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HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Interactive Haptic Rendering of High-Resolution Deformable Objects
We present an efficient algorithm for haptic rendering of deformable bodies with highly detailed surface geometry using a fast contact handling algorithm. We exploit a layered defo...
Nico Galoppo, Serhat Tekin, Miguel A. Otaduy, Mark...
ACII
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Affective Touch for Robotic Companions
Abstract. As robotic platforms are designed for human robot interaction applications, a full body sense of touch, or “sensitive skin,” becomes important. The Huggable is a new ...
Walter Dan Stiehl, Cynthia Breazeal
KRMED
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Axioms for parthood and containment relations in bio-ontologies
To fix the semantics of different kinds of parthood relations we require axioms which go beyond those characterizing partial orderings. I formulate such axioms and show their impl...
Thomas Bittner
RAS
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Self-reconfigurable M-TRAN structures and walker generation
The M-TRAN is a modular robot capable of both three-dimensional self-reconfiguration and whole body locomotion. Introducing regularity in allowed structures reduced difficulties o...
Haruhisa Kurokawa, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, A...
TROB
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Tactile Sensing - From Humans to Humanoids
—Starting from human ‘sense of touch’, this work reviews the state of tactile sensing in robotics. Following a brief discussion on the physiology, coding, tactile data transf...
R. S. Dahiya, Giorgio Metta, M. Valle, Giulio Sand...