Encyclopedia of Distances is the result of re-writing and extending our Dictionary of
Distances published in 2006 (and put online http://www. sciencedirect. com/science/book …

This book comes out of need and urgency (expressed especially in areas of Information
Retrieval with respect to Image, Audio, Internet and Biology) to have a working tool to …

A probabilistic roadmap is a network of simple paths connecting collision-free configurations
obtained by sampling a robot's configuration space at random. Several probabilistic …

This paper presents a comparative evaluation of different distance metrics and local
planners within the content of probabilistic roadmap methods for motion planning. Both C …

The synthesis of force-closure grasps on three-dimensional (3-D) objects is a fundamental
issue in robotic grasping and dextrous manipulation. In this paper, a numerical force-closure …

A set of metrics is proposed that evaluates speed and separation monitoring efficacy in
industrial robot environments in terms of the quantification of safety and the effects on …

This paper presents an obstacle avoidance method for spacecraft relative motion control. In
this approach, a connectivity graph is constructed for a set of relative frame points, which …

We present a novel and fast algorithm to compute penetration depth (PD) between two
polyhedral models for physically-based animation. Given two overlapping polyhedra, it …

We propose a new bounding volume that achieves a tunable strict convexity of a given
convex hull. This geometric operator is named sphere-tori-patches bounding volume (STP …

Penetration depth (PD) is a distance metric that is used to describe the extent of overlap
between two intersecting objects. Most of the prior work in PD computation has been …