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CDC
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Hybrid control of a constrained velocity unicycle with local sensing
— This paper introduces a hybrid control scheme for steering a non-holonomic agent with limited sensing capabilities and input constraints through a stationary but unknown worksp...
Apollo S. Oikonomopoulos, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
119views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
16 years 29 days ago
Progressive Clamping
—In this paper we propose the progressive clamping method to better model the kinematic anisotropy of joint limits for virtual mannequins or robots. Like recent approaches our me...
Daniel Raunhardt, Ronan Boulic
GECCO
2005
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
A theoretical analysis of the HIFF problem
We present a theoretical analysis of Watson’s Hierarchicalif-and-only-if (HIFF) problem using a variety of tools. These include schema theory and course graining, the concept of...
Nicholas Freitag McPhee, Ellery Fussell Crane
ICRA
2008
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Gecko-inspired climbing behaviors on vertical and overhanging surfaces
— The adhesive and frictional properties of dry adhesive materials can be described by a three-dimensional limit surface in the space of normal and tangential contact forces at t...
Daniel Santos, Barrett Heyneman, Sangbae Kim, Noe ...
PPOPP
2006
ACM
16 years 18 days ago
Minimizing execution time in MPI programs on an energy-constrained, power-scalable cluster
Recently, the high-performance computing community has realized that power is a performance-limiting factor. One reason for this is that supercomputing centers have limited power ...
Robert Springer, David K. Lowenthal, Barry Rountre...