Abstract— Today most robots interact with the surroundings only with their end-effectors. However there are many benefits to utilizing contact along the entire length of robot b...
— Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is probably an important milestone in the cardiac surgery history. This technique is currently made possible thanks to the use o...
Wael Bachta, Pierre Renaud, Edouard Laroche, Anton...
- A five-fingered robot hand having almost an equal number of DOF to the human hand is developed. The robot hand is driven by a unique method using ultrasonic motors and elastic el...
Augmented surgical manipulation tasks can be viewed as a sequence of smaller, steps driven primarily by the surgeon's input. These steps can be abstracted as controlled intera...
Rajesh Kumar 0001, Gregory D. Hager, Aaron C. Barn...
Abstract— We provide a method for planning under uncertainty for robotic manipulation by partitioning the configuration space into a set of regions that are closed under complia...