Present developments in the natural sciences are providing enormous and challenging opportunities for various AI technologies to have an unprecedented impact in the broader scient...
Continuum robotics has rapidly become a rich and diverse area of research, with many designs and applications demonstrated. Despite this diversity in form and purpose, there exist...
Future planetary exploration missions will use cooperative robots to explore and sample rough terrain. To succeed robots will need to cooperatively acquire and share data. Here a c...
Vivek A. Sujan, Steven Dubowsky, Terrance L. Hunts...
Abstract— This paper models (large) deformations of shelllike objects under the grasping of a robot hand. Classical nonlinear theory of thin shells [21, pp. 186-194] is generaliz...
Whether they are asked to polish or assemble parts, clean the house or open doors, the future generation of robots will have to cope with contact tasks under uncertainty in a stabl...
Tine Lefebvre, Jing Xiao, Herman Bruyninckx, Gudru...