We present a method for real-time tracking of moving soft tissue with B-mode ultrasound (US). The method makes use of the speckle information contained in the US images to estimate...
Alexandre Krupa, Gabor Fichtinger, Gregory D. Hage...
— This paper presents a new visual servoing method that is able to stabilize a moving area of soft tissue within an ultrasound B-mode imaging plane. The approach consists of movi...
Alexandre Krupa, Gabor Fichtinger, Gregory D. Hage...
Recent advances in surgical robotics have provided a platform for extending the current capabilities of minimally invasive surgery by incorporating both pre-operative and intra-ope...
Peter Mountney, Danail Stoyanov and Guang-Zhong Ya...
— Up to now, mostly blunt human-robot impacts were investigated in the robotics literature. In this context, the influence of robot mass and velocity during rigid impacts with a...
Abstract The DLR Lightweight Robot III (LWR-III) developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is characterized by low inertial properties, torque sensing in each joint, and a loa...