ROBOTICA
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
This paper studies the mechanical configuration and the periodic gaits of multi-legged locomotion systems based on its kinematic and dynamic models. The purpose is to determine the...
SMA
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in developing geometric algorithms for kinematic computations. The aim of this paper is to present the notion of kinematic c...
CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper presents a sensitivity analysis of the Orthoglide, a 3-DOF translational Parallel Kinematic Machine. Two complementary methods are developed to analyze its sensitivity ...
CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
This work investigates new kinematic features of parallel manipulators. It is well known that parallel manipulators admit generally several direct kinematic solutions for a given ...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
We study the kinematic geometry of general 3-RPR planar parallel robots with actuated base joints. These robots, while largely overlooked, have simple direct kinematics and large ...
IJCAI
1989
14 years 21 days ago
1989
t ion which is much more abstract than a place vocabulary, the kinematic topology. Kinematic topology does not define qualitative inference rules, but provides a characterization o...
ISMB
1994
14 years 25 days ago
1994
Wepresent algorithms for kinematic manipulation of molecular chains subject to fixed bond lengths and bond angles. They are useful for calculating conformations of a molecule subj...
MVA
2007
14 years 28 days ago
2007
We present a system to automatically assess the functional performance of stroke survivors along axes defined by the Arm Motor Ability Test (AMAT). The upper body motion of seven...
ICRA
1993
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1993
IEEE
A method is presented for autonomous kinematic calibrationof the RSI 6-DOFhand controller,a two-loopparallel mechanism comprised of three 6-DOF arms with potentiometers on the firs...
IROS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
— A “Discretely Actuated Robotic Manipulator”, or “D-ARM”, is any member of a class of robotic manipulators powered by actuators that have only discrete positional stable...