Publications
Actuated Dynamic Walking in a Seven-Link Biped Robot
D.J. Braun, Jason E. Mitchell and M. Goldfarb, Actuated Dynamic Walking in a Seven-Link Biped Robot, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 17, no.1, pp. 147-156, 2012.
Optimal torque and stiffness control in compliantly actuated robots
D.J. Braun, F. Petit, F. Huber, S. Haddadin, P. Smagt, A. Albu-Schaffer, and S. Vijayakumar, Optimal torque and stiffness control in compliantly actuated robots, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Algarve, PT, pp. 2801–2808, October 2012.
Exploiting variable physical damping in rapid movement tasks
A. Radulescu, M. Howard, D.J. Braun, and S. Vijayakumar, Exploiting variable physical damping in rapid movement tasks, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Kaohsiung, TWN, pp. 141–148, July 2012. Best Student Paper Award Finalist.
Exploiting variable stiffness in explosive movement tasks
D.J. Braun, M. Howard, and S. Vijayakumar, Exploiting variable stiffness in explosive movement tasks, Robotics: Science and Systems, Los Angeles, USA, June/July 2011.
Constraint-based equilibrium and stiffness control of variable stiffness actuators
M. Howard, D.J. Braun, and S. Vijayakumar, Constraint-based equilibrium and stiffness control of variable stiffness actuators, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, CN, pp. 5554–5560, May 2011.
A Control Approach for Actuated Dynamics Walking in Biped Robots
D.J. Braun, M. Goldfarb, A Control Approach for Actuated Dynamics Walking in Biped Robots, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1292-1303, 2009.
Elimination of Constrained Drift in the Numerical Simulation of Constrained Dynamical Systems
D.J. Braun, M. Goldfarb, Elimination of Constrained Drift in the Numerical Simulation of Constrained Dynamical Systems, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 198, no. 37-40, pp. 3151-3160, 2009.
A Controller for Dynamic Walking in Bipedal Robots
D.J. Braun and M. Goldfarb, A controller for dynamic walking in bipedal robots, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, USA, pp. 2916–2921, October 2009.
Actuated Dynamic Walking in Biped Robots: Control Approach, Robot Design and Experimental Validation
D. J. Braun, J. E. Mitchell, and M. Goldfarb, Actuated dynamic walking in biped robots: Control approach, robot design and experimental validation, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Paris, FR, pp. 237–242, December 2009.
Adaptive steady-state stabilization for nonlinear dynamical systems
D.J. Braun, Adaptive steady-state stabilization for nonlinear dynamical systems, Physical Review E, vol. 78, no. 1, p. 016213, 2008. Reply to Comment on Adaptive steady-state stabilization for nonlinear dynamical systems, Physical Review E, vol. 81, no. 1, p. 038202, 2010.
On the Optimal Shape of a Compressed Rotating Rod with Shear and Extensibility
D.J. Braun, On the Optimal Shape of Compressed Rotating Rod with Shear and Extensibility, International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 131–139, 2008.
The Strongest Rotating Rod
T. M. Atanackovic and D.J. Braun, The strongest rotating rod, International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, vol. 40, pp. 747–754, 2005.