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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Modeling of a closed loop cable-conduit transmission system
— Many surgical robots use cable-conduit pairs in a pull-pull configuration to actuate the instruments and transmit power into the patient’s body. Friction between the cable an...
Varun Agrawal, William J. Peine, Bin Yao
ICRA
2006
IEEE
136views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptive Torque Control of Electro-rheological Fluid Brakes used in Active Knee Rehabilitation Devices
- This paper describes the development of an Adaptive Non-linear PI Torque Control for electro-rheological fluid (ERF) based variable resistance brakes that are used in compact and...
Jason Nikitczuk, Abhimanyu Das, Harsh Vyas, Brian ...
CGF
2007
135views more  CGF 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Prediction of Individual Non-Linear Aging Trajectories of Faces
Represented in a Morphable Model, 3D faces follow curved trajectories in face space as they age. We present a novel algorithm that computes the individual aging trajectories for g...
Kristina Scherbaum, Martin Sunkel, Hans-Peter Seid...
RTSS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Decentralized Utilization Control in Distributed Real-Time Systems
Many real-time systems must control their CPU utilizations in order to meet end-to-end deadlines and prevent overload. Utilization control is particularly challenging in distribut...
Xiaorui Wang, Dong Jia, Chenyang Lu, Xenofon D. Ko...
BMCBI
2006
194views more  BMCBI 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Novel metaheuristic for parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamic biological systems
Background: We consider the problem of parameter estimation (model calibration) in nonlinear dynamic models of biological systems. Due to the frequent ill-conditioning and multi-m...
Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez, Jose A. Egea, Julio R. ...