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Origami Multistabilty: From Single Vertices to Metasheets [PDF]
, 2014 We explore the surprisingly rich energy landscape of origami-like folding planar structures. We show that the configuration space of rigid-paneled degree-4 vertices, the simplest building blocks of such systems, consists of at least two distinct branches
Chen, Bryan Gin-ge +3 more
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IEEE Access, 2019 Commercial floor cleaning robots face significant challenges in accessing convex and narrow corners due to their fixed and regular morphologies. To overcome this, we develop a new class of self-reconfigurable floor cleaning robot, hTetrakis, which is ...
Rizuwana Parween +4 more
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Simultaneous Parameter Calibration, Localization, and Mapping [PDF]
, 2012 The calibration parameters of a mobile robot play a substantial role in navigation tasks. Often these parameters are subject to variations that depend either on changes in the environment or on the load of the robot. In this paper, we propose an approach
Grisetti, Giorgio +2 more
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Modeling and Analysis of hHoneycomb—A Polyhex Inspired Reconfigurable Tiling Robot
Energies, 2019 hHoneycomb, a self-reconfigurable cleaning robot, is designed based on tiling theory, to overcome the significant challenges experienced by the fixed morphology cleaning robot.
Rizuwana Parween +6 more
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IEEE Access, 2020 Fixed morphology cleaning robots mostly face significant challenges in cleaning the narrow spaces in the environment. To overcome this, a new class of self-reconfigurable floor cleaning robot, hTetrakis, made of four triangular blocks, is built.
Rizuwana Parween +3 more
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Sequencing of 15 622 Gene-bearing BACs Clarifies the Gene-dense Regions of the Barley Genome [PDF]
, 2015 Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) possesses a large and highly repetitive genome of 5.1 Gb that has hindered the development of a complete sequence. In 2012, the International Barley Sequencing Consortium released a resource integrating whole-genome shotgun ...
Alpert, Matthew +48 more
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Autonomous Capabilities for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Conducting Radiological Response: Findings from a High-fidelity Discovery Experiment [PDF]
, 2014 This article presents a preliminary work domain theory and identifies autonomous vehicle, navigational, and mission capabilities and challenges for small unmanned aerial systems (SUASs) responding to a radiological disaster.
Duncan, Brittany, Murphy, Robin
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Active Self-Assembly of Algorithmic Shapes and Patterns in Polylogarithmic Time [PDF]
, 2013 We describe a computational model for studying the complexity of self-assembled structures with active molecular components. Our model captures notions of growth and movement ubiquitous in biological systems.
Chen, Ho-Lin +5 more
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Motion Planning for Multilink Robots by Implicit Configuration-Space Tiling [PDF]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2016 We study the problem of motion-planning for free-flying multi-link robots and develop a sampling-based algorithm that is specifically tailored for the task. Our work is based on the simple observation that the set of configurations for which the robot is self-collision free is independent of the obstacles or of the exact placement of the robot.
Salzman, Oren +2 more
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Non-locality of the phenomenon of consciousness according to Roger Penrose [PDF]
, 2016 Roger Penrose is known for his proposals, in collaboration with Stuart Hameroff, for quantum action in the brain. These proposals, which are still recent, have a prior, less known basis, which will be studied in the following work.
Herce, Rubén
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