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OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Device Driver Safety Through a Reference Validation Mechanism
Device drivers typically execute in supervisor mode and thus must be fully trusted. This paper describes how to move them out of the trusted computing base, by running them withou...
Dan Williams, Emin Gün Sirer, Fred B. Schneid...
GI
2009
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
Smart mechatronic driver for surgical trajectory navigation
: The aim of trajectory navigation is to position a surgical instrument along a planned trajectory. Computer assisted navigation systems show maximal flexibility but are limited by...
Matías de la Fuente, Axel Follmann, Sabine ...
IJBC
2007
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13 years 3 months ago
Galton's quincunx: Random Walk or Chaos?
In 1873 Francis Galton had constructed a simple mechanical device where a ball is dropped vertically through a harrow of pins that deflect the ball sideways as it falls. Galton c...
Kevin Judd
IROS
2006
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots
— We have developed a new class of continuously flexible snake-like robots, called active cannulas, that consist of several telescoping pre-curved superelastic tubes. The device...
Robert J. Webster III, Allison M. Okamura, Noah J....