8 accepted papers
Learning from demonstration effectively transfers human manipulation skills to robots. It can be especially useful for imitating industrial manipulation tasks which are performed by humans and are difficult to model such as deformable object manipulation. Manipulation of deformable objects often req…
This paper addresses the problem of surrounding and tracking dynamic groups of moving targets with unknown velocities using a team of mobile robots. We introduce a control strategy for multi-robot systems that continuously maintains a safety distance between each robot and the convex hull of the tar
This paper describes a new type of soft robotic grippers with variable stiffness to grasp efficiently a wide variety of objects. The gripper includes two sections, a pneumatic chamber for actuation and a tipping section for adjusting stiffness and shape adaptation. The tipping section consists of Ma
In mini-invasive surgery, the laparoscopic ultra-sound probe is visible in the laparoscopic image. We address the problem of estimating the probe pose with respect to the laparoscope without using markers and additional sensors. We propose the first method using a single standard laparoscopic monocu
In mini-invasive surgery, the laparoscopic ultra-sound probe is visible in the laparoscopic image. We address the problem of estimating the probe pose with respect to the laparoscope without using markers and additional sensors. We propose the first method using a single standard laparoscopic monocu…
Dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) provide an effective method of learning manipulation skills from human demonstration. DMPs can be especially useful for imitating industrial manipulation tasks which are performed by humans and are difficult to model, for instance, deformable object manipulation. I…
Microscale robots introduce great perspectives into many medical applications such as drug delivery, minimally invasive surgery, and localized biometric diagnostics. Fully automatic microrobots' real-time detection and tracking using medical imagers are actually investigated for future clinical tran
Micro-scale robots introduce great prospective into many different medical applications such as targeted drug delivery, minimally invasive surgery and localized bio-metric diagnostics. This research presents a method for object detection and tracking system of a chain-like magnetic microsphere robot…