Ian D. Walker
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TRUNK AND TENTACLE "CONTINUUM" ROBOTS
M. Hannan and I.D. Walker.
Elephant's Trunk Robot Arm:
Video Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA),
Seoul, Korea, May 2001.
Related paper.
Several generations of the OCTARM Continuum Manipulator:
B. Jones, W. McMahan, M. Pritts, V. Chitrakaran, D. Dienno, M. Grissom, M. Csencsits, C.D. Rahn, D. Dawson, and I.D. Walker. Grasping, Manipulation, and Exploration Tasks with the OCTARM Continuum Manipulator. Video Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, USA, May 2006.
B. Holbrook, M. Csencsits, W. McMahan, V. Chitrakaran, M. Grissom, M. Pritts, B. Jones, C.D. Rahn, and I.D. Walker. Field Experiments with the OCTARM Continuum Manipulator. Video Proceedings, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing, China, October 2006.
Octopus-Inspired Grasp Synergies. Video Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Bangkok, Thailand, February 2009. For more details, see paper.
Application to
ship refueling. Proceedings, IEEE/RSJ International Conference
on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, October 2015. For more details, see
paper.
Some Long, Thin Continuum Robots:
M.M. Tonapi, I.S. Godage, and I.D. Walker, Design, Modeling and Performance Evaluation of a Long and Slim Continuum Robotic Cable. Proceedings 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, IL, September 2014, pp. 2852-2859. Paper.
M.B. Wooten, C.G. Frazelle, I.D. Walker, A.D. Kapadia, and J.H. Lee. Exploration and Inspection with Vine-Inspired Continuum Robots. Proceedings 2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, May 2018, pp. 5526-5533. Related Video.
Variable Topology Tree-Inspired Robot:
M.C. Lastinger, S. Verma, A.D. Kapadia, and I.D. Walker.
TREE: A Variable-Topology, Branching Continuum Robot.
Proceedings 2019 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
Montreal, May 2019, pp. 5365-5371.
Related Video.
ANIMATED WORKSPACE ENVIRONMENTS
K.E. Green, I.D. Walker, L. Gugerty, J. Witte, H. Houayek, M. Kwoka, J. Johnson, K. Teja, and N. Kuntzi. A Robotic Wall and Reconfigurable Desk Supporting Working Life in a Digital Society. Video Proceedings, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St Louis, MO, USA, October 2009. Related paper.
S. Verma, P. Gonthina, Z. Hawks, D. Nahar, Y. Wang, C. de Aguiar, J.O. Brooks, I.D. Walker, and K.E. Green. Design and Evaluation of Two Robotic Furnishings Partnering with Each Other and Their Users to Enable Independent Living. Proceedings 12th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, New York City, NY, May 2018, pp. 35-44. Paper.
G. Shafer, S. Fullerton, A, Vijaykumar, I.D. Walker, and K.E. Green.
Words Become Worlds: The LIT ROOM, A Literacy Support Tool at Room Scale.
Proceedings ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Hong Kong, June 2018, pp. 511-522.
Paper.