Infection control / Modes of transmission

Modeling and control of cable-driven continuum robot used for minimally invasive surgery.

Continuum robot has great advantages in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) due to the slenderness and dexterity. But the friction and backlash result in the low trajectory tracking accuracy. This paper aims to study the transmission process of the driving force and the error compensation method. The statics is performed considering the frictional transmission process, and the variation of friction f...

Non-Contact Vibro-Acoustic Object Recognition Using Laser Doppler Vibrometry and Convolutional Neural Networks.

Laser Doppler vibrometers (LDVs) have been widely adopted due to their large number of benefits in comparison to traditional contacting vibration transducers. Their high sensitivity, among other unique characteristics, has also led to their use as optical microphones, where the measurement of object vibration in the vicinity of a sound source can act as a microphone. Recent work enabling full corr...

Design and Gesture Optimization of a Soft-Rigid Robotic Hand for Adaptive Grasping.

Soft robotic hands are inherently safer and more compliant in robot-environment interaction than rigid manipulators, but their flexibility and versati...

Dimensionality reduction strategies for land use land cover classification based on airborne hyperspectral imagery: a survey.

Hyperspectral image (HSI) contains hundreds of adjacent spectral bands, which can effectively differentiate the region of interest. Nevertheless, many...

Using artificial intelligence to optimize delivery of weight loss treatment: Protocol for an efficacy and cost-effectiveness trial.

Gold standard behavioral weight loss (BWL) is limited by the availability of expert clinicians and high cost of delivery. The artificial intelligence ...

Liquid metal droplet motion transferred from an alkaline solution by a robot arm.

The excellent motion performance of gallium-based liquid metals (LMs) upon the application of a modest electric field has provided a new opportunity f...

Mapping the plague through natural language processing.

Pandemic diseases such as plague have produced a vast amount of literature providing information about the spatiotemporal extent, transmission, or cou...

Machine learning of pair-contact process with diffusion.

The pair-contact process with diffusion (PCPD), a generalized model of the ordinary pair-contact process (PCP) without diffusion, exhibits a continuou...

Design of large-span stick-slip freely switchable hydrogels via dynamic multiscale contact synergy.

Solid matter that can rapidly and reversibly switch between adhesive and non-adhesive states is desired in many technological domains including climbi...

Prediction of inter-chain distance maps of protein complexes with 2D attention-based deep neural networks.

Residue-residue distance information is useful for predicting tertiary structures of protein monomers or quaternary structures of protein complexes. M...

Insulator-Defect Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv7.

Existing detection methods face a huge challenge in identifying insulators with minor defects when targeting transmission line images with complex bac...

Dataset with Tactile and Kinesthetic Information from a Human Forearm and Its Application to Deep Learning.

There are physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) applications where the robot has to grab the human body, such as rescue or assistive robotics. Being...

Monitoring Amyloidogenesis with a 3D Deep-Learning-Guided Biolaser Imaging Array.

Amyloidogenesis is a critical hallmark for many neurodegenerative diseases and drug screening; however, identifying intermediate states of protein agg...

Force-Sensorless Identification and Classification of Tissue Biomechanical Parameters for Robot-Assisted Palpation.

The implementation of robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery and medical procedures is an active topic of research in recent years. One of the...

Machine-Learning Classification of Pulse Waveform Quality.

Pulse measurements made using wearable devices can aid the monitoring of human physiological condition. Accurate estimation of waveforms is often diff...

Piton: Investigating the Controllability of a Wearable Telexistence Robot.

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted collaborative activities, travel, and physical contact, increasing the demand for real-time interactions with remote en...

Viscoelasticity assessment of tumoral skin with the use of a novel contact-free palpation methodology based upon surface waves.

The ensuing pilot investigation sheds new light on characterizing tumoral and non-tumoral human skin mechanical properties that will not only assist t...

SF High-Voltage Circuit Breaker Contact Status Detection at Different Currents.

Currently, the online non-destructive testing (NDT) methods to measure the contact states of high-voltage circuit breakers (HVCBs) with SF gas as a qu...

Being watched by a humanoid robot and a human: Effects on affect-related psychophysiological responses.

Eye contact with a humanoid robot has been shown to evoke similar affect and affiliation related psychophysiological responses as eye contact with ano...

Deep learning detector for high precision monitoring of cell encapsulation statistics in microfluidic droplets.

Encapsulation of cells inside microfluidic droplets is central to several applications involving cellular analysis. Although, theoretically the encaps...