— This paper discusses the whole arm manipulation allowing the contact state transition. For manipulation of an object under fully constrained, the contact state transition becom...
— In this paper a dynamic contact model is presented based on the Johnson-Kendall-Roberts (JKR) theory. The classical JKR model captures the contact properties for the quasi-stat...
Abstract— In this paper we show how to optimize the computational cost and maximize consistency in EKF-based SLAM for large environments. We combine Local Mapping with Map Joinin...
— In order to guide the design of a new multi-robot system, we seek to evaluate two different designs of audio direction sensor. We have implemented a simple but useful audio pro...
- Robot companions need to be able to constantly acquire knowledge about new objects for instance in order to detect them in the environment. This ability is necessary since it is ...
- This paper presents the design of an experimental system for assembly applications in space. The prototypical application is the assembly of mechanical trusses. The system used a...
– We consider a search for a target moving within a known indoor environment partitioned into interconnected regions of varying sizes. The knowledge of target location is describ...
— To realize adaptive and robust manipulation, a robot should have several sensing modalities and coordinate their outputs to achieve the given task based on underlying constrain...