— Various methods to recognize assembly tasks using possible local displacement of objects have been proposed. To calculate this displacement, the screw theory is employed. It is...
Jun Takamatsu, Koichi Ogawara, Hiroshi Kimura, Kat...
— One of the fundamental problems of the mobile robots is self-localization, i.e. to estimate the self-position by comparing sensor data and a map. In non-stationary environments...
Kanji Tanaka, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Hongbin Zha, Eiji ...
Real-world objects exhibit rich physical interaction behaviours on contact. Such behaviours depend on how heavy and hard it is when held, how its surface feels when touched, how i...
Hiromi T. Tanaka, Kiyotaka Kushihama, Naoki Ueda, ...
−−−− Ordinary t-timed Petri Nets are used for modeling, analysis and synthesis of random topology production systems and networks. Each production system is first decompose...
George J. Tsinarakis, Kimon P. Valavanis, Nikos Ts...
The use of high performance composite materials provides a substantial performance improvement for microrobotics. Such materials have great benefits over common MEMs materials su...
Robert J. Wood, Srinath Avadhanula, M. Menon, Rona...