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IROS
2006
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots
— We have developed a new class of continuously flexible snake-like robots, called active cannulas, that consist of several telescoping pre-curved superelastic tubes. The device...
Robert J. Webster III, Allison M. Okamura, Noah J....
ICRA
2008
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Towards a needle driver robot for radiofrequency ablation of tumors under continuous MRI
— This paper presents an initial design and feasibility study for a 1-DOF Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) compatible needle driver robot for radiofrequency ablation (RFA). This ...
Rebecca Kokes, Kevin Lister, Rao Gullapalli, Bao Z...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Color Learning on a Mobile Robot: Towards Full Autonomy under Changing Illumination
A central goal of robotics and AI is to be able to deploy an agent to act autonomously in the real world over an extended period of time. It is commonly asserted that in order to ...
Mohan Sridharan, Peter Stone
ICRA
2009
IEEE
126views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Toward model free atmospheric sensing by aerial robot networks in strong wind fields
Abstract—This paper presents a system for in situ atmospheric sensing using an aerial robot system in the presence of a strong wind field. The geostatistical concept of the vari...
Jack Elston, Maciej Stachura, Eric W. Frew, Ute C....
ISCAS
2006
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Towards autonomous adaptive behavior in a bio-inspired CNN-controlled robot
— This paper describes a general approach for the unsupervised learning of behaviors in a behavior-based robot. The key idea is to formalize a behavior produced by a Motor Map dr...
Paolo Arena, Luigi Fortuna, Mattia Frasca, Luca Pa...