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The following topics are dealt with: robotics; biomimetics; microsystem; nanosystem; tactile sensors; mechatronics; path planning; rehabilation and wheelchair; laser image sensing and panoramic vision; human-machine interface; learning; visual servo and tracking; formation and SLAM; sensor networks; grasping; control and stability; modelling and task planning; manipulation; image processing; smart...
To assist a large number of physically disabled people who no longer are in full possession of their body motion, we have been developing an exoskeleton robot (ExoRob) to rehabilitate and to ease upper limb motion since movement of shoulder, elbow, and wrist play a vital role in the performance of essential daily activities. The proposed ExoRob will be comprised of seven degrees of freedom to enable...
The trajectory tracking control of 3-DOF instrument is very important for master-slave control robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery. In this paper, dynamic structure and equation of motion for the 3-DOF instrument was established to use the Euler-Lagrange method based on screw theory. A control scheme is designed based on the computed-torque controller and a RBF neural network based compensating...
Intelligent rehabilitation system has become a hot topic. In home rehabilitation system, the real-time tracking of human motion is very important. In this paper, it presents a modified CamShift (continuously adaptive mean shift) algorithm, which can track human limb motion in real time. Considering the limb motion and selected color probability distribution all together, we put forwards the modified...
An algorithm for bending robots is presented in this paper. The algorithm makes use of the features of bending process to solve three problems: procedure generating, targets calculating and obstacle avoidance. It generates procedure with two state machines and a knowledge library, calculates targets with heuristic rules, and avoids obstacles in joint space. The algorithm has been applied to manufacture...
In this study, the sliding mode approach is applied to the tracking control problem of a planar arm manipulator system driven by a new type of actuator, which comprises a pneumatic muscle (PM) and a torsion spring. Unlike the traditional agonist/antagonist pneumatic muscle actuator, the PM is arranged in place of bicep and the torsion spring provides opposing torque in the presented actuator. The...
This paper presents three haptic-based virtual applications for the undergoing rehabilitation of upper-limb post stroke patients. The three exercises are developed for their use on the multi-modal interface so-called Bimanual Haptic Desktop System (BHDS), which integrates the haptic functionalities and Video Display Terminal (VDT) within the work-plane of a desk. Firstly, two basic exercises, tracking...
The advantage of the optical-flow-based visual servo methods is that features of the moving object do not need to be known in advance. Therefore, they can fit for demands of versatile positioning and tracking tasks in the real world. Nevertheless, it is difficult to achieve satisfactory tracking performance for fast moving objects using these standard approaches. The purpose of this paper is to implement...
Deer vehicle collision (DVC) is constantly a major safety issue for the driving on rural road. It is estimated that there are over 35,000 DVCs yearly in the US resulting in about 200 deaths and close to 4,000 reported property damages of one thousand dollars or more. This justifies many attempts trying to detect deer on road. However, very little success has been achieved. In order to reduce the number...
In this paper a compact vision-based seam tracking system is designed for fillet joint. The main consideration in developing this system is its applicability and reliability. Thus programmable logical controller (PLC) is used as the controller and smart camera as the vision sensor. To get reliable image features, laser structured light is used. Besides its hardware structure, the image processing...
A novel paradigm for the evaluation of human-robot interaction is proposed, with special focus on the importance of natural eye and head movements in nonverbal human-machine communication scenarios. We present an experimental platform that will enable Wizard-of-Oz experiments in which a human experimenter (wizard) teleoperates a robotic head and eyes with his own head and eyes. Since the robot is...
To track the movement of wireless capsule endoscope in the human body, we design a magnetic localization and orientation system. In this system, capsule contains a permanent magnet as the movable object. A wearable magnetic sensor array is arranged out of the human body to capture the magnetic signal. This sensor array is composed of magnetic sensors, Honeywell product HMC1043. The variations of magnet...
Robot easy programming is a keen requirement in GI (General Industrial) company using low skilled people. This paper deals with the problem of a novel active, online, lead-through robot programming method based on a 6-DOF wire-based tracking device, RoboPuppet, with the 3-2-1 configuration. The kinematics analysis of this configuration is addressed by finding analytic expressions for the unique solution...
This paper proposes a plausible approach for a robot to discover its own body based on the coherence of two different sensory feedbacks; vision and proprioception. The image cues of a moving region are stored in an image base with a visuo proprioceptional coherence label. The existence of coherence between the vision and proprioception suggests that the visually detected object is correlated to its...
This paper presents a vision based human machine interface (HMI) for the Xbox. It applies feature tracking algorithms to recognize user's head gestures and translates them into commands for the game. The pyramidal implementation of Lucas Kanade feature tracking is used to trace the optical flows in a sequence of frames. The experimental results show the feasibility of the proposed vision based interface,...
A lead-through robot programming solution with a 6-DOF motion tracking device is presented. The motion tracking device is flexible-linked and can be fixed on the end-effector of a robot to realize lead-through teaching. The programming solution covers data acquiring from the six string sensors of the motion tracking device, data processing, kinematical calculation which converts the sensor signals...
This paper deals with the application of Kalman filter for optimizing and filtering the position signal of shuttlecock obtained by the vision servo system of 'shuttlecock robot'. Non-uniform mass distribution and air resistance effect can make much noise not only in vision recognition but also in kinematic model analysis of shuttlecock. The Kalman filter algorithm is used to filter the shuttlecock...
In this paper, a new Digital Image Stabilization (DIS) system is for humanoid eyes presented. This DIS system was biologically inspired by the human Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR) system, and is based on a KLT tracker and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). In order to more accurately estimate the motion between two consecutive image frames, corresponding points that were discovered by KLT tracker...
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