— The exoskeleton robot, serving as an assistive device worn by the human (orthotic), functions as a humanamplifier. Setting the human machine interface (HMI) at the neuro-muscu...
Ettore Cavallaro, Jacob Rosen, Joel C. Perry, Step...
— The paper presents a robot cell for multimodal standing-up motion augmentation. The robot cell is aimed at augmenting the standing-up capabilities of impaired or paraplegic sub...
Roman Kamnik, Tadej Bajd, John Williamson, Roderic...
: Several species of animals use whiskers to accurately navigate and explore objects in the absence of vision. We have developed inexpensive arrays of artificial whiskers based on ...
Aimee Schultz, Joseph Solomon, Michael A. Peshkin,...
— Many medical procedures involve the use of needles, but targeting accuracy can be limited due to obstacles in the needle’s path, shifts in target position caused by tissue de...
Robert J. Webster III, Jasenka Memisevic, Allison ...
— In this paper we address tasks for multirobot teams that require solving a distributed multi-agent planning problem in which the actions of robots are tightly coupled. The unce...