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Meysam Torabi, Kris K. Hauser, Ron Alterovitz, Vin...
— In this paper we present a novel framework for computing the steady turning motion of a robotic fish undergoing periodic body and/or tail deformation. Taking the turning radiu...
Qingsong Hu, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Lihong Xu, Xiaobo ...
— Palpation of tissue and organs during a surgical procedure provides clinicians with valuable information for diagnosis and surgical planning. In robot-assisted minimally invasi...
— We propose a system for improving grasping using fingertip optical proximity sensors that allows us to perform online grasp adjustments to an initial grasp point without requi...
Kaijen Hsiao, Paul Nangeroni, Manfred Huber, Ashut...
Software entropy is a phenomenon where repeated changes gradually degrade the structure of the system, making it hard to understand and maintain. This phenomenon imposes challenge...