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Pedro Neto

4 accepted papers

2018

Reducing the Computational Complexity of Mass-Matrix Calculation for High DOF Robots

IROS 2018poster

Increasingly, robots have more degrees of freedom (DOF), imposing a need for calculating more complex dynamics. As a result, better efficiency in carrying out dynamics computations is becoming more important. In this study, an efficient method for computing the joint space inertia matrix (JSIM) for…

Cited by 11SourceScholar
2015

InchwormClimber: A light-weight biped climbing robot with a switchable magnet adhesion unit

IROS 2015poster

This article presents an inchworm climbing robot that is designed with switchable magnets and a single DOF arm. The InchwormClimber works on ferromagnetic structures and consumes little energy when climbing and can descend safely with almost zero energy consumption. Furthermore, considering the crit…

Cited by 22SourceScholar
2015

Switchable magnets for robotics applications

IROS 2015poster

The goal of this work is to study the application of switchable magnets (SM) for climbing robots. A switchable magnet is a device which uses moving permanent magnets to change the magnetic flux path and switch on or off the magnetic attraction force. In our work we used Comsol Multiphysics, a physic…

Cited by 18SourceScholar