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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Articulated object tracking by rendering consistent appearance parts
— We describe a general methodology for tracking 3-dimensional objects in monocular and stereo video that makes use of GPU-accelerated filtering and rendering in combination wit...
Zachary A. Pezzementi, Sandrine Voros, Gregory D. ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
160views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
A constrained optimization approach to virtual fixtures for multi-handed tasks
— In this work, we have extended the concept of constrained motion control of robots to surgical tasks that require multiple robots. We present virtual fixtures to guide the mot...
Ankur Kapoor, Russell H. Taylor
IROS
2006
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Control Software Design of A Compact Laparoscopic Surgical Robot System
– We have developed a prototype teleoperated robotic surgical system which is modular, compact and easy to use. In this paper, the control software design of the prototype is int...
Ji Ma, Peter J. Berkelman
ICRA
2006
IEEE
114views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Constrained Control for Surgical Assistant Robots
— This paper presents an approach to implement virtual fixtures for surgical robot assistants. Our approach uses a weighted, multi-objective (both linear and nonlinear) constrai...
Ankur Kapoor, Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor
TROB
2010
103views more  TROB 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
A Geometrically Exact Model for Externally Loaded Concentric-Tube Continuum Robots
Continuum robots, which are composed of multiple concentric, precurved elastic tubes, can provide dexterity at diameters equivalent to standard surgical needles. Recent mechanicsba...
D. Caleb Rucker, Bryan A. Jones, Robert J. Webster...