3 accepted papers
6DoF Pose estimation has been gaining increased importance in vision for over a decade however it does not yet meet the reliability and accuracy standards for mass deployment in industrial robotics. To this effect we present the Industrial Plenoptic Dataset (IPD): the first dataset for the co-evalua…
Stiffness modulators are devices that promote a novel means of actuation; they provide stiffness modulation without deliberately doing mechanical work. These type of compliant actuators may be used for human augmentation to complement co-contracted antagonistic muscles and as such reduce muscle acti…
This paper introduces an analytical approach for the design of variable stiffness mechanisms. The basis of this approach is a general model - representing the potential energy function and the physical constraints - covering the design space of variable stiffness mechanisms. Using this model, we pre…