Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 8, 2020
The human-in-the-loop technology requires studies on sensory-motor characteristics of each hand for an effective human-robot collaboration. This study aims to investigate the differences in visuomotor control between the dominant (DH) and non-dominan...
Journal of medical Internet research
Oct 29, 2020
Patient-reported assessments are transforming many facets of health care, but there is scope to modernize their delivery. Contemporary assessment techniques like computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and machine learning can be applied to patient-repor...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Oct 16, 2020
This paper considers the prespecified-time synchronization issue of switched coupled neural networks (SCNNs) under some smooth controllers. Different from the traditional finite-time synchronization (FTS), the synchronization time obtained in this pa...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Sep 2, 2020
Physical interactions within virtual environments are often limited to visual information within a restricted workspace. A new system exploiting a cable-driven parallel robot to combine visual and haptic information related to environmental physical ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 25, 2020
Physical rehabilitation therapies for children present a challenge, and its success-the improvement of the patient's condition-depends on many factors, such as the patient's attitude and motivation, the correct execution of the exercises prescribed b...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Aug 20, 2020
In this paper, we study an event-driven H control problem of continuous-time nonlinear systems. Initially, with the introduction of a discounted cost function, we convert the nonlinear H control problem into an event-driven nonlinear two-player zero-...
PloS one
Aug 14, 2020
Piano is a complex instrument, which humans learn to play after many years of practice. This paper investigates the complex dynamics of the embodied interactions between a human and piano, in order to gain insights into the nature of humans' physical...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jul 30, 2020
In this paper, a novel integral reinforcement learning (IRL)-based event-triggered adaptive dynamic programming scheme is developed for input-saturated continuous-time nonlinear systems. By using the IRL technique, the learning system does not requir...
Surgical endoscopy
Jul 22, 2020
BACKGROUND: Most currently used surgical robots have no force feedback; the next generation displays forces visually. A novel single-port robotic surgical system called FLEXMIN has been developed. Through an outer diameter of 38 mm, two instruments a...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jul 22, 2020
It is well-known that artificial neural networks are universal approximators. The classical existence result proves that, given a continuous function on a compact set embedded in an n-dimensional space, there exists a one-hidden-layer feed-forward ne...