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SIGGRAPH
1993
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Sensor-actuator networks
Sensor-actuator networks (SANs) are a new approach for the physically-based animation of objects. The user supplies the configuratíon of a mechanical system that hás been augmen...
Michiel van de Panne
SMC
2007
IEEE
125views Control Systems» more  SMC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
A hierarchical strategy for learning of robot walking strategies in natural terrain environments
– In this paper, we present a hierarchical methodology that learns new walking gaits autonomously while operating in an uncharted environment, such as on the Mars planetary surfa...
Ayanna M. Howard, Lonnie T. Parker
IROS
2006
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Tele-assembly in Wide Remote Environments
Telepresence offers considerable advantages in the remote execution of maintenance assignments. In this work a telepresence system is presented that allows to perform assembly tas...
Angelika Peer, Bartlomiej Stanczyk, Ulrich Unterhi...
CDC
2009
IEEE
148views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
13 years 6 months ago
Position estimation and fall detection using visual receding horizon estimation
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the position of a human in the image frame and to use this information to diagnose falls. A nonholonomic locomotion model describes the dis...
Damien Brulin, Estelle Courtial, Guillaume Alliber...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Hormone-based control for self-reconfigurable robots
Self-reconfigurable or metamorphic robots can change their individual and collective shape and size to meet operational demands. Since these robots are constructed from a set of a...
Wei-Min Shen, Yimin Lu, Peter M. Will