In this paper, we present our approach for visual tracking of head, hands and head orientation. Given the images provided by a calibrated stereo-camera, color and disparity inform...
We are developing virtual fixtures for the internal mammary artery (IMA) harvest portion of robot-assisted coronary artery bypass graft procedures. A preoperative CT scan will be p...
The concept of virtual holonomic constraints is extended to the case of double support, which is characterized by a closed kinematic chain and redundancy in the state variables. An...
Abstract. In this paper, we would propose a novel mechanism of surgical manipulator, which assists the surgeon in precise positioning and handling of surgical devices, like biopsy ...
The control of dynamic systems that undergo an impact collision is both theoretically challenging and of practical importance. An appeal of studying systems that undergo an impact ...
Keith Dupree, Chien-Hao Liang, Guoqiang Hu, Warren...