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Effects of non-uniform stiffness on the swimming performance of a passively-flexing, fish-like foil model.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Simple mechanical models emulating fish have been used recently to enable targeted study of individual factors contributing to swimming locomotion without the confounding complexity of the whole fish body. Yet, unlike these uniform models, the fish b...

Imparting protean behavior to mobile robots accomplishing patrolling tasks in the presence of adversaries.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Providing unpredictable trajectories for patrol robots is essential when coping with adversaries. In order to solve this problem we developed an effective approach based on the known protean behavior of individual prey animals-random zig-zag movement...

A minimum attention control law for ball catching.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Digital implementations of control laws typically involve discretization with respect to both time and space, and a control law that can achieve a task at coarser levels of discretization can be said to require less control attention, and also reduce...

Generalisation, decision making, and embodiment effects in mental rotation: A neurorobotic architecture tested with a humanoid robot.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mental rotation, a classic experimental paradigm of cognitive psychology, tests the capacity of humans to mentally rotate a seen object to decide if it matches a target object. In recent years, mental rotation has been investigated with brain imaging...

Piezoresistive Tactile Sensor Discriminating Multidirectional Forces.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Flexible tactile sensors capable of detecting the magnitude and direction of the applied force together are of great interest for application in human-interactive robots, prosthetics, and bionic arms/feet. Human skin contains excellent tactile sensin...

Evaluation of positive surgical margins in patients undergoing robot-assisted and open radical prostatectomy according to preoperative risk groups.

Urologic oncology
OBJECTIVES: Recent studies showed that robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) represents an oncologically safe procedure in patients with prostate cancer (PCa), where the rate of positive surgical margins (PSMs) might be lower in patients treate...

The Effects of Fluidic Loading on Underwater Contact Sensing with Robotic Fins and Beams.

IEEE transactions on haptics
As robots become more involved in underwater operations, understanding underwater contact sensing with compliant systems is fundamental to engineering useful haptic interfaces and vehicles. Despite knowledge of contact sensation in air, little is kno...

Application of real-time machine learning to myoelectric prosthesis control: A case series in adaptive switching.

Prosthetics and orthotics international
BACKGROUND: Myoelectric prostheses currently used by amputees can be difficult to control. Machine learning, and in particular learned predictions about user intent, could help to reduce the time and cognitive load required by amputees while operatin...