Restoration of neutral alignment of the leg is an important factor affecting the long-term results of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Recent developments in computer-assisted surgery have focused on systems for improving TKA. In a prospective study two groups of 80 patients undergoing TKA had operations using either a computer-assisted navigation system or a conventional technique. Alignment of ...

In INS (Inertial Navigation System) /GPS (Global Positioning System) integration, nonlinear models should be properly handled. The most popular and commonly used method is the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) which approximates the nonlinear state and measurement equations using the first order Taylor series expansion. On the other hand, recently, some nonlinear filtering methods such as Gaussian S...

Recent research has shown that MT-based sentence alignment is a robust approach for noisy parallel texts. However, using Machine Translation for sentence alignment causes a chicken-and-egg problem: to train a corpus-based MT system, we need sentence-aligned data, and MT-based sentence alignment depends on an MT system. We describe a bootstrapping approach to sentence alignment that resolves thi...

We describe our initial steps toward the realization of a robotic system for assisting fire-fighting and rescue services. The system implements the concept of shared autonomy between the robot and the human operator: the mobile robot performs local navigation, sensing and mapping, while the operator interprets the sensor data and provides strategic navigation goals.

BACKGROUND Computer navigation systems generally establish the rotational alignment axis of the femoral component on the basis of user-defined anatomic landmarks. However, navigation systems can also record knee kinematics and average alignment axes established with multiple techniques. We hypothesized that establishing femoral rotational alignment with the use of kinematic techniques is more a...

MYNORCA is a vision-based navigation system for mobile robots, designed principally for operation in indoor environments. The system uses vision for detecting obstacles and locating natural landmarks. In addition, it is able to solve navigation problems in which the robot's initial location is completely unknown. In this paper, we present an overview of MYNORCA, describe its implementation and ...

MYNORCA is a vision-based navigation system for mobile robots, designed principally for operation in indoor environments. The system uses vision for detecting obstacles and locating natural landmarks. In addition, it is able to solve navigation problems in which the robot's initial location is completely unknown. In this paper, we present an overview of MYNORCA, describe its implementation and ...