ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
ThiJ puper addresses the issue of dynamic similarity and intensive property invariance in scaled bilateral naunipulation, and ofsers a design methodology bused on these considerat...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper addresses some performance limits of the kneed and non-kneed passive-dynamic walking machines discovered by McGeer [10, 11]. Energetic inefficiency is measured by the s...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper deals with a displacement control method of a piezoelectric actuator (piezo). When voltage is applied to a piezo with conductive plates attached on both ends of the pie...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
We present a new active vision technique called zoom tracking. Zoom tracking is the continuous adjustment of a camera's focal length in order to keep a constant-sized image of...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
Recently a planetary rover returned important scientific information from Mars. More ambitious missions are planned. New planning methods are required that allow rovers to explore...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper proposes a hybrid approach to the problem of collision avoidance for indoor mobile robots. The DWA (short for: model-based dynamic window approach) integrates sensor dat...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
We present a setup to control a four- nger anthropomorphic robot hand using a dataglove. To be able to accurately use the dataglove we implemented a nonlinear learning calibration...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper describes the innovative use of a genetic algorithm to solve the grasp synthesis problem for multifingered robot hands. The goal of our algorithm is to select a `best&#...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
ICRA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
In order to facilitate the testing and evaluation of control strategies and operator environments designed for heavy duty hydraulic machines, an excavator simulator has been devel...