Multi-limb, mobile robotic systems will need to apply large forces over large ranges of motion. This paper presents the Force-Workspace Approach which can be used to plan the activities of such systems allowing them to execute such tasks without violating actuation limits, frictional constraints with their environments, and joint range of motion limits. The technique is applied to a robotic cli...

OBJECTIVE To detail robotic procedure development and clinical applications for mitral valve, biliary, and gastric reflux operations, and to implement a multispecialty robotic surgery training curriculum for both surgeons and surgical teams. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Remote, accurate telemanipulation of intracavitary instruments by general and cardiac surgeons is now possible. Complex technolog...

conducted. Most studies, including this study, have reported that robotic colorectal surgery is safe and feasible based on short-term outcomes [1-4]. Baek et al. [5], based on a threeyear follow-up, reported that robotic rectal surgery could be carried out safely in terms of recurrence and survival rates. However, all such studies are limited by small sample size and by the fact that they were ...

adequate coverage is one of the main problems for distributed wireless sensor networks and the effectiveness of that highly depends on the sensor deployment scheme. given a finite number of sensors, optimizing the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and save power of sensors for movement to target location to adequate coverage. in this paper, we apply fuzzy logic system to...

Awareness and autonomous interaction with the environment in a robotic system is the base of the new discipline of machine consciousness. In this paper we present the results of a first attempt in order to engineer these robotic systems by applying a Situational Method Engineering approach that extends PASSI and to create a model for conscious systems.

Software development for robotic systems require knowledge from several domains. This paper highlights the application of domain modeling in SafeRobots Framework for designing robotic systems. We discuss how heterogeneous domain models can be modeled and integrated for systematic software development, and how it can be employed in intelligent model evolution.