ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper addresses some performance limits of the kneed and non-kneed passive-dynamic walking machines discovered by McGeer [10, 11]. Energetic inefficiency is measured by the s...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper deals with a displacement control method of a piezoelectric actuator (piezo). When voltage is applied to a piezo with conductive plates attached on both ends of the pie...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
We present a new active vision technique called zoom tracking. Zoom tracking is the continuous adjustment of a camera's focal length in order to keep a constant-sized image of...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
Recently a planetary rover returned important scientific information from Mars. More ambitious missions are planned. New planning methods are required that allow rovers to explore...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper proposes a hybrid approach to the problem of collision avoidance for indoor mobile robots. The DWA (short for: model-based dynamic window approach) integrates sensor dat...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
We present a setup to control a four- nger anthropomorphic robot hand using a dataglove. To be able to accurately use the dataglove we implemented a nonlinear learning calibration...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper describes the innovative use of a genetic algorithm to solve the grasp synthesis problem for multifingered robot hands. The goal of our algorithm is to select a `best&#...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
In order to facilitate the testing and evaluation of control strategies and operator environments designed for heavy duty hydraulic machines, an excavator simulator has been devel...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper discusses how we integrated our 3D car tracking approach with the lane following module RALPH on the Navlab autonomous vehicles, obtaining a hybrid vision system that t...