Sciweavers

120 search results - page 12 / 24
» icra 1999
Sort
View
ICRA
1999
IEEE
75views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
13 years 11 months ago
Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Robot Prostheses: Initial Experiments
This paper describes the objectives of this project, which are to design artificial limbs that are lightweight, compact and dexterous, that mimic human anatomy and maintain a high...
Charles Pfeiffer, Kathryn J. De Laurentis, Constan...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
133views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
13 years 11 months ago
Control of Flexible-Manufacturing Workcells Using Extended Moore Automata
The modeling and control flexible-manufacturing workcells (FMCs) has generally been performed in a hierarchical structure, where at the highest level they have been modeled as dis...
A. Ramírez, C. Sriskandarajah, Beno Benhabi...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
106views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
13 years 11 months ago
MINERVA: A Second-Generation Museum Tour-Guide Robot
This paper describes an interactive tour-guide robot, which was successfully exhibited in a Smithsonian museum. During its two weeks of operation, the robot interacted with more t...
Sebastian Thrun, Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgard,...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
145views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
13 years 11 months ago
Real Time Position Estimation for Mobile Robots by Means of Sonar Sensors
This paper presents a fast localisation algorithm for autonomous mobile agents in dynamic environments based on the definition of a new very small sized landmark type. These landm...
Cristina Urdiales, Antonio Bandera, R. Ron, Franci...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
96views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
13 years 11 months ago
Fluorescent Dye Based Optical Position Sensing for Planar Linear Motors
Industrial Sawyer motor technology has existed for nearly three decades, traditionally being operated as open-loop positioners. Such systems can attain micron level motion resolut...
Gregory A. Fries, Alfred A. Rizzi, Ralph L. Hollis