On the representation of contact states between curved objects

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3589-3595

  Luo, Qi ^a   Staffetti, Ernesto ^a   Xiao, Jing ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT STATES; CURVATURES; CURVED OBJECTS; POLYHEDRAL OBJECTS;

ALGEBRA; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAPTIC INTERFACES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; THEOREM PROVING; TOPOLOGY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042556383     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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