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Closed-Form Minkowski Sums of Convex Bodies with Smooth Positively Curved Boundaries
Sipu Ruan, Gregory S. Chirikjian
This article derives closed-form parametric formulas for the Minkowski sums of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space with boundaries that are smooth and have all positive…
Closed-Form Parametric Equation for the Minkowski Sum of Ellipsoids in and Associated Volume Bounds
Gregory S. Chirikjian, Bernard Shiffman
General results on convex bodies are reviewed and used to derive an exact closed-form parametric formula for the Minkowski sum boundary of arbitrary ellipsoids in -dimension…
Can I lift it? Humanoid robot reasoning about the feasibility of lifting a heavy box with unknown physical properties
Yuanfeng Han, Ruixin Li, Gregory S. Chirikjian
A robot cannot lift up an object if it is not feasible to do so. However, in most research on robot lifting, "feasibility" is usually presumed to exist a priori. This paper propose…
Can I Pour into It? Robot Imagining Open Containability Affordance of Previously Unseen Objects via Physical Simulations
Hongtao Wu, Gregory S. Chirikjian
Open containers, i.e., containers without covers, are an important and ubiquitous class of objects in human life. In this letter, we propose a novel method for robots to "imagine"…
Multi-person 3D Pose Estimation in Crowded Scenes Based on Multi-View Geometry
He Chen, Pengfei Guo, Pengfei Li +2
Epipolar constraints are at the core of feature matching and depth estimation in current multi-person multi-camera 3D human pose estimation methods. Despite the satisfactory perfor…
A Mosquito Pick-and-Place System for PfSPZ-based Malaria Vaccine Production
Henry Phalen, Prasad Vagdargi, Mariah L. Schrum +8
The treatment of malaria is a global health challenge that stands to benefit from the widespread introduction of a vaccine for the disease. A method has been developed to create a…
Lateral oscillation and body compliance help snakes and snake robots stably traverse large, smooth obstacles
Qiyuan Fu, Sean W. Gart, Thomas W. Mitchel +3
Snakes can move through almost any terrain. Similarly, snake robots hold the promise as a versatile platform to traverse complex environments like earthquake rubble. Unlike snake l…