– We present the design of an all-accelerometer inertial measurement unit (IMU). The IMU forms part of an intelligent hand-held microsurgical instrument that senses its own motio...
Wei Tech Ang, Pradeep K. Khosla, Cameron N. Rivier...
This paper presents a navigation framework which enables multiple mobile robots to attain individual goals, coordinate their actions and work safely and reliably in a highly dynam...
Kai Oliver Arras, Roland Philippsen, Nicola Tomati...
— In this paper, a novel design approach for the development of robot hands is presented. This approach, that can be considered alternative to the “classical” one, takes into...
Luigi Biagiotti, Fabrizio Lotti, Claudio Melchiorr...
Abstract— This paper describes Atlas, a hybrid metrical/topological approach to SLAM that achieves efficient mapping of large-scale environments. The representation is a graph o...
Michael Bosse, Paul M. Newman, John J. Leonard, Ma...
This paper presents the fabrication and the testing of piezoelectric unimorph actuators with embedded piezoelectric sensors which are meant to be used for the actuation of the Mic...
Domenico Campolo, Ranjana Sahai, Ronald S. Fearing