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JIRS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Exploring the Effect of Obscurants on Safe Landing Zone Identification
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 ...
Keith W. Sevcik, Noah Kuntz, Paul Y. Oh
ICRA
2009
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient C-space and cost function updates in 3D for unmanned aerial vehicles
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...
Sebastian Scherer, Dave Ferguson, Sanjiv Singh
ICRA
2009
IEEE
414views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
A Stereoscopic Fibroscope for Camera Motion and 3D Depth Recovery During Minimally Invasive Surgery
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 ...
SMI
2008
IEEE
198views Image Analysis» more  SMI 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Anisotropic geodesic distance computation for parametric surfaces
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 ...
Joon-Kyung Seong, Won-Ki Jeong, Elaine Cohen
ICRA
2009
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Tissue property estimation and graphical display for teleoperated robot-assisted surgery
— Palpation of tissue and organs during a surgical procedure provides clinicians with valuable information for diagnosis and surgical planning. In robot-assisted minimally invasi...
Tomonori Yamamoto, Balázs Vágvö...