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Robotics Journal Club
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Fall 2006: we're meeting on alternate
Fridays shortly after 12 noon in room 32-397.
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suggested reading list
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Friday, October 20 - Compressed Sensing
 | Marco Duarte, Michael Wakin, Dror Baron and Richard Baraniuk. Universal Distributed Sensing via Random Projections. Proc. International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks - IPSN, Nashville, TN, April 2006 [ pdf ] |
| Emmanuel Candès and Justin Romberg, Practical Signal Recovery from Random Projections (preprint, 2005) [ pdf ] |
Presenter: Srujan Linga
Friday, November 3 - Actuator technologies and Impedance control
| Gill Andrews Pratt. Low impedance walking robots. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2002 [ pdf ] |
Skim/optional reading:
| John M. Hollerbach, Ian W. Hunter, John Ballantyne. A Comparative Analysis of Actuator Technologies for Robotics. Robotics Review 2, 1992 [ pdf ] |
| Dale A. Lawrence. Actuator Limitations on Achievable Manipulator Impedance. ICRA 1989 [ pdf ] |
Presenter: Marty Vona
Friday, November 17 - Design of a Programmable Matter System
Ara Knaian will describe his work toward the design of a programmable matter system. The nodes are designed using the "Paintable Computing" architecture; hardware design considerations for this architecture are described in :
| Knaian, A., Greenspan, D., Butera, W., Jacobson, J., Gershenfeld, N., "Technology Evaluation for Paintable Computing and Paintable Displays," U.S. Army Natick Technical Report/TR-06/012, April 2006 [ offsite pdf ] |
(long document, reading the summary is recommended)
Presenter: Ara Knaian
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