Currently, robotic rotorcraft determine landing zones based on visual cues or predetermined GPS waypoints. Missions such as perch-and-stare or cargo delivery demand the ability to ...
When operating in partially-known environments, autonomous vehicles must constantly update their maps and plans based on new sensor information. Much focus has been placed on devel...
This paper introduces a stereoscopic fibroscope
imaging system for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) and
examines the feasibility of utilizing images transmitted from the
distal ...
David Noonan, Peter Mountney, Daniel Elson, Ara ...
The distribution of geometric features is anisotropic by its nature. Intrinsic properties of surfaces such as normal curvatures, for example, varies with direction. In this paper ...
— Palpation of tissue and organs during a surgical procedure provides clinicians with valuable information for diagnosis and surgical planning. In robot-assisted minimally invasi...