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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Hierarchical Control for Self-assembling Mobile Trusses with Passive and Active Links
— This paper explores the space of active modular trusses, ranging from a passive truss with one independent active climbing module to fully self-reconfiguring dynamically contr...
Carrick Detweiler, Marsette Vona, Keith Kotay, Dan...
ISER
1997
Springer
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14 years 20 days ago
Preliminary Experiments with an Actively Tuned Passive Dynamic Running Robot
: This paper describes experiments with an electrically actuated one legged hopping robot, the ARL Monopod. While a spring-mass system, comprised of the leg spring and the body mas...
Mojtaba Ahmadi, Martin Buehler
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Unifying Passivity Framework for Network Flow Control
—Network flow control regulates the traffic between sources and links based on congestion, and plays a critical role in ensuring satisfactory performance. In recent studies, glob...
John T. Wen, Murat Arcak
RSS
2007
121views Robotics» more  RSS 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Passivity-Based Switching Control for Stabilization of Wheeled Mobile Robots
— We propose a novel switching control law for the posture stabilization of a wheeled mobile robot, that utilizes the (energetic) passivity of the system’s open-loop dynamics w...
Dongjun Lee
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Turning dynamics and passive damping in flapping flight
—we investigated whether flapping flight has an inherent stability by analyzing the inertial and aerodynamic effects of flapping wings on body dynamics. Based on wing and body ki...
Bo Cheng, Steven N. Fry, Qingfeng Huang, William B...