3 accepted papers
In electrically actuated robots most energy losses are due to the heating of the actuators. This energy loss can be greatly reduced with parallel elastic actuators, by optimizing the elastic element such that it delivers most of the required torques. Previously used optimization methods relied on pa
Robots would perform better when their mechanical structure is specifically designed for their designated task, for instance by adding spring mechanisms. However, designing such mechanisms, which match the dynamics of the robot with the task, is hard and time consuming. To assist designers, a platfo
Sampling-based kinodynamic planners, such as rapidly-exploring random trees (RRTs), pose two fundamental challenges: computing a reliable (pseudo-)metric for the distance between two random nodes, and computing a steering input to connect the nodes. The core of these challenges is a two point bounda