Estimating the precise pose of a 3D model in an image is challenging;explicitly identifying correspondences is difficult, particularly at smaller scales and in the presence of occlusion. Exemplar classifiers have demo...
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The ionizing radiation is used in the nuclear medicine field during the execution of diagnosis exams. The continuous exposure of humans to the radiation may cause organs and tissues damage, being its severity dependen...
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Automating repetitive surgical subtasks such as suturing, cutting and debridement can reduce surgeon fatigue and procedure times and facilitate supervised tele-surgery. Programming is difficult because human tissue is...
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Automating repetitive surgical subtasks such as suturing, cutting and debridement can reduce surgeon fatigue and procedure times and facilitate supervised tele-surgery. Programming is difficult because human tissue is deformable and highly specular. Using the da Vinci Research Kit (DVRK) robotic surgical assistant, we explore a “Learning By Observation” (LBO) approach where we identify, segment, and parameterize motion sequences and sensor conditions to build a finite state machine (FSM) for each subtask. The robot then executes the FSM repeatedly to tune parameters and if necessary update the FSM structure. We evaluate the approach on two surgical subtasks: debridement of 3D Viscoelastic Tissue Phantoms (3d-DVTP), in which small target fragments are removed from a 3D viscoelastic tissue phantom; and Pattern Cutting of 2D Orthotropic Tissue Phantoms (2d-PCOTP), a step in the standard Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery training suite, in which a specified circular area must be cut from a sheet of orthotropic tissue phantom. We describe the approach and physical experiments with repeatability of 96% for 50 trials of the 3d-DVTP subtask and 70% for 20 trials of the 2d-PCOTP subtask. A video is available at: http://***/Robot-Surgery-Video-Oct-2014.
Despite efforts towards evaluation standards in facial expression analysis (e.g. FERA 2011), there is a need for up-to-date standardised evaluation procedures, focusing in particular on current challenges in the field...
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Despite efforts towards evaluation standards in facial expression analysis (e.g. FERA 2011), there is a need for up-to-date standardised evaluation procedures, focusing in particular on current challenges in the field. One of the challenges that is actively being addressed is the automatic estimation of expression intensities. To continue to provide a standardisation platform and to help the field progress beyond its current limitations, the FG 2015 Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis challenge (FERA 2015) will challenge participants to estimate FACS Action Unit (AU) intensity as well as AU occurrence on a common benchmark dataset with reliable manual annotations. Evaluation will be done using a clear and well-defined protocol. In this paper we present the second such challenge in automatic recognition of facial expressions, to be held in conjunction with the 11 IEEE conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, May 2015, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Three sub-challenges are defined: the detection of AU occurrence, the estimation of AU intensity for pre-segmented data, and fully automatic AU intensity estimation. In this work we outline the evaluation protocol, the data used, and the results of a baseline method for the three sub-challenges.
The paper presents consistence of the theoretical predictions with obtained experimental results of the pressure field inside a wave-guide modeled mathematically as an infinite/semi-infinite cylindrical duct. The expe...
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(纸本)9788361402282
The paper presents consistence of the theoretical predictions with obtained experimental results of the pressure field inside a wave-guide modeled mathematically as an infinite/semi-infinite cylindrical duct. The experiments were carried out in two ducts of radius 77 mm and 150 mm. The distribution of the acoustic pressure was measured by means of 1/4 inch microphone on four different duct cross sections with the step 5 mm along the duct radius and 15° in the azimuthal angle. Based on the measurement data the complex amplitudes (i.e. amplitude module and phase) were calculated solving the inverse problem by means of the least square method The obtained experimental data present, in general, consistence with the theoretical predictions, however the accuracy has been improved with the duct radius. The up to date experimental results confirm the multimodal structure of the sound field inside a cylindrical duct. Moreover, the theoretical values of the cut-on frequencies calculated for a hard duct are in very good agreement with the observed ones. These findings confirm that the assumptions of the hard duct and the lossless environment are well justified.
We explore the idea of simulated experimental analysis for challenge scenarios in robotics using the search and secure problem from the Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC). The MAGIC proble...
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We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of a fiber optically sensorized robotic hand for multi purpose manipulation tasks. The robotic hand has three fingers that enable both pinch and power grips. Th...
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We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of a fiber optically sensorized robotic hand for multi purpose manipulation tasks. The robotic hand has three fingers that enable both pinch and power grips. The main bone structure was made of a rigid plastic material and covered by soft skin. Both bone and skin contain embedded fiber optics for force and tactile sensing, respectively. Eight fiber optic strain sensors were used for rigid bone force sensing, and six fiber optic strain sensors were used for soft skin tactile sensing. For characterization, different loads were applied in two orthogonal axes at the fingertip and the sensor signals were measured from the bone structure. The skin was also characterized by applying a light load on different places for contact localization. The actuation of the hand was achieved by a tendon-driven under-actuated system. Gripping motions are implemented using an active tendon located on the volar side of each finger and connected to a motor. Opening motions of the hand were enabled by passive elastic tendons located on the dorsal side of each finger.
Communication constraints dictated by hardware often require a multi-robot system to make decisions and take actions locally. Unfortunately, local knowledge may impose limits that run against global optimality in a de...
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This work presents a novel autonomous parking concept for a four wheel-steerable robotic electric vehicle called ROboMObil (ROMO). Its extraordinary maneuverability, including rotations and lateral driving, and its ca...
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This paper presents an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), based on the AR. Drone platform, which can perform an autonomous navigation in indoor (e.g. corridor, hallway) and industrial environments (e.g. production line). ...
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(纸本)9781450327466
This paper presents an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), based on the AR. Drone platform, which can perform an autonomous navigation in indoor (e.g. corridor, hallway) and industrial environments (e.g. production line). It also has the ability to avoid pedestrians while they are working or walking in the vicinity of the robot. The only sensor in our system is the front camera. For the navigation part our system rely on the vanishing point algorithm, the Hough transform for the wall detection and avoidance, and the HOG descriptors for pedestrian detection using SVM classifier. Our experiments show that our vision navigation procedures are reliable and enable the aerial vehicle to y without humans intervention and coordinate together in the same workspace. We are able to detect human motion with high confidence of 85% in a corridor and to confirm our algorithm in 80% successful fight experiments. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
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