Human and robot collaboration in assembly tasks is an integral part in modern manufactories. Robots provide advantages in both process and productivity with their repeatability and usability in different tasks, while ...
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Human and robot collaboration in assembly tasks is an integral part in modern manufactories. Robots provide advantages in both process and productivity with their repeatability and usability in different tasks, while ...
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Human and robot collaboration in assembly tasks is an integral part in modern manufactories. Robots provide advantages in both process and productivity with their repeatability and usability in different tasks, while human operators provide flexibility and can act as safeguards. However, process complexity increases which can lower the overall quality. Increased complexity can negatively influence decision making due to cognitive load on human operators, which can lead to lower quality, be it product, process or human work. Moreover, it can lead to safety risks, human-system error and accidents. In this work, we present the preliminary results on an experiment performed with student-participants, based on an assembly task. The experiment was set up to emulate an industrial assembly, and data collection was performed through qualitative and non-intrusive quantitative methods. Questionnaires were used to assess perceptual task complexity and cognitive load, while a stereo camera provided recordings for after-task analysis on process errors and human work quality based on a 3D skeleton-based human pose estimation and tracking method. The aim of the study is to investigate causes of errors and implications on quality. Future direction of the work is discussed.
Vehicles capable of operating in more than one environment have been developed to solve real problems. Among them, the hybrid unmanned aerial-underwater vehicle (HUAUV) is receiving attention from the robotics communi...
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Vehicles capable of operating in more than one environment have been developed to solve real problems. Among them, the hybrid unmanned aerial-underwater vehicle (HUAUV) is receiving attention from the robotics community, mainly with a quadrotor-like configuration. However, this vehicle presents high energy consumption because of the larger mass required compared to the only aerial vehicle, limiting its autonomy. This work addresses the trajectory planning problem for a HUAUV. The method is based on Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs), a highly customizable planning technique. In addition, we propose two new heuristics to increase the energy efficiency of the hybrid vehicle. The first consists of biasing the tree expansion towards the environment with the lowest navigation cost, while the second one assigns estimated costs to nodes in the tree and chooses the least expensive trajectories. These techniques are evaluated in physically realistic simulation experiments performed in 135 scenarios. A comparative analysis of their performances is presented relative to the state of the art. We show that using efficient heuristics can significantly contribute to reducing energy consumption and even increase the average velocity in the missions performed by these vehicles.
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been considered a key feature of next-generation wireless networks. This paper investigates the joint design of the radar receive filter and dual-functional transmit wav...
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Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) arise from a mismatch between physics of image formation and idealized assumptions during tomographic reconstruction. These artifacts are particularly strong around metal im...
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Purpose: During spinal fusion surgery, screws are placed close to critical nerves suggesting the need for highly accurate screw placement. Verifying screw placement on high-quality tomographic imaging is essential. C-...
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Purpose: During spinal fusion surgery, screws are placed close to critical nerves suggesting the need for highly accurate screw placement. Verifying screw placement on high-quality tomographic imaging is essential. C-arm Cone-beam CT (CBCT) provides intraoperative 3D tomographic imaging which would allow for immediate verification and, if needed, revision. However, the reconstruction quality attainable with commercial CBCT devices is insufficient, predominantly due to severe metal artifacts in the presence of pedicle screws. These artifacts arise from a mismatch between the true physics of image formation and an idealized model thereof assumed during reconstruction. Prospectively acquiring views onto anatomy that are least affected by this mismatch can, therefore, improve reconstruction quality. Methods: We propose to adjust the C-arm CBCT source trajectory during the scan to optimize reconstruction quality with respect to a certain task, i.e. verification of screw placement. Adjustments are performed on-the-fly using a convolutional neural network that regresses a quality index over all possible next views given the current x-ray image. Adjusting the CBCT trajectory to acquire the recommended views results in non-circular source orbits that avoid poor images, and thus, data inconsistencies. Results: We demonstrate that convolutional neural networks trained on realistically simulated data are capable of predicting quality metrics that enable scene-specific adjustments of the CBCT source trajectory. Using both realistically simulated data as well as real CBCT acquisitions of a semianthropomorphic phantom, we show that tomographic reconstructions of the resulting scene-specific CBCT acquisitions exhibit improved image quality particularly in terms of metal artifacts. Conclusion: The proposed method is a step towards online patient-specific C-arm CBCT source trajectories that enable high-quality tomographic imaging in the operating room. Since the optimization objectiv
Fetoscopy laser photocoagulation is a widely adopted procedure for treating Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS). The procedure involves photocoagulation pathological anastomoses to restore a physiological blood e...
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Fetoscopy laser photocoagulation is a widely adopted procedure for treating Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS). The procedure involves photocoagulation pathological anastomoses to restore a physiological blood exchange among twins. The procedure is particularly challenging, from the surgeon's side, due to the limited field of view, poor manoeuvrability of the fetoscope, poor visibility due to amniotic fluid turbidity, and variability in illumination. These challenges may lead to increased surgery time and incomplete ablation of pathological anastomoses, resulting in persistent TTTS. Computer-assisted intervention (CAI) can provide TTTS surgeons with decision support and context awareness by identifying key structures in the scene and expanding the fetoscopic field of view through video mosaicking. Research in this domain has been hampered by the lack of high-quality data to design, develop and test CAI algorithms. Through the Fetoscopic Placental Vessel Segmentation and Registration (FetReg2021) challenge, which was organized as part of the MICCAI2021 Endoscopic vision (EndoVis) challenge, we released the first large-scale multi-center TTTS dataset for the development of generalized and robust semantic segmentation and video mosaicking algorithms with a focus on creating drift-free mosaics from long duration fetoscopy videos. For this challenge, we released a dataset of 2060 images, pixel-annotated for vessels, tool, fetus and background classes, from 18 in-vivo TTTS fetoscopy procedures and 18 short video clips of an average length of 411 frames for developing placental scene segmentation and frame registration for mosaicking techniques. Seven teams participated in this challenge and their model performance was assessed on an unseen test dataset of 658 pixel-annotated images from 6 fetoscopic procedures and 6 short clips. The challenge provided an opportunity for creating generalized solutions for fetoscopic scene understanding and mosaicking. In this paper,
Metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) arise from a mismatch between physics of image formation and idealized assumptions during tomographic reconstruction. These artifacts are particularly strong around metal im...
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The ability to predict the duration of an activity can enable a robot to plan its behaviors ahead, interact seamlessly with other humans, by coordinating its actions, and allocate effort and resources to tasks that ar...
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The ability to predict the duration of an activity can enable a robot to plan its behaviors ahead, interact seamlessly with other humans, by coordinating its actions, and allocate effort and resources to tasks that are time-constrained or critical. Despite its usefulness, models that examine the temporal properties of an activity remain relatively unexplored. In the current paper we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first method that can estimate temporal properties of an activity by observation. We evaluate it on three use-cases (i) wiping a table, (ii) chopping vegetables and (iii) cleaning the floor, using ground truth data from real demonstrations, and show that it can make predictions with high accuracy and little training. In addition, we investigate different methods to approximate the progress of each task, and demonstrate how a model can generalize, by reusing part of it in different activities.
We propose the first approach to the problem of inferring the depth map of a human hand based on a single RGB image. We achieve this with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that employs a stacked hourglass model as ...
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