Burrowing robots are a class of robot that can move themselves in soil for geotechnical site investigation, search and rescue, sensor deployment, inspection, monitoring, and construction purposes. Moving through soil is a challenging problem due to high drag force and complex underground environments. Many organisms adopt well-evolved strategies and...

Automatic face authorization has long been an active research area for its wide potential applications, such as law enforcement, security access, and man-machine interaction. Among various approaches, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) to face imaging is now a cornerstone in face recognition. However, 2-D face recognition methods are in general unable...

Currently under development are several advances in robotics technology that allow humans to connect with robotic devices such as exoskeletons and physical rehabilitation machines. Robots are currently in development for use in the Military, Medical, Industrial and Private sectors. However there is a problem facing the human users attempting to couple...