— This paper addresses the use of robotic tissue manipulation in medical needle insertion procedures to improve targeting accuracy and to help avoid damaging sensitive tissues. T...
Meysam Torabi, Kris K. Hauser, Ron Alterovitz, Vin...
— As robots are gradually leaving highly structured factory environments and moving into human populated environments, they need to possess more complex cognitive abilities. Not ...
Georgios Lidoris, Klaas Klasing, Andrea Maria Baue...
— To operate outdoors or on non-flat surfaces, mobile robots need appropriate data structures that provide a compact representation of the environment and at the same time suppo...
Abstract— Simulation has been the dominant research methodology in wireless and sensor networking. When mobility is added, real-world experimentation is especially rare. However,...
David Johnson, Tim Stack, Russ Fish, Daniel Montra...
— We present a fast GPU-based algorithm to approximate the Swept Volume (SV) boundary of arbitrary polygon soup models. Despite the extensive research on calculating the volume s...
Jesse C. Himmelstein, Etienne Ferre, Jean-Paul Lau...