Angeles / Boulet / Clark Brain, Body and Machine

Proceedings of an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-642-16259-6
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 83, 327 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing

The reader will find here papers on human-robot interaction as well as human safety algorithms, haptic interfaces, innovative instruments and algorithms for the sensing of motion and the identification of brain neoplasms, even a paper on a saxophone-playing robot.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Angeles, Jorge

Boulet, Benoit

Kovecses, Jozsef

Siddiqi, Kaleem

Clark, James J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-Robot Interaction.- 3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning.- Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound and MRI: Comparing Two Approaches on Nine Tumor Cases.- A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration.- Designing a Metric for the Difference between Gaussian Densities.- Physical Asymmetries and Brightness Perception.- A Learning-Based Patient Repositioning Method from Limited-Angle Projections.- Image and Video Region Saliency Based on Space and Motion.- Generalized PCA via the Backward Stepwise Approach in Image Analysis.- Performance of MRF-Based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes.- Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation.- A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies.- Robust Design of 2nd Order Terminal ILC Using ?-Analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach.- Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot.- Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-Driven Haptic Interface.- Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum.- Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality.- Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction.- Sliding-Mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-Steering Mobile Robot.- On the Design and Validation of an Intelligent Powered Wheelchair: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project.- Devon Island as a Proving Ground for Planetary Rovers.- Leader-Follower Cucker-Smale Type Flocking Synthesized via Mean Field Stochastic Control Theory.- Dynamic Locomotion with a Wheeled-Legged Quadruped Robot.- Underactuated Cable-Driven Robots: Machine, Control and Suspended Bodies.- Computing the Rigid-Body Acceleration Field from Nine Accelerometer Measurements.-Singularity Analysis of a Six-Dof Parallel Manipulator Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Gröbner Bases.