— This paper is about the autonomous control of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and the particular considerations required to allow proper control while towing a 100-mete...
Michael R. Benjamin, David Battle, Donald P. Eicks...
— In this paper, we address the problem of automatic grasp generation for robotic hands where experience and shape primitives are used in synergy so to provide a basis not only f...
Abstract— This paper discusses the design and current capabilities of a new software tool, dVC, capable of simulating planar systems of bodies experiencing unilateral contacts wi...
Stephen Berard, Jeffrey C. Trinkle, Binh Nguyen, B...
— In human-machine collaborative systems, robot joint compliance and human-input dynamics lead to involuntary tool motion into undesired regions. To correct this, a set of method...
Abstract— This paper describes an investigation into the adaptive control of autonomous mobile sensor platforms for providing oceanographic sampling. Mobile sensor platforms prov...
Donald P. Eickstedt, Michael R. Benjamin, Ding Wan...
Many successful indoor mapping techniques employ frame-to-frame matching of laser scans to produce detailed local maps, as well as closing large loops. In this paper, we propose a ...
Abstract— Today most robots interact with the surroundings only with their end-effectors. However there are many benefits to utilizing contact along the entire length of robot b...
Abstract— We address general filtering problems on the Euclidean group SE(3). We first generalize, to stochastic nonlinear systems evolving on SE(3), the particle filter of Li...
— This paper introduces a novel algorithm for haptic interaction with an adaptive simulation of articulated-body dynamics. Our algorithm has a multi-threaded structure, which all...
— Legged robots are by nature strongly non-linear, high-dimensional systems whose full complexity permits neither tractable mathematical analysis nor comprehensive numerical stud...
Samuel Burden, Jonathan Clark, Joel Weingarten, Ha...