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High-Dimensional Area of Acceptance Using Discrete Methods

by neckConnector Design November 8, 2018November 8, 201835 Comments

Physical connectors with self-aligning geometry aid in the docking process for many robotic and automatic control systems such as robotic self-reconfiguration and air-to-air refueling. This self-aligning geometry provides a wider range of acceptable error tolerance in relative pose between the two rigid objects, increasing successful docking chances. A new, more discrete flooding method for analyzing …

Quori: A Community-Driven Modular Research Platform for Sociable Human-Robot Interaction

by Andrew SpecianHRI, Quori March 8, 2018September 15, 2021Comments are Disabled

Quori is a novel, affordable, socially interactive robot platform for enabling non-contact human-robot interaction (HRI) research in both in-lab and “in the wild” experimental settings. The package will be complete with an expressive projected face, two gesturing arms, bowing spine, and an omnidirectional base. Software is provided at the low-level to control the hardware and at the high-level, provided by Semio, to easily generate versatile social behaviors.

Modular Robot Connector Acceptance by Configuration Space Analysis

by neckConnector Design July 13, 2017November 7, 2018One Comment

Attachment and detachment between modules is critical for modular robot reconfiguration, and is a key design area for these systems. By re-purposing the interpretation of a well-known motion planning tool in configuration space obstacles for its encoding of contact geometry, we have developed a method for determining a metric of the region of error tolerance …