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Abstract: Surgery simulation has been found very useful in surgery planning and training. In order to obtain a physically realistic surgery simulation, it is needed to treat the deformation of soft ...

Abstract: The development of wide band gap semiconductor devices, in answer to the increase in the voltage level and the power density of power electronics converters, requires the development of new ...

This repository contains a Simscape model of a quadrupeded robot able to walk on flat and inclined terrain, with a environment that presents different obstacles, and the posibility of open-loop or ...