— Designing a localization system for a low-cost robotic consumer product poses a major challenge. In previous work, we introduced Vector Field SLAM [5], a system for simultaneou...
Jens-Steffen Gutmann, Gabriel Brisson, Ethan Eade,...
— Humans are adept at grasping different objects robustly for different tasks. Robotic grasping has made significant progress, but still has not reached the level of robustness ...
Ravi Balasubramanian, Ling Xu, Peter D. Brook, Jos...
— This paper presents a soft robotic platform that exhibits peristaltic locomotion. The design principle is based on the unique antagonistic arrangement of radial/circular and lo...
Sangok Seok, Cagdas Denizel Onal, Robert J. Wood, ...
—Autonomous man-portable robots have the potential to provide a wide range of new capabilities for both military and civilian applications. Previous research in autonomy for smal...
: The overall safety integrity of a safety critical system, comprising both software and hardware, is typically specified quantitatively, e.g., in terms of failure rates. However, ...