Abstract Many elderly and physically impaired people experience difficulties when maneuvering a powered wheelchair. In order to provide improved maneuvering, powered wheelchairs ha...
When a robot provides direction--as a guide, an assistant, or as an instructor--the robot may have to interact with people of different backgrounds and skill sets. Different peopl...
Cristen Torrey, Aaron Powers, Susan R. Fussell, Sa...
We develop a network of distributed mobile sensor systems as a solution to the emergency response problem. The mobile sensors are inside a building and they form a connected ad-ho...
George Kantor, Sanjiv Singh, Ronald A. Peterson, D...
The purpose of Project Pioneer is to develop an exploratory robot capable of creating a three-dimensional photo-realistic map of the inside of the damaged Chornobyl Nuclear Reacto...
Fitzgerald Steele Jr., Geb W. Thomas, Theodore Bla...
: We present a simple and precise robot targeting method under portable x-ray fluoroscopy based on image servoing. The method is implemented for needle alignment in percutaneous pr...
Alexandru Patriciu, Dan Stoianovici, Louis L. Whit...