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2000
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Experiments in Fingertip Perception of Surface Discontinuities
In this paper we present the results of experiments that explore the ability of the human fingertip to detect haptically simulated first-order and second-order surface discontinui...
Steven C. Venema, Blake Hannaford
IJRR
2000
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Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva
Sebastian Thrun, Michael Beetz, Maren Bennewitz, W...
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2000
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Computing Immobilizing Grasps of Polygonal Parts
A. Frank van der Stappen, Chantal Wentink, Mark H....
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2000
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Dynamics Simulation and Controller Interfacing for Legged Robots
Dynamics simulation can play a critical role in the engineering of robotic control code, and there exist a variety of strategies both for building physical models and for interact...
Jesse A. Reichler, Fred Delcomyn
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2000
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Singularity-Consistent Parameterization of Robot Motion and Control
The inverse kinematics problem is formulated as a parameterized autonomous dynamical system problem, and respective analysis is carried out. It is shown that a singular point of w...
Dragomir N. Nenchev, Yuichi Tsumaki, Masaru Uchiya...
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2000
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Collision-Free Trajectory Planning for a 3-DoF Robot with a Passive Joint
Kevin M. Lynch, Naoji Shiroma, Hirohiko Arai, Kazu...
IJRR
2000
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Tactile Sensing: New Directions, New Challenges
Over the past three decades, tactile sensing has developed into a sophisticated technology. There has been a longstanding and widely held expectation that tactile sensors would ha...
Mark H. Lee
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2000
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Development and Control of a Holonomic Mobile Robot for Mobile Manipulation Tasks
International Journal of Robotics Research, v 19, n 11, p. 1066-1074 Mobile manipulator systems hold promise in many industrial and service applications including assembly, inspec...
Robert Holmberg, Oussama Khatib
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2000
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Reconstructing the Shape of a Deformable Membrane from Image Data
In this paper, we study the problem of determining a mathematical description of the surface defined by the shape of a membrane based on an image of it and present an algorithm fo...
Nicola J. Ferrier, Roger W. Brockett