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Analysis and Architecture of Clinical Workflow Systems using Agent-Oriented Lifecycle Models
Healthcare executives are grappling with a climate of great change in the healthcare industry. This is coming from a number of sources. First, there...
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Current Status of Computerized Decision Support Systems in Mammography
Breast cancer is one of the most devastating and deadly diseases for women today. Despite advances in cancer treatment, early mammographic detection...
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6 Beamforming Combined with Multi-channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation
For audio signal acquisition, beamforming microphone arrays can be efficiently used for enhancing a desired signal while suppressing...
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4 Optimum Beamforming for Wideband Non-stationary Signals
Array processing techniques strive for extraction of maximum information from a propagating wave field using groups of sensors, which are located at...
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9 On Observing Contact States in Overconstrained Manipulation
Estimation of contact state is important to any multi-point interaction that involves frictional stick/slip phenomena. In particular, when there are...
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B Experimental Setups and Acoustic Environments
In this chapter, the experimental setup and the acoustic environments are described, which are used in this work for illustrating the properties of...
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13 Usability of an Assistive Robot Manipulator: Toward a Quantitative User Evaluation
This chapter describes our research activity on the integration of a robotic arm in the environment of persons with disabilities. People who have...
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2 Rehabilitation Robotics from Past to Present – A Historical Perspective
Popular culture presents the image of a robot as a mechanical, humanoid device, often evil in intent. Those with a slightly more informed technical...
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12 Risk Reduction Mechanisms for Safe Rehabilitation Robots
Safety is one of the most important features of rehabilitation robots. However, strategies for safe rehabilitation robots are not yet clarified. A...
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4 Welfare-Oriented Service Robotic Systems: Intelligent Sweet Home & KARES II
Utopia – it would be a society where the welfare of the people is properly guaranteed. In the society, each constituent would live his/her life with...
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5 “FRIEND” – An Intelligent Assistant in Daily Life
The research and development in the field of rehabilitation robots produced a multiplicity of rehabilitation robots available as off-the- shelf...
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6 GIVING-A-HAND System: The Development of a Task-Specific Robot Appliance
The rapidly changing demographics in industrialized nations create a pressing need for effective personal assistive aids that appeal to elderly and...
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10 A Safety Strategy for Rehabilitation Robots
It was reported previously that many MANUS users thought that the MANUS was useful, but not useful enough to gain totally independent lifestyles for...
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14 Processes for Obtaining a “Manus” (ARM) Robot within the Netherlands
This chapter describes both the current (Anno Domini 2003) and future processes of prescribing the Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM, also known as...
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13 Haptic Interfaces: Collocation and Coherence Issues
Multi-modality, collocation and immersive VE nowadays represents the break-trough barrier of human computer interaction. Typical VE systems...
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6 Efficient and Precise Grasp Planning for Real World Objects
With the development of .exible and highly integrated dexterous grip** devices (e.g. fig.6.1) the research results on grasp and manipulation...
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4 Modelling and Controlling the Compliance of a Robotic Hand with Soft Finger-pads
Compliant pads greatly contribute to increase the robustness and the stability of grasps of robot hands, because of their conformability to the...
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11 Safety Evaluation Method of Rehabilitation Robots
An aged society comes soon. Human-care robots must be realized to nurse aged and disabled persons. Human-care robot will need to work around elderly...
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26 STRING-MAN: A Novel Wire Robot for Gait Rehabilitation
This paper presents a novel robotic prototype for advanced gait rehabilitation. This system integrates sophisticated robotic technology with control...
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1 Advances in Human-Friendly Robotic Technologies for Movement Assistance/Movement Restoration for People with Disabilities
Rehabilitation robots (RR) are expected to play an important role toward the independent life of older persons and persons with disabilities. Such...