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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Beyond Range Sensing: XYZ-RGB Digitizing and Modeling
This talk will review the progress and the evolution of the development of range sensing techniques at the NRC laboratories. Essentially a 3 0 imaging project at the beginning, it...
Marc Rioux, François Blais, J.-Angelo Beral...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Active Measurement of Contact Sounds
We describe a novel system for robotic measurement of contact sounds. This system is well suited for acquiring impulse-response sound models. A brief explanation of the sound mode...
Joshua L. Richmond, Dinesh K. Pai
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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A Robotic Stepper for Retraining Locomotion in Spinal-Injured Rodents
We describe the design and testing of a robotic system to assist locomotion training of spinal-injured rodents. The goal of the system is to control and quantify spatialtemporal p...
David J. Reinkensmeyer, Wojciech K. Timoszyk, Ray ...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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An Algebraic Solution to the Problem of Collision Detection for Rigid Polyhedral Objects
This paper describes a new collision detection algorithm designed for interactive manipulation in virtual environments. Making some assumptions on objects motion, the collision ti...
Stephane Redon, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Sabine Coqui...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Motion-Decoupled Internal Force Control in Grasping with Visco-Elastic Contacts
Robotic grasps exhibiting visco-elastic contact interactions with the manipulated object are considered. Control of internalforces is investigated. Thepresence of nonnegligible co...
Domenico Prattichizzo, Paolo Mercorelli
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Force-Based Motion Editing for Locomotion Tasks
This paper describes a fast technique for modifying motion sequences for complex articulated mechanisms in a way that preserves physical properties of the motion. This technique i...
Nancy S. Pollard, Fareed Behmaram-Mosavat
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Unknown Object Grasping Using Statistical Pressure Models
Douglas P. Perrin, Christopher E. Smith, Osama Mas...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Forward Dynamics Algorithms for Multibody Chains and Contact
We describe a framework for derivation of several forward dynamics algorithms used in robotics. The framework is based on formulating an augmented system and performing block matr...
Dinesh K. Pai, Uri M. Ascher, Paul G. Kry
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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Stable Running in a Quadruped Robot with Compliant Legs
We have constructed an autonomous quadruped, Scout II, which features only a hip actuator and a passive compliant prismatic joint per leg. In this paper we demonstrate in simulati...
Didier Papadopoulos, Martin Buehler