ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2010
IEEE
— Soft robotic systems have applications in industrial, medical, and security applications. Many applications require these robots to be small and lightweight. One challenge in d...
RAS
2007
13 years 12 months ago
2007
Developing real robots that can exploit dynamic interactions with the environment requires the use of actuators whose behaviour can vary from high stiffness to complete complianc...
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
—Advanced automotive control applications such as steer-by-wire are typically implemented as distributed systems comprising many embedded processors, sensors, and actuators inter...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
- This paper presents a new control method to drive an array of wet Shape Memory Alloy actuators utilizing a Matrix Manifold and Valve system (MMV). The MMV architecture allows a v...
HAPTICS
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
In this paper, we present a new portable force feedback device for surgery simulations. Dielectric elastomer spring roll linear actuators for this device were manufactured, and ch...
ICANNGA
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
We propose a generalized model with configurable discretizer actuators as a solution to the problem of the discretization of massive numerical datasets. Our solution is based on a ...