A sensorhas been developedandsuccessfullyimplementedto automaterobotcalibration.Its simpledesignmakesit ideal forproduction environments. It works in conjunction with precision sph...
Ordinarily, a robot workspace has insufficientroom to allow the setup of multiple applications simultaneously. As a result, it is common practice to use modular fixtures which hol...
Accuracy of a machine is determined by its ability to position and orient a tool at a prescribed point. Usually this positioning is performed by positioning joints (actuators The ...
To demonstrate the flexibility and portability of both a schema-based software architecture and a message-passing hardware architecture, the two were integrated within a very shor...
Thomas R. Collins, Ronald C. Arkin, Andrew M. Hens...
This paper investigates the problem of "formclosure"for three-fingered grasps of polygonal objects under various combinations of contact models at the contact points. We...
In this paper weshowthat parallel search techniquesderived fromtheir sequential counterparts can enable the solution of instances of the robot motionplanningproblemthat are comput...