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JCC
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Valence bond theory for chemical dynamics
: 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...
Donald G. Truhlar
JCB
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
A Stability Boundary Based Method for Finding Saddle Points on Potential Energy Surfaces
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...
Chandan K. Reddy, Hsiao-Dong Chiang
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Non-classical Role of Potential Energy in Adiabatic Quantum Annealing
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...
Arnab Das
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Local Minimum of Elastic Potential Energy on Hemispherical Soft Fingertip
— 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...
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Quasi-Static Manipulation with Hemispherical Soft Fingertip via Two Rotational Fingers
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...
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Study on Hemispherical Soft-fingered Handling for fine Manipulation by Minimum D.O.F. Robotic Hand
— 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...
Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai
IROS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
New dynamic models for planar extensible continuum robot manipulators
: 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...
Enver Tatlicioglu, Ian D. Walker, Darren M. Dawson
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Piercing based grasping by using self-tightening effect
— 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 ...
Naoki Sakamoto, Mitsuru Higashimori, Toshio Tsuji,...