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TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
On Clamping Planning in Workpiece-Fixture Systems
Deformation at contacts between the workpiece and locators/clamps resulting from large contact forces causes overall workpiece displacement, and affects the localization accuracy o...
Caihua Xiong, Michael Yu Wang, You-Lun Xiong
IROS
2009
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 1 days ago
Motion planning for active cannulas
— An active cannula is a medical device composed of thin, pre-curved, telescoping tubes that may enable many new surgical procedures. Planning optimal motions for these devices i...
Lisa A. Lyons, Robert J. Webster, Ron Alterovitz
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Collaborative Quasi-Linear Programming Framework for Ad Hoc Sensor Localization
—In this paper, we propose a collaborative localization scheme which utilizes, in addition to the range estimates to nodes with known locations (anchors), the range estimates bet...
Tao Jia, R. Michael Buehrer
ICRA
2005
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
CVPR
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Autocalibration and the absolute quadric
We describe a new method for camera autocalibration and scaled Euclidean structure and motion, from three or more views taken by a moving camera with fixed but unknown intrinsic ...
Bill Triggs