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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
A Biomechanically Motivated Two-Phase Strategy for Biped Upright Balance Control
- Balance maintenance and upright posture recovery under unexpected environmental forces are key requirements for safe and successful co-existence of humanoid robots in normal huma...
Muhammad Abdallah, Ambarish Goswami
IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Fast and Stable Learning of Quasi-Passive Dynamic Walking by an Unstable Biped Robot based on Off-Policy Natural Actor-Critic
— Recently, many researchers on humanoid robotics are interested in Quasi-Passive-Dynamic Walking (Quasi-PDW) which is similar to human walking. It is desirable that control para...
Tsuyoshi Ueno, Yutaka Nakamura, Takashi Takuma, To...
HAPTICS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A whole-arm tactile display system
This work presents a new tactile display device for relaying contact information to locations along the human arm. The system is intended to facilitate teleoperation of whole-arm ...
Riichiro Tadakuma, Robert D. Howe
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Teaching and Working with Robots as a Collaboration
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
Cynthia Breazeal, Guy Hoffman, Andrea Lockerd
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
From manipulation to communicative gesture
— Assisting humans in their daily lives requires robots to be proficient in manual tasks and effective in communicating states/intentions with human users. This paper advocates ...
Shichao Ou, Roderic A. Grupen