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Bending and kissing: Computing self-contact configurations of planar loops with revolute joints

Document Type

Conference Paper

Abstract

In recent work, we introduced the notion of a construction tree of simplices for a linkage L under distance constraints, and showed that the deformation space DSpace(L) of such an L (i.e., its configuration space CSpace(L) modulo rigid motions of ambient space respecting all system specifications) carries geometrically-defined simplex-based parameters that endow it with a "practically piecewise-convex" structure. Here we present parametrizations of contact deformations of planar loops with revolute joints. We show that the bending and kissing loci, which include the self-contact subspace DSContact (generally as a strict subset) can be efficiently described by triangle-based parameters. These results further demonstratethe effectiveness of the simplex-based approach. © 2009 IEEE.

Publication Title

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Publication Date

2009

First Page

1346

Last Page

1351

ISSN

1050-4729

ISBN

9781424427895

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152180

APA Citation

Han, L., Rudolph, L., Dorsey-Gordon, S., Glotzer, D., Menard, D., Moran, J., & Wilson, J. R. (2009, May). Bending and kissing: Computing self-contact configurations of planar loops with revolute joints. In 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 1346-1351). IEEE.

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