— The paper describes an indoor helicopter testbed that allows implementing and testing of bio-inspired control algorithms developed from scientific studies on insects. The heli...
Shuo Han, Andrew D. Straw, Michael H. Dickinson, R...
— Many everyday human skills can be framed in terms of performing some task subject to constraints imposed by the environment. Constraints are usually unobservable and frequently...
Matthew Howard, Stefan Klanke, Michael Gienger, Ch...
— We describe the design of a juggling robot that is able to vertically bounce a completely unconstrained ball without any sensing. The robot consists of a linear motor actuating...
Abstract— Research on humanoid robots for use in servicing tasks, e.g. fetching and delivery, attracts steadily more interest. With ”Rollin’ Justin” a mobile robotic system...
—In this video, a novel tracked mechanism for sideways motion is presented. The tracked mechanism is of circular cross-section and has active rolling axes at the center of the ci...
— Heterogeneous multi-robot networks require novel tools for applications that require achieving and maintaining formations. This is the case for distributing sensing devices wit...
Brian Stephen Smith, Jiuguang Wang, Magnus Egerste...
Abstract— This paper considers the problem of sensor selfcalibration in mobile robotics by only using a single point feature (e.g. a source of light). In particular, the problem ...
— This paper addresses the problem of cooperative localization (CL) under severe communication constraints. Specifically, we present minimum mean square error (MMSE) and maximum...
Nikolas Trawny, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Georgios ...
— In mobile robotics, the segmentation of range data is an important prerequisite to object recognition and environment understanding. This paper presents an algorithm for realti...
—we investigated whether flapping flight has an inherent stability by analyzing the inertial and aerodynamic effects of flapping wings on body dynamics. Based on wing and body ki...
Bo Cheng, Steven N. Fry, Qingfeng Huang, William B...