We present a human-robot interface for projecting information on arbitrary planar surfaces by sharing a visual understanding of the workspace. A compliant 7-DOF arm robot endowed with a pico-projector and a depth sensor has been used for the experiment. The perceptual capabilities allows the system to detect geometry features of the environment which are used for superimposing undistorted proje...

COOPERATIVE ROBOTS Mark E. Cambron and Koji Fujiwara Center for Intelligent Systems Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN USA ABSTRACT This paper describes a robotic system for feeding the physically challenged. A prototype intelligent robotic aid system called the ISAC (Intelligent Soft Arm Control) is being developed for the service sector. Recently we have begun to integrate a HERO 2000 mobile...

Assistive robotic arms hold great potential to assist individuals with motor impairments in performing pick-andplace tasks, object retrieval tasks, or even assist with personal hygiene and feeding. There are about 150,000 people in the United States who could benefit from using such assistive technology [4]. However, robotic arms typically have a much higher number of controllable degrees of fr...

This paper puts forward a real-time angular tracking (motion capture) system for a low cost upper limb exosuit based on sensor fusion; which is integrated by an elastic sleeve-mitten, two inertial measurement units (IMU), two flex sensors and a wireless communication system. The device can accurately detect the angular position of the shoulder (flexion-extension, abduction-adduction and interna...

It is difficult to control the movement of the robot arm due to its nonlinear structure. PID controller is still in the world because of its simplicity in designing this controller as the main controller. The nonlinear control technique is very complicated, and this is not very interesting in the controller. While fuzzy control has a better performance, it incorporates a fuzzy control with ...

The use of robotic technologies for caregiving and assistance has become a very interesting research topic in the field robotics. Towards this goal, researchers at Politecnico di Torino are developing solutions indoor assistance. This paper presents D.O.T. PAQUITOP project, which aims mobile assistant hospital environment. robot is composed custom omnidirectional platform, named PAQUITOP, comme...

We present a novelapproach to path planning for robotic manipulators, in which paths are produced via iterative optimisation the latent space of generative model robot poses. Constraints incorporated through use constraint satisfaction classifiers operating on same space. Optimisation leverages gradients our learned models that provide simple way combine goal reaching objectives with satisfacti...

Image-based surgical techniques can support minimally invasive keyhole neurosurgery through the segmentation of computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging, optimal surgical planning, and surgical guidance. Keyhole neurosurgery requires automatic surgical planning and accuracy guidance for a target of the non-invasive or minimally invasive treatment of an anatomical structure. For support...