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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Task Assignment with Dynamic Perception and Constrained Tasks in a Multi-Robot System
Alessandro Farinelli, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi, ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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RoboTrikke: A Novel Undulatory Locomotion System
— In this paper we present a mathematical model of the TRIKKE, a human-powered scooter produced by Trikke Tech Inc. The Trikke is a three-wheeled, single-rider vehicle that can b...
Sachin Chitta, Peng Cheng, Emilio Frazzoli, Vijay ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Haptic Rendering of Topological Constraints to Users Manipulating Serial Virtual Linkages
— This paper presents an approach for haptic rendering of topological constraints to users operating serial virtual linkages. In the proposed approach, a haptic device controller...
Daniela Constantinescu, S. E. Salcudean, Elizabeth...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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On the Control of Robots with Visco-Elastic Joints
Alessandro De Luca, Riccardo Farina, Pasquale Luci...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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First Experiments in the Robotic Investigation of Life in the Atacama Desert of Chile
- The Atacama Desert of northern Chile may be the most lifeless place on Earth, yet where the desert meets the Pacific coastal range desiccation-tolerant micro-organisms are known ...
David Wettergreen, Nathalie Cabrol, James Teza, Pa...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Fast Implementation of Lemke's Algorithm for Rigid Body Contact Simulation
— We present a fast method for solving rigid body contact problems with friction, based on optimizations incorporated into Lemke’s algorithm for solving linear complementarity ...
John E. Lloyd
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Pressure Monitoring System in Gastro-Intestinal Tract
Youngin Kim, Geunho Lee, Sukho Park, Byungkyu Kim,...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Constraint-Based Motion Planning of Deformable Robots
Abstract— We present a novel algorithm for motion planning of a deformable robot in a static environment. Given the initial and final configuration of the robot, our algorithm ...
Russell Gayle, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Sensorless Robot Collision Detection and Hybrid Force/Motion Control
Alessandro De Luca, Raffaella Mattone