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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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A Low-Cost Easy Operation 4-Cable Driven Parallel Manipulator
- In this paper the design and kinematic performances are presented for a low-cost parallel manipulator with 4 driven cables. It has been conceived for an easy programming of its o...
Erika Ottaviano, Marco Ceccarelli, Alessio Paone, ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Hill-Based Model as a Myoprocessor for a Neural Controlled Powered Exoskeleton Arm - Parameters Optimization
— The exoskeleton robot, serving as an assistive device worn by the human (orthotic), functions as a humanamplifier. Setting the human machine interface (HMI) at the neuro-muscu...
Ettore Cavallaro, Jacob Rosen, Joel C. Perry, Step...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Performance of Surgical Robots with Automatically Generated Spatial Virtual Fixtures
– Our recent work on robotic surgical assistant systems has led us to develop a method to generate spatial motion constraints associated with complex 3D geometry for controlling ...
Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Kinematics and Dexterity Analysis for a Novel 3-DOF Translational Parallel Manipulator
— A new three degrees of freedom translational parallel manipulator (TPM) with fixed actuators, called a general 3-PRC TPM, is proposed in this paper. The mobility of the manipu...
Yangmin Li, Qingsong Xu
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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A Fast Online Gait Planning with Boundary Condition Relaxation for Humanoid Robots
— A fast online gait planning method is proposed. Based on an approximate dynamical biped model whose mass is concentrated to COG, general solution of the equation of motion is a...
Tomomichi Sugihara, Yoshihiko Nakamura
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Almost-Sensorless Localization
— We present a localization method for robots equipped with only a compass, a contact sensor and a map of the environment. In this framework, a localization strategy can be descr...
Jason M. O'Kane, Steven M. LaValle
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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A Model-Based Framework for Optimal Measurements in Machine Tool Calibration
— Calibration is the procedure of quantifying mechanical deficiencies of machines and compensating them by appropriate adjustment. This paper introduces a modelbased measurement...
D. Brunn, Uwe D. Hanebeck
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Motion Emergency of Humanoid Robots by an Attractor Design of a Nonlinear Dynamics
— The human motions are generated through the interaction between the body and its environments. The information processing system defines the current motion using the signal fe...
Masafumi Okada, Kenta Osato, Yoshihiko Nakamura
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Control Synthesis for Dynamic Contact Manipulation
— We explore the control synthesis problem for a robot dynamically manipulating an object in the presence of multiple frictional contacts. Contacts occur both between the object ...
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Michael Erdmann, Matthew ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Optimal Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of AGV Transportation Systems Based on Various Transportation Demands
— In this paper, two designs for optimal Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) transportation systems are presented. One is vertical and the other, horizontal. For these systems, the hy...
Satoshi Hoshino, Jun Ota, Akiko Shinozaki, Hideki ...