This paper describes the design, control and implementation of a sensorized robotic platform for versatile rehabilitation of stroke patients living with lower extremity neuromuscular deficit. The proposed device is co...
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(纸本)9781479918096
This paper describes the design, control and implementation of a sensorized robotic platform for versatile rehabilitation of stroke patients living with lower extremity neuromuscular deficit. The proposed device is composed of a six-degree-of-freedom actuation mechanism with a large workspace for lower extremity rehabilitation regimens. With a small footprint, lightweight, and low-cost design and a wireless interface this device is portable and well-suited for at-home and in-clinic use. A custom six-degree-of-freedom force/torque sensor was developed to measure real-time patient forces, and an admittance controller was implemented to provide assistive motion therapy. The results obtained show the suitability of this device for human-robot interaction for the implementation of lower extremity rehabilitation therapy.
A1 Functional advantages of cell-type heterogeneity in neural circuits Tatyana O. Sharpee A2 Mesoscopic modeling of propagating waves in visual cortex Alain Destexhe A3 Dynamics and biomarkers of mental disorders Mits...
A1 Functional advantages of cell-type heterogeneity in neural circuits Tatyana O. Sharpee A2 Mesoscopic modeling of propagating waves in visual cortex Alain Destexhe A3 Dynamics and biomarkers of mental disorders Mitsuo Kawato F1 Precise recruitment of spiking output at theta frequencies requires dendritic h-channels in multi-compartment models of oriens-lacunosum/moleculare hippocampal interneurons Vladislav Sekulić, Frances K. Skinner F2 Kernel methods in reconstruction of current sources from extracellular potentials for single cells and the whole brains Daniel K. Wójcik, Chaitanya Chintaluri, Dorottya Cserpán, Zoltán Somogyvári F3 The synchronized periods depend on intracellular transcriptional repression mechanisms in circadian clocks. Jae Kyoung Kim, Zachary P. Kilpatrick, Matthew R. Bennett, Kresimir Josić O1 Assessing irregularity and coordination of spiking-bursting rhythms in central pattern generators Irene Elices, David Arroyo, Rafael Levi, Francisco B. Rodriguez, Pablo Varona O2 Regulation of top-down processing by cortically-projecting parvalbumin positive neurons in basal forebrain Eunjin Hwang, Bowon Kim, Hio-Been Han, Tae Kim, James T. McKenna, Ritchie E. Brown, Robert W. McCarley, Jee Hyun Choi O3 Modeling auditory stream segregation, build-up and bistability James Rankin, Pamela Osborn Popp, John Rinzel O4 Strong competition between tonotopic neural ensembles explains pitch-related dynamics of auditory cortex evoked fields Alejandro Tabas, André Rupp, Emili Balaguer-Ballester O5 A simple model of retinal response to multi-electrode stimulation Matias I. Maturana, David B. Grayden, Shaun L. Cloherty, Tatiana Kameneva, Michael R. Ibbotson, Hamish Meffin O6 Noise correlations in V4 area correlate with behavioral performance in visual discrimination task Veronika Koren, Timm Lochmann, Valentin Dragoi, Klaus Obermayer O7 Input-location dependent gain modulation in cerebellar nucleus neurons Maria Psarrou, Maria Schilstra, Neil Davey, Benjamin Torben-Ni
A novel parallel Remote Center of Motion (RCM) mechanism is proposed for a surgical robot designed to perform minimally invasive needle-based interventions for lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. The proposed robot p...
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A novel parallel Remote Center of Motion (RCM) mechanism is proposed for a surgical robot designed to perform minimally invasive needle-based interventions for lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. The proposed robot provides four degrees of freedom (DOFs) to orient and move a surgical needle within a spherical coordinate system. The RCM is beneath the skin surface to minimize the invasiveness of the surgical procedure while providing the required workspace. This compact, patient-mounted robot benefits from a design capable of measuring the pure interaction forces between the needle and the tissue. In this paper, the mechanism design and its specifications are described. The kinematic analysis is presented and isotropy of the mechanism for targeting tumors is studied. Finally, the performance of the proposed robot is evaluated experimentally.
Most stereovision applications are binocular which uses information from a 2-camera array to perform stereo matching and compute the depth image. Trinocular stereovision with a 3-camera array has been proved to provid...
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We present a method to manipulate deformable objects that does not require modeling and simulating deformation. Our method is based on the concept of diminishing rigidity, which we use to quickly compute an approximat...
