IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - June 2013 - 1
Vol. 20, No. 2 JUNE 2013
ISSN 1070-9932
http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram
FEATURES
DRAWINGS OF FISH AND ROBOTIC FISH BY
STUDENTS. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
24 Robotic Adventure Across the Pacific
313 Days, 17,486 Nautical km, One Cyclone,
Millions of Data Points
By John Appelgren
31 An Attraction Toward Engineering Careers
The Story of a Brooklyn Outreach Program for K-12 Students
By Nicole Abaid, Vladislav Kopman, and Maurizio Porfiri
40 GPU-Mapping
Robotic Map Building with Graphical Multiprocessors
By Diego Rodriguez-Losada, Pablo San Segundo, Miguel Hernando,
Paloma de la Puente, and Alberto Valero-Gomez
52 Testing Multirobot Algorithms
SAETTA: A Small and Cheap Mobile Unit
By Maurizio Di Rocco, Francesco La Gala, and Giovanni Ulivi
63 NIST and IEEE Challenge for MagPieR
The Fastest Mobile Microrobots in the World
By Ioan Alexandru Ivan, Gilgueng Hwang, Joel Agnus, Nicolas Chaillet,
and Stéphane Régnier
ON THE COVER
Cover image is of Fontaine
Maru, one of Liquid Robotics'
four PacX Wave Gliders, on its
journey from San Francisco to
Japan. For more information,
see page 24.
IMAGE COURTESY OF LIQUID ROBOTICS
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2013.2255417
71 Humanoids Grow a Spine
The Effect of Lateral Spinal Motion
on the Mechanical Energy Efficiency
By Jimmy Or
82 Robot Tactile Sensing
Gold Nanocomposites as Highly Sensitive
Real-Time Optical Pressure Sensors
By Alessandro Massaro, Fabrizio Spano, Paolo Cazzato, Carola La Tegola,
Roberto Cingolani, and Athanassia Athanassiou
91 Geometric Relations Between
Rigid Bodies (Part 2)
From Semantics to Software
By Tinne De Laet, Steven Bellens, Herman Bruyninckx,
and Joris De Schutter
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