by Martina Megaro | Jul 21, 2014 | Digital Fabrication, Robotics
ChaCra: An Interactive Design System for Rapid Character Crafting We propose an interactive design system for rapid crafting of planar mechanical characters. July 21, 2014ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2014 Authors Vittorio...
by Martina Megaro | Jul 21, 2014 | Robotics
Interactive Design of Modular Tensegrity Characters We present a computational design tool for creating physical characters using tensegrities — networks of rigid and elastic elements that are in static equilibrium. July 21, 2014ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium...
by Martina Megaro | Jul 20, 2014 | Robotics
Concurrent Optimization of Mechanical Design and Locomotion Control of a Legged Robot This paper introduces a method to simultaneously optimize design and control parameters for legged robots to improve the performance of locomotion based tasks. July 20, 2014CLAWAR...
by Martina Megaro | Jul 1, 2014 | Visual Computing, Wireless Communication and Ubiquitous Computing
Enhanced Power Saving Mode for Low-Latency Communication in Multi-Hop 802.11 Networks The Future Internet of Things (IoT) will connect billions of battery-powered radio-enabled devices. Some of them may need to communicate with each other and with Internet gateways...
by Martina Megaro | Jun 25, 2014 | Rendering, Visual Computing
Error analysis of estimators that use combinations of stochastic sampling strategies for direct illumination We present a theoretical analysis of error of many combinations of Monte Carlo estimators used in image synthesis. June 25, 2014Eurographics Symposium on...
