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CVGIP
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Tetrahedral and hexahedral invertible finite elements
We review an algorithm for the finite element simulation of elastoplastic solids which is capable of robustly and efficiently handling arbitrarily large deformation. In fact, the ...
Geoffrey Irving, Joseph Teran, Ronald Fedkiw
SIMPAR
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Simulating Vehicle Kinematics with SimVis3D and Newton
This paper discusses the simulation of vehicle kinematics with SimVis3D and the Newton Game Dynamics Engine. As running example a Pioneer1 like robot is used. First its differenti...
Jens Wettach, Daniel Schmidt 0004, Karsten Berns
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 19 days ago
Extremal Trajectories for Bounded Velocity Mobile Robots
Previous work [3, 6, 9, 8, 7, 1] has presented the time optimal trajectories for three classes of non-holonomic mobile robots: steered cars that can only go forwards, steered cars...
Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
What is the relationship between behavioral robustness and distributed mechanisms of cognitive behavior?
There is a growing trend in the cognitive sciences to conceive of cognitive behavior as being distributed across brain, body and environment. However, the implications of such dist...
Jose A. Fernandez-Leon, Tom Froese
AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Adaptation and Learning in Animated Creatures
This paper is concerned with synthetic agents interacting with virtual environments, called animated creatures. The animated creatures are articulated graphical gures that are eq...
Jiming Liu, Hong Qin, Yuan Yan Tang, Y. T. Wu