— Haptic interface devices and teleoperation masters are multiple degree of freedom devices manipulated by an operator to generate realtime motion commands to simulated environme...
This paper presents a method for building analytical contact models for soft fingers. Friction constraints are derived based on general expressions for non-planar contacts of ela...
Matei T. Ciocarlie, Claire Lackner, Peter K. Allen
The inverse dynamics problem for a robotic manipulator is to compute the torques needed at the joints to drive it along a given trajectory; it is beneficial to be able to learn th...
Kian Ming Adam Chai, Christopher K. I. Williams, S...
Augmented surgical manipulation tasks can be viewed as a sequence of smaller, steps driven primarily by the surgeon's input. These steps can be abstracted as controlled intera...
Rajesh Kumar 0001, Gregory D. Hager, Aaron C. Barn...
—The manipulation of flexible and limp sheet materials is a common requirement in many industrial manufacturing processes, however automation of even simple tasks involving these...