We explore the possibility of recognizing the surface material from a single image with unknown illumination, given the shape of the surface. Model-based PCA is used to create a lo...
The performance of robotic and prosthetic hands in unstructured environments is severely limited by their having little or no tactile information compared to the rich tactile feed...
Nicholas Wettels, Veronica J. Santos, Roland S. Jo...
— Palpation of tissue and organs during a surgical procedure provides clinicians with valuable information for diagnosis and surgical planning. In robot-assisted minimally invasi...
We introduce a process-centric ontological approach to relate observed properties to geo-processes that influence those observations. These relations are used to handle semantic he...
We present a perception system, called Artisan, that semi-automatically builds 3-D models of a robot’s workspace. Range images are acquired with a scanning laser rangefinder an...
Andrew Edie Johnson, Regis Hoffman, Jim Osborn, Ma...