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ICRA
1998
IEEE
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An Approach to Reduction of Hysteresis in Smart Materials
This paper addresses the problem of reducing the hysteresis found in the actuation of most smart materials. They are divided in two groups: systems with no saturation (e.g. piezoe...
Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernández, Vincent Hayward
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Position Estimation Using Principal Components of Range Data
1 sensors is to construct a structural description from sensor data and to match this description to a previously acquired model [Crowley 85]. An alternative is to project individu...
James L. Crowley, Frank Wallner, Bernt Schiele
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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A General Theory for Positioning and Orienting 2D Polygonal or Curved Parts using Intelligent Motion Surfaces
: In this paper we present novel algorithms to compute quasi-static and dynamic equilibrium positions and orientations (if any) of 2D polygonal or curved parts placed on general sh...
Murilo G. Coutinho, Peter M. Will
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Integrating Dependent Sensory Data
In sensory data fusion and integration consideration, sensor independence is a common assumption. In this paper, we demonstrated the impact of including dependent information in s...
Albert C. S. Chung, Helen C. Shen
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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The Isoconditioning Loci of A Class of Closed-Chain Manipulators
The subject of this paper is a special class of closedchain manipulators. First, we analyze a family of twodegree-of-freedom (dof) five-bar planar linkages. Two Jacobian matrices ...
Damien Chablat, Philippe Wenger, Jorge Angeles
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Working Modes and Aspects in Fully Parallel Manipulators
The aim of this paper is to characterize the notion of aspect in the workspace and in the joint space for parallel manipulators. In opposite to the serial manipulators, the parall...
Damien Chablat, Philippe Wenger
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Gripper Design Guidelines for Modular Manufacturing
This paper describes guidelines for the design of grippers for use in modular manufacturing workcells. Gripper design is an important and often overlooked aspect of the design of ...
Greg C. Causey, Roger D. Quinn
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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A Multi-Loop Robust Navigation Architecture for Mobile Robots
This paper describes a multi-loop, modular navigation architecture for mobile robots whose structure allows the execution of most types of navigation tasks in a highly robust mann...
José Castro, Vítor Santos, M. Isabel...