— Localization for low cost humanoid or animal-like personal robots has to rely on cheap sensors and has to be robust to user manipulations of the robot. We present a visual loca...
—This paper presents a new six DOF haptic device for dental surgery training system, which can provide 6 dimensional virtual force and torque. The proposed haptic device is based...
: A seven axis haptic device, called the Freedom-7, is described in relation to its application to surgical training. The generality of its concept makes it also relevant to most o...
Vincent Hayward, P. Gregorio, Oliver R. Astley, St...
Abstract--Acquisition of new sensorimotor knowledge by imitation is a promising paradigm for robot learning. To be effective, action learning should not be limited to direct replic...
—This paper proposes a new architecture for robot control. A test scenario is outlined to test the proposed system and enable a comparison with an existing system, which is able ...