7 accepted papers
Long-term working in fixed postures often leads to muscle fatigue and musculoskeletal disorders. Existing passive exoskeletons for overhead tasks introduce resistance during arm lowering, while active exoskeletons face limitations due to their weight and lack of comfort. To address these challenges,
Surgeons are frequently subjected to prolonged unnatural postures, such as sustained neck flexion during surgical procedures, increasing their susceptibility to work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). Despite the prevalence of such issues, there remains a scarcity of ergonomic solutions that
3D Gaze estimation is a challenging task due to two main issues. First, existing methods focus on analyzing dense features (e.g., large pixel regions), which are sensitive to local noise (e.g., light spots, blurs) and result in increased computational complexity. Second, an eyeball model can corresp…
The adoption of variable stiffness actuators allows robots to take advantages of both rigid and soft structures. Jamming based variable stiffness structures are receiving increased attentions due to advantages of light weight, easy fabrication, and so on. However, the maximum bending stiffness and s
To achieve more dexterous surgical operations, development of robots with more degrees of freedom (DOFs) is becoming one of the main trends for surgical robot research. However, manipulation complexity is therefore increased and it is difficult for surgeons to control all the DOFs with two hands alo
Powered hip exoskeletons, in combination with passive prostheses, have been recently proposed to improve the economy and pattern of walking of lower-limb amputees within clinical scenarios. However, for everyday life support, a real-time control strategy that can accurately recognize different locom
Probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) is a vital technology to realize <i>in-vivo</i> imaging of the organ surface in real-time. However, the field of view (FOV) of pCLE is too small to get a full picture of targeted tissues for diagnosing. It is recognized that collecting the image strea