Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Jul 20, 2021
The use of artificial intelligence technology to analyze human behavior is one of the key research topics in the world. In order to detect and analyze the characteristics of human body behavior after training, a detection model combined with a convol...
Journal of healthcare engineering
Jul 19, 2021
Patient transfer, such as carrying a bedridden patient from a bed to a pedestal pan or a wheelchair and back, is one of the most physically challenging tasks in nursing care facilities. To reduce the intensity of physical labor on nurses or caregiver...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jul 16, 2021
OBJECTIVE: For the revascularization in small vessels such as coronary arteries, we present a guide-wired helical microrobot mimicking the corkscrew motion for mechanical atherectomy that enables autonomous therapeutics and minimizing the radiation e...
Soft robotics
Jul 13, 2021
Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are extensively investigated due to their simple control strategies for producing sophisticated motions. However, the motions or operations of homogeneous SPAs show obvious limitations in some varying curvature interac...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 12, 2021
Ubiquitous health management (UHM) is vital in the aging society. The UHM services with artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) can assist home-isolated healthcare in tracking rehabilitation exercises for clinical diagnosis. This study combined a pe...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 11, 2021
Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) plays a vital role in the field of positioning and navigation. At the heart of VSLAM is visual odometry (VO), which uses continuous images to estimate the camera's ego-motion. However, due to many ...
ACS nano
Jul 9, 2021
Due to their high flexibility and adaptability, bionic robots have great potential in applications such as healthcare, rescue, and surveillance. The flexible actuator is an essential component of the bionic robot and determines its performance. Even ...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Jul 6, 2021
With the comprehensive development of national fitness, men, women, young, and old in China have joined the ranks of fitness. In order to increase the understanding of human movement, many researches have designed a lot of software or hardware to rea...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 2, 2021
In sport science, athlete tracking and motion analysis are essential for monitoring and optimizing training programs, with the goal of increasing success in competition and preventing injury. At present, contact-free, camera-based, multi-athlete dete...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 30, 2021
This paper proposes and implements a lightweight, "real-time" localization system (SORLA) with artificial landmarks (reflectors), which only uses LiDAR data for the laser odometer compensation in the case of high-speed or sharp-turning. Theoretically...