— Computing optimal paths for mobile robots is an interesting and important problem. This paper presents a method to compute the shortest path for a differential-drive mobile rob...
—The manipulation of flexible and limp sheet materials is a common requirement in many industrial manufacturing processes, however automation of even simple tasks involving these...
— The contact tonometer is commonly used for measuring the internal eye pressure to diagnose glaucoma. However, the conventional eye pressure measurement is valid only under the ...
Yuichi Kurita, Yoshichika Iida, Roland Kempf, Mako...
–This paper presents a novel affect-sensitive human-robot interaction framework for rehabilitation of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The overall aim is to enable t...
Changchun Liu, Karla Conn, Nilanjan Sarkar, Wendy ...
— We describe two new sampling strategies for Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering SLAM. The strategies, called fixed-lag roughening and the block proposal distribution, both e...
— Modeling and scheduling of cluster tools are critical to improving the productivity and to enhancing the design of wafer processing flows and equipment for semiconductor manuf...
Jingang Yi, Shengwei Ding, Dezhen Song, Mike Tao Z...
— A new method is presented for controlling the lateral foot placement of a simple 3D compass biped model. The method is based on the fact that, in the limit cycle, the gait is t...
Abstract— We improve and adjust usual weak calibration techniques to the case of stereo video microscopes : Harris detector using a simplex optimization method for feature points...
—The goal of this work is to determine the object correspondence between a sketched map and the scene depicted by the sketch, e.g., as represented by an occupancy grid map (OGM) ...
Abstract— In this paper we present a design study and technical specifications of a high performance robotic manipulator to be used for ball catching experiments using commercia...