This paper presents the application of a kernel particle filter for 3D body tracking in a video stream acquired from a single uncalibrated camera. Using intensity-based and color...
This paper considers the application of a low-force robotic manipulator to guide a human user’s movement to locate a tool at a predetermined position or to move a tool along a p...
Abstract— In robot-assisted interventions, providing a surgeon with haptic information regarding contacts made between surgical instruments and tissue can improve task performanc...
Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moalle...
– Virtual fixtures are virtual constraints that enhance human performance in motion tasks. They can either confine and/or guide a user’s motion. In this paper, we use a commerc...
Henry C. Lin, Keith Mills, Peter Kazanzides, Grego...
— This paper addresses the multiple tasks performing issues for redundant nonholonomic mobile manipulators. An extended gradient projection redundancy resolution scheme is propos...