JCC
2007
14 years 10 days ago
2007
: This essay provides a perspective on several issues in valence bond theory: the physical significance of semilocal bonding orbitals, the capability of valence bond concepts to e...
JCB
2006
14 years 12 days ago
2006
The task of finding saddle points on potential energy surfaces plays a crucial role in understanding the dynamics of a micromolecule as well as in studying the folding pathways of...
CORR
2008
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
2008
Springer
Adiabatic quantum annealing is a paradigm of analog quantum computation, where a given computational job is converted to the task of finding the global minimum of some classical po...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
— This paper proposes a new contact deformation model between a hemispherical soft fingertip and an object. First, we develop our proposed contact model, in which an elastic pot...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract— We derive a local minimum of an elastic potential energy due to the deformation of a hemispherical soft fingertip, and propose a quasi-static manipulation algorithm us...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
— This paper provides that an elastic force and an elastic potential energy due to the deformation of soft fingers, which are previously derived, can be calculated into straight...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
: In this paper, the dynamic model for planar continuum manipulators that was presented in our previous work is extended to include new terms reflecting the effects of potential e...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— This paper proposes a piercing based grasping by using the self-tightening effect of objects with elasticity. We suppose a piercing hand with palm where the piercing motion by ...