The need for high precision robotic systems has increased in recent years. Examples include automated assembly of complex electro-mechanical products such as disk drives, cameras,...
Manual materials handling of heavy loads is a common cause of low back disorders. The manual manipulation of a heavy load may be made more comfortable by constraining the load to ...
The need to register data is abundant in applications such as: world modeling, part inspection and manufacturing, object recognition, pose estimation, robotic navigation, and reve...
This paper describes the application of a computational vision sensor to active binocular tracking. The sensor outputs are used to control the vergence angles of the two cameras a...
The locomotor controller for walking, running, swimming, and flying animals is based on a Central Pattern Generator (CPG). Models of CPGs as systems of coupled non-linear oscillato...
M. Anthony Lewis, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Avis H. ...
We present a new localization algorithm called Sensor Resetting Localization which is an extension of Monte Carlo Localization. The algorithm adds sensor based resampling to Monte...
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) constrains instrument motions to 4 DOF by precluding lateral motion at the incision. Robotic MIS systems can interpose arbitrary mappings between ...
A robust teleoperation controller design methodfor an underwater manipulator is proposed considering the master and the underwater slave separately. To achieve transparency and st...
A practical algorithm for 3-D interpretation of images taken in a sewer by a robot-inspector is presented. Modern sewers made of concrete present regular circular structures origi...
This paper presents a randomized motion planner for kinodynamic asteroidavoidanceproblems, in which a robot must avoid collision with moving obstacles under kinematic, dynamic con...
Robert Kindel, David Hsu, Jean-Claude Latombe, Ste...