Biomimetic robotic fish has the distinct advantage of efficient propulsion and high maneuverability over conventional underwater vehicles. This paper addresses the underwater target search issue in a free-swimming rob...
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Biomimetic robotic fish has the distinct advantage of efficient propulsion and high maneuverability over conventional underwater vehicles. This paper addresses the underwater target search issue in a free-swimming robotic fish with embedded vision. In particular, we use the stored original image to acquire the color characteristics of the target and propose an improved Camshift algorithm based on the light intensity distribution to search the target in the captured image. Then the robotic fish is driven towards the identified target smoothly with the aid of bio-inspired Central Pattern Generator (CPG) control. All tracking algorithms are implemented in real time with a hybrid control system combining an embedded microprocessor (TI DM3730) and a microcontroller (ATmega128). Latest aquatic experiments demonstrate that a fairly good tracking effect is resulted and the interference caused by the mirror image effect is largely eliminated. The proposed technical scheme offers an alternative to target search in relatively complex underwater environments.
Cardiovascular disease is a class of diseases that involve the heart and blood vessels, which is the leading cause of deaths globally. Vascular interventional surgery is an effective treatment. As belongs to minimally...
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Cardiovascular disease is a class of diseases that involve the heart and blood vessels, which is the leading cause of deaths globally. Vascular interventional surgery is an effective treatment. As belongs to minimally invasive surgery (MIS), it is more popular due to the advantages of smaller injury, faster recovery and higher accuracy rate. However, it needs up to 10 years to train a skilled surgeon for minimally invasive cardiovascular surgeries. The surgeon cannot avoid receiving the excessive dose of X-ray due to long time operation in daily work. A dual-finger robotic hand (DRH) was introduced to assist the surgeon in manipulating the catheter/guide wire. As a surgical device, DRH is aiming at simple mechanism, ease to use and convenient sterilization. It was carefully investigated how the surgeon manipulates the catheter/guide wire. The bionic thumb and forefinger were designed to imitate human's. Compared to human's, the two bionic fingers are enhanced due to that they can advance the catheter/guide wire without moving the whole hand. The DRH mechanism was carefully designed. A console was also designed for the surgeon to manipulate DRH. After the DRH control was done, the minimum robotic cardiovascular interventional system was formed. Experimental results have validated the feasibility of DRH and the robotic system. Future work regarding DRH is also discussed.
Robust object tracking in crowded and cluttered dynamic scenes is a very difficult task in robotic vision due to complex and changeable environment and similar features between the background and foreground. In this p...
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(纸本)9781479925667
Robust object tracking in crowded and cluttered dynamic scenes is a very difficult task in robotic vision due to complex and changeable environment and similar features between the background and foreground. In this paper, we present an improved mean-shift tracker which uses discriminative local saliency feature and a new spatial pattern preserved similarity metric method to overcome above difficulties in mean-shift based tracking approaches. The local saliency feature, which is composed of contrast color, texture and gradient around the target, is proposed to find the most distinguished features between the target and background, and it could enhance the tracking performance greatly in the cluttered and complex environment. Another important benefit of this feature is that the saliency map form could be easily embedded into the mean-shift framework. The new similarity metric try to preserve the spatial pattern to reduce the similarity errors caused by different spatial structure. It is beneficial to the mean-shift tracker to face the targets and scenes which has identical texture and color feature and with different spatial patterns. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed improved mean-shift tracker is validated through the plenty experimental results and analysis.
Action knowledge is an important type of behavioral knowledge and of vital importance to many applications in social computing, especially in behavior modeling, analysis and prediction. In this paper, we present a com...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467362146
Action knowledge is an important type of behavioral knowledge and of vital importance to many applications in social computing, especially in behavior modeling, analysis and prediction. In this paper, we present a computational method to action knowledge extraction from online media. Our approach is based on mutual bootstrapping and combined with knowledge reasoning. Compared with the related work, our approach can acquire more types of action knowledge, and needs much less human labor. We evaluate the performance of our method using the Web textual data from security informatics domain. The experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed method.
The visualization of the coronary vasculature is of utmost importance in interventional cardiology. Intravascular surgical robots assist the practitioners to perform the complex procedure while protecting them from th...
