Medical physics
Nov 13, 2021
PURPOSE: Ultrasound (US) imaging is an established imaging modality capable of offering video-rate volumetric images without ionizing radiation. It has the potential for intra-fraction motion tracking in radiation therapy. In this study, a deep learn...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 12, 2021
Most existing wall-climbing robots have a fixed range of load capacity and a step distance that is small and mostly immutable. It is therefore difficult for them to adapt to a discontinuous wall with particularly large gaps. Based on a modular design...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 9, 2021
Recent advances have shown for the first time that it is possible to beat a human with an autonomous drone in a drone race. However, this solution relies heavily on external sensors, specifically on the use of a motion capture system. Thus, a truly a...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 5, 2021
Different from traditional redundant manipulators, the redundant manipulators used in the surgical environment require the end effector (EE) to have high pose (position and orientation) accuracy to ensure the smooth progress of the operation. When an...
Proceedings. Biological sciences
Nov 3, 2021
Quadrupeds exhibit versatile and adaptive running by exploiting the flying phase during the stride cycle. Various interlimb coordination mechanisms focusing on mechanical loads during the stance phase have been proposed to understand the underlying c...
Science robotics
Nov 3, 2021
The active assembly of molecules by nanorobots has advanced greatly since “molecular manufacturing”—that is, the use of nanoscale tools to build molecular structures—was proposed. In contrast to a catalyst, which accelerates a reaction by smoothing t...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 1, 2021
In this article, we study activity recognition in the context of sensor-rich environments. In these environments, many different constraints arise at various levels during the data generation process, such as the intrinsic characteristics of the sens...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Oct 28, 2021
Recent efforts in stimuli-responsive soft materials have enabled wirelessly controlled actuation with increasing degrees of freedom, yielding miniature robots capable of various locomotion in open environments such as on a plane or inside fluids. How...
Soft robotics
Oct 27, 2021
Numerous recent advances in robotics have been inspired by the biological principle of tensile integrity-or "tensegrity"-to achieve remarkable feats of dexterity and resilience. Tensegrity robots contain compliant networks of rigid struts and soft ca...
IEEE transactions on medical imaging
Oct 27, 2021
Recently, deep learning approaches for MR motion artifact correction have been extensively studied. Although these approaches have shown high performance and lower computational complexity compared to classical methods, most of them require supervise...