7 accepted papers
For pneumatic artificial muscles, it is always considered the more maximum contraction ratio the better. While for human joint assisting applications, PAMs with configurable maximum contraction rate are more suitable because of advantageous safety and adaptability. A PAM based on planar-to-specific-
Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRg-FUS) has become attractive, accredited to its non-invasive nature. However, ultrasound beams focusing and steering is still challenging owing to aberrations induced by soft tissue heterogeneity. In particular for beam motion control to ensure real-ti
Soft robots, with advantages of high adaptability to the environment, relatively easy and simple fabrication process as well as promising performances, have been thoroughly investigated and widely applied lately, the superiority of which has been proved in areas such as medicine, industry, daily lif
Recognition of soft objects is a critical step to tailor policy for dexterous manipulation. Deformation property is one of the valuable tactile cues for inferring the identities of soft objects, especially those having similar appearance features. In this work, we implemented tactual grasping for di
Cable-driven robotic manipulators are desirable for medical applications, for their form factor flexibility after separating actuation from the distal end. However, intended to work under high spatial constraints such as dental or other surgical applications, severe cable elongations will raise cont
In the feature/object tracking of eye-in-hand visual servoing, 2D motion estimation relying only on image plane feedback is easily affected by vision occlusion, blurring, or poor lighting. For the commonly-used template matching method, tracking performance greatly depends on the image quality. Fibe