- This paper describes the design and fabrication of a low cost, solar powered mobile robot to support a variety of scientific missions on the Antarctic plateau during the austral ...
Laura E. Ray, Alexander D. Price, Alexander D. Str...
— Imitation is a powerful mechanism for transferring knowledge from an instructor to a na¨ıve observer, one that is deeply contingent on a state of shared attention between the...
Aaron P. Shon, David B. Grimes, Chris Baker, Matth...
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
— In this paper we present a mathematical model of the TRIKKE, a human-powered scooter produced by Trikke Tech Inc. The Trikke is a three-wheeled, single-rider vehicle that can b...
— This paper presents an approach for haptic rendering of topological constraints to users operating serial virtual linkages. In the proposed approach, a haptic device controller...
Daniela Constantinescu, S. E. Salcudean, Elizabeth...
- The Atacama Desert of northern Chile may be the most lifeless place on Earth, yet where the desert meets the Pacific coastal range desiccation-tolerant micro-organisms are known ...
David Wettergreen, Nathalie Cabrol, James Teza, Pa...
— We present a fast method for solving rigid body contact problems with friction, based on optimizations incorporated into Lemke’s algorithm for solving linear complementarity ...