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Vijay Kumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering
and Applied Mechanics, GRASP Laboratory, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. E-mail: vijay.kumar@
grasp.upenn.edu.
Peter Corke, School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology,
Australia. E-mail: Peter.Corke@qut.edu.au.
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