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ICRA
2008
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Kinematics and calibration of active cannulas
Abstract— Active cannulas are remotely actuated thin continuum robots with the potential to traverse narrow and winding environments without relying on “guiding” environmenta...
Robert J. Webster III, Joseph M. Romano, Noah J. C...
ICANNGA
2007
Springer
100views Algorithms» more  ICANNGA 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Genetic-Greedy Hybrid Approach for Topological Active Nets Optimization
In this paper we propose a genetic and greedy algorithm combination for the optimization of the Topological Active Nets (TAN) model. This is a deformable model used for image segme...
José Santos, Óscar Ibáñ...
MICCAI
2002
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Stochastic Finite Element Framework for Cardiac Kinematics Function and Material Property Analysis
Abstract. A stochastic finite element method (SFEM) based framework is proposed for the simultaneous estimation of cardiac kinematics functions and material model parameters. While...
Pengcheng Shi, Huafeng Liu
IJRR
2010
144views more  IJRR 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Equilibrium Conformations of Concentric-tube Continuum Robots
Robots consisting of several concentric, preshaped, elastic tubes can work dexterously in narrow, constrained, and/or winding spaces, as are commonly found in minimally invasive s...
D. Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster III, Gregory S....
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Towards liquid service oriented architectures
The advent of Cloud computing platforms, and the growing pervasiveness of Multicore processor architectures have revealed the inadequateness of traditional programming models base...
Daniele Bonetta, Cesare Pautasso