Abstract— This paper considers two approaches to the problem of vision and self-localization on a mobile robot. In the first approach, the perceptual processing is primarily bot...
— This paper describes a truss climbing robot we designed and prototyped. The robot has a minimalist design with three motive degrees of freedom that enable movement along three-...
— In this paper, based on a passivity framework, admittance-type and hybrid-type delay-compensated communication channel models are introduced, which warrant different bilateral ...
Arash Aziminejad, Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Pat...
— Trotting and galloping allow a quadruped to rapidly traverse rough terrain. Modeling this motion, which is only dynamically stable, is of importance for legged robot operation ...
Abstract—Automation has long been recognized as an important goal in AFM (Atomic Force Microscope) nanomanipulation research. For the precise manipulation of small particles with...
Babak Mokaberi, Jaehong Yun, Michael Wang, Aristid...
— In this paper, we investigate the use of a spherical projection model to search for optimal visual features for visual servoing. A new minimal set of three visual features is p...
— We present a strategy for generating real-time relative depth maps of an environment from optical flow, under general motion. We achieve this using an insect-inspired hemisphe...
Abstract— Creatively misquoting Thomas Hobbes, the process of software debugging is nasty, brutish, and all too long. This holds all the more true in robotics, which frequently i...
Benjamin D. Rister, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pi...
— We introduce the Oracular Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (OPOMDP), a type of POMDP in which the world produces no observations; instead there is an “oracle,” ...