gait rehabilitation using body weight support on a treadmill is a recommended rehabilitation technique for neurological injuries, such as spinal cord injury. in this paper, a new robotic orthosis is presented for treadmill training. in the presented design the criteria such as low inertia of robot components, backdrivability, high safety and degrees of freedom based on human walking are conside...

In this paper, we present a method of quantifying ideas from proxemics into a set of spatial features that can be used for recognizing, classifying, and modeling multi-robot and human activities. We validate the features first with position data from multi-robot activities such as flocking, random walk, and boundary following, and then with human activity data. These features are simple and gen...

Remote sensing reflectance (Rrs) classification of coastal waters is a useful tool to monitor environmental processes and manage marine environmental resources. This study presents classification work for data sets that were collected in the Yellow Sea during six cruises (spring and autumn, 2003; summer and winter, 2006/2007; and spring and autumn, 2007). Specifically, we analyzed classificatio...

This thesis addresses spatial representations and reasoning techniques for mobile robot mapping. It provides an analysis of fundamental representations and processes involved. A spatial representation based on shape information is proposed and appropriate shape analysis techniques are developed. Robot mapping’s core problem of determining correspondences between observation and map is tackled o...

OBJECTIVES We studied the development and fitness cost of 2-deoxystreptamine aminoglycoside resistance of Mycobacterium abscessus. METHODS Spontaneous 2-deoxystreptamine aminoglycoside-resistant mutants were selected and the frequency of their appearance was determined. The 3' part of the rrs gene was sequenced to characterize mutations. Additionally, we determined the MICs of aminoglycoside ...

This paper deals with various kinds of mental representations available for linguistic instruction in spatial humanrobot interaction. After a survey of the literature on spatial representations in humans, focussing on dialogical interaction, we present a linguistic-pragmatic method for the analysis of spatial human-robot interaction. This method allows us to gain insights concerning the discour...

We present a distributed multi-robot controller for forming spatially efficient queues of arbitrary numbers of robots. The method is formally analyzed and validated in a conventional robot simulation. This controller is based on sunflower phyllotaxis and inherits its efficient packing properties. Two measures of queue spatial efficiency are proposed and their upper bounds for the presented cont...

In this paper, we present an application of qualitative spatial reasoning technologies for supporting mobile robot tasks. While focusing on detection of interaction ability, we provide a combination of the spatial reasoning calculi RCC-8 and CDC as well as their integration with OWL-based ontologies. An architecture that uses Prolog and complex-event processing implements our approach. We illus...

Paralysis with pancuronium bromide is used in newborn infants to facilitate ventilatory support during respiratory failure. Changes in lung mechanics have been attributed to paralysis. The aim of this study was to examine whether or not paralysis per se has an influence on the passive respiratory mechanics, resistance (Rrs) and compliance (Crs) of the respiratory system in newborn infants. In 3...