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Background
Intraocular surgery and reconstructive surgery are challenging microsurgery procedures that require two types of motion: precise motion and larger motion. To effectively perform the requisite motion using a robot, it is necessary to develop a manipulator that can adjust the scale of motion between precise motion and less precise, yet larger motion.
Aims
In this paper, we propose a novel...
With the rapidly increasing number of older people in our societies, fall detection is becoming more important: Older adults may fall at home when they are alone and they may not be found in time for them to get help. In addition, a fall itself can cause serious injuries such as lacerations, fractures and hematomas. Although many previous studies have been reported on various fall detection technologies...
This paper proposes a monitoring system to prevent falls from a bed. The position of patient on the bed is categorized as stable and unstable. The system has defined the unstable condition as the situation where a patient is lying on the edge of the bed. The patient was then observed using a thermal imagery camera. We extracted x-, and y-axis histograms that can be used as a feature, using this camera...
Fall detection systems have been proposed to prevent additional injuries following fall accidents. This paper introduces an easily learnable fall detection system based on the data of an individual patient in a hospital room. The improvement of low performance using a single accelerometer at wrists and the inconvenience of sensor attached to a waist in the conventional approach was concentrated on...
Driving assistance systems (DASs) can be useful to inexperienced drivers. Current DASs are composed of front rear monitoring systems (FRMSs), lane departure warning systems (LDWSs), side obstacle warning systems (SOWSs), etc. Sometimes, DASs provide unnecessary information when using unprocessed low-level data. Therefore, to provide high-level necessary information to the driver, DASs need to be improved...
Interaction between a human and a robot can have positive effects on temperament and the development of children and can also be beneficial during psychotherapy. When a robot finishes a task, a user may want to give the robot a reward by means of emotional interaction. Here, we assume that a mobile robot is capable of emotional interactions. We design a mobile robot system which interacts with humans...
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