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The Grasping Problem: Toward Task-Level Programming for an Articulated Hand
(1990-05-01)
This report presents a system for generating a stable, feasible, and reachable grasp of a polyhedral object. A set of contact points on the object is found that can result in a stable grasp; a feasible grasp is found ...
Vision, Instruction, and Action
(1990-04-01)
This thesis describes Sonja, a system which uses instructions in the course of visually-guided activity. The thesis explores an integration of research in vision, activity, and natural language pragmatics. Sonja's visual ...
Correction of Force Errors for Flexible Manipulators in Quasi-Static Conditions
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1990-12)
This paper deals with the problem of controlling the interactions of flexible manipulators with their environment. For executing a force control task, a manipulator with intrinsic (mechanical) compliance has some advantages ...
An Experiment in Knowledge Acquisition for Software Requirements
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1990-05)
The Requirements Apprentice (RA) is a demonstration system that assists a human analyst in the requirements-acquisition phase of the software-development process. By applying the RA to another example it has been possible ...
Don't Loop, Iterate
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1990-05)
I describe an iteration macro for Common Lisp that is clear, efficient, extensible, and in excellent taste.