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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Highly compliant and self-tightening docking modules for precise and fast connection of self-reconfigurable robots
― This paper describes a new docking system called Compliant-And-Self-Tightening (CAST) developed as an effective and efficient connector for joining and releasing modules of sel...
Behrokh Khoshnevis, Peter M. Will, Wei-Min Shen
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Design of all-accelerometer inertial measurement unit for tremor sensing in hand-held microsurgical instrument
– We present the design of an all-accelerometer inertial measurement unit (IMU). The IMU forms part of an intelligent hand-held microsurgical instrument that senses its own motio...
Wei Tech Ang, Pradeep K. Khosla, Cameron N. Rivier...
SAB
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Robust Locomotion Control of Modular Robots
Designing controllers for modular robots is difficult due to the distributed and dynamic nature of the robots. In this paper fractal gene regulatory networks are evolved to control...
Payam Zahadat, David Johan Christensen, Ulrik Pagh...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Designing tangibles for children: what designers need to know
New forms of tangible and spatial child computer interaction and supporting technologies can be designed to leverage the way children develop intelligence in the world. In order t...
Alissa Nicole Antle
ROBVIS
2001
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
The Background Subtraction Problem for Video Surveillance Systems
This paper reviews papers on tracking people in a video surveillance system, and it presents a new system designed for being able to cope with shadows in a real-time application f...
Alan M. McIvor, Qi Zang, Reinhard Klette