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(纸本)9781467363563
We present a method to manipulate deformable objects that does not require modeling and simulating deformation. Our method is based on the concept of diminishing rigidity, which we use to quickly compute an approximation to the Jacobian of the deformable object. This Jacobian is used to drive the points within the deformable object towards a set of targets. However, this Jacobian alone is insufficient to avoid stretching the object beyond its allowed length and to avoid gripper collision with obstacles. Thus a key part of our approach is incorporating techniques to avoid collision and excessive stretching. Our experiments show how to perform several interesting tasks for one and two-dimensional deformable objects using our method. They also show how the method can be applied to collaborative tasks, where the robot and a user simultaneously manipulate the deformable object. Our experiments are conducted in simulation but we emphasize that our method does not have access to the model of the deformable object used by the simulator, although we assume we are able to sense the geometry of the object. While our method is local, we find that it is quite versatile in the range of tasks it can perform, especially since it has no knowledge of the model of the deformable object.
In this paper, a vibration-assisted needle insertion technique has been proposed in order to reduce needle-tissue friction. The LuGre friction model was employed as a basis for the current study and the model was exte...
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(纸本)9781467363563
In this paper, a vibration-assisted needle insertion technique has been proposed in order to reduce needle-tissue friction. The LuGre friction model was employed as a basis for the current study and the model was extended and analyzed to include the impact of high-frequency vibration on translational friction. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the role of insertion speed as well as vibration frequency on frictional effects. In the experiments conducted, an 18 GA brachytherapy needle was vibrated and inserted into an ex-vivo soft tissue sample using a pair of amplified piezoelectric actuators. Analysis demonstrates that the translational friction can be reduced by introducing a vibratory low-amplitude motion onto a regular insertion profile, which is usually performed at a constant rate.
Based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for optimal design of PID controller, a method is proposed to navigate of a two-wheeled mobile robot from a given initial configuration to a desired final configura...
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Based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for optimal design of PID controller, a method is proposed to navigate of a two-wheeled mobile robot from a given initial configuration to a desired final configuration in an unknown environment filled with obstacles. The mobile robot can follow a wall with PID control to adjust motor speed and avoid obstacles with moving square method in an unknown environment. The PSO algorithm is an optimization technique which is inspired by the social-like behavior, such as bird flocking or fish utilized it to solve optimization problems. It finds the global best solution by simply adjusting the trajectory of each particle its own best particle and toward the best particle of the entire swarm at each generation. The PSO algorithm becomes very popular due to it can be easily implemented and quickly find a good solution. Then the PSO algorithm can be used to adjust parameters of PID to control wheel velocities in an unknown environment filled with obstacles. To show the feasibility of the proposed method, simulation results and experiments are included for illustration.
This paper evaluates existing taxonomies aimed at characterizing the interaction between robots and their users and modifies them for health care applications. The modifications are based on existing robot technologie...
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(纸本)9781424441198
This paper evaluates existing taxonomies aimed at characterizing the interaction between robots and their users and modifies them for health care applications. The modifications are based on existing robot technologies and user acceptance of robotics. Characterization of the user, or in this case the patient, is a primary focus of the paper, as they present a unique new role as robot users. While therapeutic and monitoring-related applications for robots are still relatively uncommon, we believe they will begin to grow and thus it isimportant that the spurring relationship between robot and patient is well understood.
It has been suggested that the human mirror neuron system (MNS) plays a critical role in action observation and imitation. However, the transformation of perspective between the observed (allocentric) and the imitated...
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(纸本)9781424441198
It has been suggested that the human mirror neuron system (MNS) plays a critical role in action observation and imitation. However, the transformation of perspective between the observed (allocentric) and the imitated (egocentric) actions has received little attention. We expand a previously proposed biologically plausible MNS model by incorporating general spatial transformation capabilities that are assumed to be encoded by the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and the superior parietal lobule (SPL) as well as investigating their interactions with the inferior frontal gyrus and the inferior parietal lobule. The results reveal that the IPS/SPL could process the frame of reference and the viewpoint transformations, and provide invariant visual representations for the temporo-parieto-frontal circuit. This allows the imitator to imitate the action performed by a demonstrator under various perspectives while replicating results from the literatures. Our results confirm and extend the importance of perspective transformation processing during action observation and imitation.
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