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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Polychaete-like Undulatory Robotic Locomotion
- Polychaete annelid worms provide a biological paradigm of versatile locomotion and effective motion control, adaptable to a large variety of unstructured environmental conditions...
Dimitris P. Tsakiris, Michael Sfakiotakis, Arianna...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
WSC
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Monte Carlo methods for valuation of ratchet Equity Indexed Annuities
Equity Indexed Annuities (EIAs) are popular insurance contracts. EIAs provide the insured with a guaranteed accumulation rate on their premium at maturity. In addition, the insure...
Ming-hua Hsieh, Yu-fen Chiu
AR
2010
101views more  AR 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Novel Energy Transfer Mechanism in a Running Quadruped Robot with One Actuator per Leg
In this work we develop a novel method, or mechanism, of energy transfer in a quadruped running robot. The robot possesses only one actuator per leg, for lower weight and greater ...
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos
ISVC
2007
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
Gradient-Based Hand Tracking Using Silhouette Data
Optical motion capture can be classified as an inference problem: given the data produced by a set of cameras, the aim is to extract the hidden state, which in this case encodes t...
Paris Kaimakis, Joan Lasenby