This paper introduces the Laparobot, a tele-operated surgical robot designed specifically for training surgeons in advanced laparoscopic techniques. The Laparobot allows a student...
Brian F. Allen, Brett Jordan, William Pannell, Cat...
Goal-oriented methods are increasingly popular for elaborating software requirements. They offer systematic support for incrementally building intentional, structural, and operati...
Emmanuel Letier, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&...
FreeWill+ is a framework that aims at integrating various animation techniques for controlling human-like characters. With heterogeneity and multi-layering as its main design prin...
Mapping of features such as texture and geometric detail is an important tool that enhances realism of surface geometry in graphics and animation. This essentially involves a tran...
We present a technique for automatically synthesizing walking and running controllers for physically-simulated 3D humanoid characters. The sagittal hip, knee, and ankle degrees-of...
Jack M. Wang, Samuel R. Hamner, Scott L. Delp, Vla...