— A novel design of a mobile parallel manipulator (MPM), which is composed by a multi-degree of freedom (DOF) parallel robot and an autonomous wheeled mobile platform, is propose...
Abstract – This paper presents a real-time 3D ultrasoundguided robotic system, designed to autonomously navigate a surgical instrument to surgeon-specified target points. The sys...
Jeffrey A. Stoll, Paul M. Novotny, Robert D. Howe,...
In this paper we describe novel metrics measuring complexity in self-organising networks. The metrics are investigated within the context of decentralised inspections, developed a...
– The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES) is the first autonomous machine vision system used to safely land a robotics payload on another ...
Andrew Edie Johnson, Reg G. Willson, Jay Goguen, J...
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated distributed systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on another hand, is a shared collaborative environment constr...