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(纸本)9781479927456
The visualization of the coronary vasculature is of utmost importance in interventional cardiology. Intravascular surgical robots assist the practitioners to perform the complex procedure while protecting them from the tremendous occupational hazards. Robotic surgical simulation aims to provide support for the learners in both efficiency and convenience. The blood vessels especially the coronary arteries with rich details are the key part of the anatomic scenario of the virtual training system. The variations in diameters and directions make the segmentation of the coronary arteries a difficult work. In this paper, a robust and semi-automatic approach for the segmentation of the coronary arteries is developed. The approach is based on the multi-scale tubular enhancement and an improved geodesic active contours model. The demonstrated approach firstly enhances the tubular objects by computing their “vesselness”. Next the edge potential maps are calculated based on the enhanced information. Meanwhile, the initial contours are generated by a modified fast marching method. Then the actual wave fronts evolution extracts the details of the coronary arteries. Finally the visualization model is organized based on the segmentation results by the marching cubes method. This approach has been proved successful for the visualization of the coronary arteries based on the CTA information.
In this paper,an artificial neural network is proposed to estimate knee joint angle in hybrid activation of knee extension motion,including voluntary muscle contraction and functional electrical stimulation(FES) induc...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479900305
In this paper,an artificial neural network is proposed to estimate knee joint angle in hybrid activation of knee extension motion,including voluntary muscle contraction and functional electrical stimulation(FES) induced *** electromyography(EMG) signals of three muscles responsible for knee extension and FES parameter which describe the FES intensity are used as input vector of the neural network,while the estimated knee angle is the *** the experiment, FES with different combinations of parameters(pulse amplitude and pulse width) was delivered to the rectus femoris muscle of a healthy male subject when the knee was in a periodic extension motion by voluntary muscle *** EMG signals of three muscles,parameters of FES as well as the actual knee angle were ***,there were 52,233 and 17,420 sampling points corresponding to 261 and 87 seconds used to train and validate the neural *** result shows the trained network has a satisfactory performance on knee joint angle estimation whose output well follows the curve of actual knee angle. Root mean square error between estimated angle and actual angle is employed to represent the estimation accuracy which is 5.07 degree according to the experimental data.
Social networking sites provide a convenient way for users to participate in discussion groups and communicate with others. While users situate in and enjoy such a social environment, it is important for various secur...
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(纸本)9781467362146
Social networking sites provide a convenient way for users to participate in discussion groups and communicate with others. While users situate in and enjoy such a social environment, it is important for various security related applications to understand, model and analyze participating users' behavior. In this paper, we make an attempt to model and predict user participation behavior in discussion groups of social networking sites. Our work employs a feature-based approach, which considers four types of features: thread features, content similarity, user behavior and social features. We conduct an empirical study on a popular social networking site in China, ***. The experimental results show the effectiveness of our approach.
A horizontal exoskeleton for lower limb rehabilitation called iLeg has been developed by our laboratory which consists of two 3-DOF (degrees of freedom) robotic leg orthoses. This paper proposes a position-based imped...
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(纸本)9781479927456
A horizontal exoskeleton for lower limb rehabilitation called iLeg has been developed by our laboratory which consists of two 3-DOF (degrees of freedom) robotic leg orthoses. This paper proposes a position-based impedance control with the compensation of BP NNs (back propagation neural networks) for the exoskeleton. Based on the control scheme, the task-oriented active training is investigated where impedance parameters are self-adjusted to movement deviation and patient activities with fuzzy logic. An adaptive haptic interface of active compliance is ensured to provide positive feedback to patients when their effort is desired or negative otherwise, which encourages patients to practice the desired movement following the predefined directed path. Besides, the timing freedom is separated from spatial trajectory and determined by patients. Voluntary effort hence becomes a requirement during the exercises, no effort no movement, so that active contribution of patients is highly motivated. Simulation results have verified the feasibility of the control scheme and the training strategy. An active compliant environment is created with adaptive haptic interface for task-oriented patient-driven training of multi-joint coordination.
Vehicle detection is a foundational and significant task in video surveillance systems. In this paper, a vehicle detection method using a deformable model and symmetry is proposed. First, we learn the active basis mod...
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There has been greatly increased interest in using embedded vision for aquatic environments. This paper presents a robust target tracking method for a free-swimming biomimetic robotic fish by means of embedded vision ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479913343
There has been greatly increased interest in using embedded vision for aquatic environments. This paper presents a robust target tracking method for a free-swimming biomimetic robotic fish by means of embedded vision and central pattern generator (CPG)-based motion control. Specifically, an algorithm called automatic continuous adaptive mean shift (Auto-CAMSHIFT) is firstly proposed to obtain the position and size of the interested target. Then a fuzzy logic controller is developed to generate the control input closely related to the desired target. A CPG controller that is robust against small and unexpected disturbance, at the same time, is employed to produce coordinated signals for multiple moving joints of the robotic fish. Finally, aquatic testing results verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods and show a satisfactory performance.
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