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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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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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Homogeneous Semantics Preserving Deployments of Heterogeneous Networks of Embedded Systems
Tagged systems provide a denotational semantics for embedded systems. A heterogeneous network of embedded systems can be modeled mathematically by a...
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Distributed Kalman Filtering and Sensor Fusion in Sensor Networks
The problem of distributed Kalman filtering (DKF) for sensor networks is one of the most fundamental distributed estimation problems for scalable...
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Applications of Connectivity Graph Processes in Networked Sensing and Control
This paper concerns the problem of controlling mobile nodes in a network in such a way that the resulting graph-encoding of the inter-node...
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Delay-Reliability Tradeoffs in Wireless Networked Control Systems
Networked control systems (NCS) require the data to be communicated timely and reliably. However, random transmission errors incurred by wireless...
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Plenary Talk: The Role of Information Theory in Communication Constrained Control Systems
Communication is an important component of distributed, networked, and cooperative control systems. In most current systems the communication aspects...
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Simulation of Large-Scale Networked Control Systems Using GTSNetS
This paper presents a simulation framework for distributed control using wireless sensor networks. The proposed framework is an extension of the...
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Belief Consensus and Distributed Hypothesis Testing in Sensor Networks
In this paper, we address distributed hypothesis testing (DHT) in sensor networks and Bayesian networks using the average-consensus algorithm of...
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Plenary Talk Network-Embedded Sensing and Control: Applications and Application Requirements
The first part of my talk will cover some recent commercially successful applications of networked and embedded sensing and control solutions. These...
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Plenary Talk: Delays in Control over Communication Networks: Characterization, Impact, and Reduction Strategies
The most notable trend in manufacturing over the past five years is probably the move towards networks at all levels of industrial systems. At lower...
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Disturbance Attenuation Bounds in the Presence of a Remote Preview
We study the fundamental limits of disturbance attenuation of a networked control scheme, where a remote preview of the disturbance is available. The...