This paper describes a novel design of a soft actuator that combines two types of actuation methods: DC motor actuation and supercoiled polymer (SCP) artificial muscle. SCP artificial muscle is used to substitute the ...
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This study investigates the stiffness characteristics of the Sprint Z3 head, also known as 3-PRS Parallel Kinematics Machines, which are among the most extensively researched and viably successful manipulators for pre...
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Accurate and reliable segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in magnetic resonance image (MRI) is important for treatment planning and follow-up evaluation. However, it is still challenging because NPC is infi...
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Soft robots have many advantages over their rigid counterparts. These include their inherent compliance, lightweight and high adaptability to cluttered workspaces. Soft continuum robots, biologically inspired snake-li...
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Soft robots have many advantages over their rigid counterparts. These include their inherent compliance, lightweight and high adaptability to cluttered workspaces. Soft continuum robots, biologically inspired snake-like robots, are hyper-redundant and highly deformable. These robots can be challenging to control due to their complex kinematic and dynamic models. This paper presents a novel kinematic-model-free controller that uses a quasi-static assumption in order to control the tip-position of soft continuum robots with threadlike actuation while compensating for gravity simultaneously. The controller was tested on simulated continuum soft robots to demonstrate its ability to guide the tip while following a given trajectory. Novel kinematic-model-free control methods are introduced for soft robots' route and length control. The robustness of the controller is demonstrated with an actuator-failure test. The kinematic-model-free controller provides an adaptive control method for static, re-configuring, and growing soft continuum robots with threadlike actuation.
Hand-eye calibration estimates the pose of a camera relative to a robot, which is a fundamental problem for visually guided robots, especially for dynamic object grasping. Most methods use 2D fiducial markers with dis...
Hand-eye calibration estimates the pose of a camera relative to a robot, which is a fundamental problem for visually guided robots, especially for dynamic object grasping. Most methods use 2D fiducial markers with distinctive visual features and require pre-calibration for accurate calibration, which can not work online. In this paper, we propose a novel hand-eye calibration method based on the natural 3D object, which can work online and automatically even if the object is textureless or weakly textured. We first propose a Pose Refinement Network (PR-Net) to improve the accuracy of 3D object tracking. Then we build a 3D convergence point constraint based on the multi-view information with the accurate object pose to adjust the object position. Finally, we optimize the hand-eye pose by the closed-loop constraint with the optimized object position, solving the problem that is easy to fall into a local minimum. The experiments show that the average error of our hand-eye calibration method is 1.20 degrees and 23.18 mm. The results achieve state-of-the-art by using the working object to realize the online hand-eye calibration.
This notes focuses on the issue of whether or not the state of a plant can be estimated when the inputs of communication channel involve noise and disturbance simultaneously. It turns out to calculate the maximum capa...
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The computer vision techniques have been widely used in the robotic manipulation for perception and positioning. However, duo to the inaccuracy of camera calibration and measurement, there is a greatly need for more a...
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This paper presents our submitted system to SemEval 2021 Task 4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. Our system uses a large pre-trained language model as the encoder and an additional dual multi-head coattenti...
A Magnetoencephalography (MEG) time-series recording consists of multi-channel signals collected by superconducting sensors, with each signal's intensity reflecting magnetic field changes over time at the sensor l...
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Information extraction (IE) aims to extract structural knowledge from plain natural language texts. Recently, generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text understanding and...
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