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CDC
2008
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
How springs can help to stabilize motions of underactuated systems with weak actuators
In the field of robotics the energy spent for actuation is always an issue. It is often the case that some desired motions cannot be achieved by the robot due to limitations in act...
Uwe Mettin, Pedro X. La Hera, Leonid B. Freidovich...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
81views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Hardware-in-the-loop Test Rig for Designing Near-earth Aerial Robotics
Today’s aerial robots are being tasked to fly in nearEarth environments such as caves, forests and buildings. The lack of flight data and performance metrics poses a gap that ...
Vefa Narli, Paul Y. Oh
ICRA
1998
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
Antenna Pointing for High Bandwidth Communications from Mobile Robots
This paper discusses the challenge of achieving high bandwidth, distant range wireless communication from mobile robots by way of antenna tracking. In the case of robots traversin...
Deepak Bapna, Eric Rollins, Alex Foessel, William ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
An untethered magnetically actuated micro-robot capable of motion on arbitrary surfaces
Abstract— This work presents an untethered magnetic microrobot with dimensions of 250 µm x 130 µm x 100 µm. The robot is composed entirely of neodymium-iron-boron fabricated u...
Steven Floyd, Chytra Pawashe, Metin Sitti
IROS
2009
IEEE
207views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Estimation of camera motion with feature flow model for 3D environment modeling by using omni-directional camera
Abstract— Map information is important for path planning and self-localization when mobile robots accomplish autonomous tasks. In unknown environments, mobile robots should gener...
Ryosuke Kawanishi, Atsushi Yamashita, Toru Kaneko