ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— The asymmetry of a bevel-tip needle results in the needle naturally bending when it is inserted into soft tissue. In this study we present a mechanics-based model that calculat...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— A new lossy compression method is proposed for haptic (force, velocity) data as exchanged in bilateral telepresence systems. The method is based on the passive extrapolative co...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper presents the estimation of the force applied by a piezocantilever dedicated to micromanipulation/microassembly. Relative to previous works, the presented method avoi...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— In this paper we present a novel framework for computing the steady turning motion of a robotic fish undergoing periodic body and/or tail deformation. Taking the turning radiu...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract— Using autonomous mobile robots to patrol environments for detecting intruders is a topic of increasing relevance for its possible applications. A large part of strategi...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— One of the common applications for outdoor robots is to follow a path in large scale unknown environments. This task is challenging due to the intensive memory requirements to ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— In the Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) project a mobile robot is developed, which is capable of finding its way to a given destination in an unknown urban environment. An exemp...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract— We consider the task of planning smooth trajectories for robot motion. In this paper we make two contributions. First we present a method for cubic spline optimization;...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We present a new type of oriented bounding surfaces, which is particularly well suited for shortest distance computations. The bounding surfaces are obtained by considering sur...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— For mobile platforms with steerable standard wheels it is necessary to precisely coordinate rotation and steering angle of their wheels. An established approach to ensure this ...