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ROBOCUP
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
SimRobot - A General Physical Robot Simulator and Its Application in RoboCup
This paper describes SimRobot, a robot simulator which is able to simulate arbitrary user-defined robots in three-dimensional space. It includes a physical model which is based on...
Tim Laue, Kai Spiess, Thomas Röfer
JNS
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Nonlinear Dynamics of the 3D Pendulum
A 3D pendulum consists of a rigid body, supported at a fixed pivot, with three rotational degrees of freedom. The pendulum is acted on by a gravitational force. Symmetry assumptio...
Nalin A. Chaturvedi, Taeyoung Lee, Melvin Leok, N....
ICRA
1998
IEEE
113views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
Analysis of Frictional Contact Models for Dynamic Simulation
Simulation of dynamic systems possessing unilateral frictional contacts is important to many industrial applications. While rigid body models are often employed, it is well establ...
Peter R. Kraus, Vijay Kumar, Pierre Dupont
ICRA
2000
IEEE
71views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
14 years 4 days ago
Dynamic Simulation for Grasping and Whole Arm Manipulation
We propose a novel approach to dynamic simulation of grasps that overcomes di culties due to inconsistencies in the forward dynamics problem. The key idea in the paper is a minima...
Peng Song, Masahito Yashima, Vijay Kumar
ICRA
2002
IEEE
95views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 20 days ago
Extremal Distance Maintenance for Parametric Curves and Surfaces
A new extremal distance tracking algorithm is presented for parametric curves and surfaces undergoing rigid body motion. The essentially geometric extremization problem is transfo...
Volkan Patoglu, R. Brent Gillespie