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GW
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Gesture Recognition Based on Elastic Deformation Energies
We present a method for recognizing gesture motions based on elastic deformable shapes and curvature templates. Gestures are modeled using a spline curve representation that is enh...
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Laurent Grisoni, Stefan Gheorg...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
120views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Inverse dynamics of gel robots made of electro-active polymer gel
— This paper formulates and solves the inverse dynamics problem of deformable robots made entirely of electro-active polymer gel. One of the primary difficulties with deformable...
Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, M...
IJCAI
1989
13 years 9 months ago
Integrating Knowledge-Based System and Neural Network Techniques for Robotic Skill Acquisition
This paper describes an approach to robotic control that is patterned after models of human skill acquisition. The intent is to develop robots capable of learning how to accomplis...
David Handelman, Stephen Lane, Jack Gelfand
IROS
2007
IEEE
105views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamics of step-climbing with deformable wheels and applications for mobile Robotics
—Wheeled-mobile robots operating in human environments typically encounter small steps. Surmounting steps is normally not considered when determining peak torque needs, yet it ca...
Alexander Wilhelm, William W. Melek, Jan Paul Huis...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
194views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Continuous collision detection for non-rigid contact computations using local advancement
Abstract— We present a novel algorithm to perform continuous collision detection(CCD) between non-rigid, deformable models using local advancement. Given the initial and final c...
Min Tang, Young J. Kim, Dinesh Manocha