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Enhanced spatial–temporal dynamics in pose forecasting through multi-graph convolution networks
Recently, there has been a growing interest in predicting human motion, which involves forecasting future body poses based on observed pose sequences. This task is complex due to modeling spatial and temporal ...
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Compliant Finger Exoskeleton with Telesco** Super-elastic Transmissions
This paper presents the concept, design, and experimental characterization of a compliant finger exoskeleton with telesco** super-elastic transmissions. Nickel-Titanium (Ni-Ti) rods with the super-elastic fe...
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Endoscope navigation with SLAM-based registration to computed tomography for transoral surgery
Minimally invasive transoral surgery (TROS) aims to reduce the trauma and complications, where transoral examination with an endoscope is a vital step. Close to the critical head-neck-brain anatomical structur...
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Transferring optimal contact skills to flexible manipulators by reinforcement learning
Flexible/soft manipulators have the potential to maneuver in confined space and reach deeply-seated targets via curvy trajectories, thus enjoy increasing popularity in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) communit...
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Design analysis and bending modeling of a flexible robot for endoscope steering
Robot assisted endoscopic system with navigation functionalities is emerging as a pivotal role for improving the clinician’s performance in minimally-invasive surgeries, particularly through natural orifices o...
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Analysis of Different Sparsity Methods in Constrained RBM for Sparse Representation in Cognitive Robotic Perception
Cognitive robotic systems nowadays are intensively involving learning algorithms to achieve highly adaptive and intelligent behaviors, including actuation, sensing, perception and adaptive control. Deep learni...
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Drift analysis of mutation operations for biogeography-based optimization
As an essential factor of evolutionary algorithms (EAs), mutation operator plays an important role in exploring the search space, maintaining the diversity of individuals and breaking away local optimums. In m...
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A Paired-Orientation Alignment Problem in a Hybrid Tracking System for Computer Assisted Surgery
Coordinate Alignment (CA) is an important problem in hybrid tracking systems involving two or more tracking devices. CA typically associates the measurements from two or more tracking systems with respect to d...
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Scheduling Value-Based Nested Transactions in Distributed Real-Time Database Systems
Many noticeable studies have focussed on scheduling flat transactions in a distributed real-time database system (RTDBS). However, a nested transaction model has been widely adopted in many real-life applicati...