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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
Recent Progress in Local and Global Traversability for Planetary Rovers
Autonomous planetary rovers operating in vast unknown environments must operate efficiently because of size, power and computing limitations. Recently, we have developed a rover c...
Sanjiv Singh, Reid G. Simmons, Trey Smith, Anthony...
IROS
2006
IEEE
126views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
A System for Robotic Heart Surgery that Learns to Tie Knots Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Abstract— Tying suture knots is a time-consuming task performed frequently during Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). Automating this task could greatly reduce total surgery time f...
Hermann Georg Mayer, Faustino J. Gomez, Daan Wiers...
TROB
2010
120views more  TROB 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Design and Control of Concentric-Tube Robots
—A novel approach toward construction of robots is based on a concentric combination of precurved elastic tubes. By rotation and extension of the tubes with respect to each other...
Pierre E. Dupont, Jesse Lock, Brandon Itkowitz, Ev...
IROS
2006
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Third-Person Interactive Control of Humanoid with Real-Time Motion Planning Algorithm
- Interactive avatar control means a control mechanism using AI techniques to improve user navigation efficiency as well as visual realism in a 3D virtual environment. This paper r...
Shu-Wei Hsu, Tsai-Yen Li
IROS
2006
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 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....