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1997
Springer
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Mechanical Design and Control of a High-Bandwidth Shape Memory Alloy Tactile Display
: We have constructed a tactile shape display which can be used to convey small-scale shapes in teleoperation and virtual environments. A line of 10 pins spaced 2 mm on center are ...
Parris S. Wellman, William J. Peine, Gregg Favalor...
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1997
Springer
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Evaluation of Impedance and Teleoperation Control of a Hydraulic Mini-Excavator
: A position-based impedance controller has been implemented on a mini-excavator. Its performance and an approach to evaluate its stability robustness for given environment impedan...
S. E. Salcudean, S. Tafazoli, K. Hashtrudi-Zaad, P...
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1997
Springer
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Extracting Robotic Part-mating Programs from Operator Interaction with a Simulated Environment
We describe an integrated system for programming part-mating and contact tasks using simulation. A principal goal of this work is to make robotic programming easy and intuitive fo...
John E. Lloyd, Dinesh K. Pai
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1997
Springer
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FREEDOM-7: A High Fidelity Seven Axis Haptic Device with Application to Surgical Training
: A seven axis haptic device, called the Freedom-7, is described in relation to its application to surgical training. The generality of its concept makes it also relevant to most o...
Vincent Hayward, P. Gregorio, Oliver R. Astley, St...
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1997
Springer
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Interactive Visual and Force Rendering of Human-Knee Dynamics
The kinematics and force/displacement relationships of elements of biological joints are notoriously difficult to understand. In particular, the human knee has bearing surfaces o...
Randy E. Ellis, P. Zion, C. Y. Tso
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1997
Springer
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Preliminary Experiments with an Actively Tuned Passive Dynamic Running Robot
: This paper describes experiments with an electrically actuated one legged hopping robot, the ARL Monopod. While a spring-mass system, comprised of the leg spring and the body mas...
Mojtaba Ahmadi, Martin Buehler
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1997
Springer
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Adaptive Visual Servoing for Various Kinds of Robot Systems
Abstract: This paper propose an adaptive visual servoing method consisting of an on-line estimator of the robot/image Jacobian matrix and a feedback/feedforward controller for unca...
Koh Hosoda, Minoru Asada