Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 5, 2023
Robot localization is a crucial task in robotic systems and is a pre-requisite for navigation. In outdoor environments, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have aided towards this direction, alongside laser and visual sensing. Despite their ap...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 5, 2023
Walking in real-world environments involves constant decision-making, e.g., when approaching a staircase, an individual decides whether to engage (climbing the stairs) or avoid. For the control of assistive robots (e.g., robotic lower-limb prostheses...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 5, 2023
Robotic handling of objects is not always a trivial assignment, even in teleoperation where, in most cases, this might lead to stressful labor for operators. To reduce the task difficulty, supervised motions could be performed in safe scenarios to re...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 5, 2023
With increasing demand for efficient archive management, robots have been employed in paper-based archive management for large, unmanned archives. However, the reliability requirements of such systems are high due to their unmanned nature. To address...
Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica
Jun 5, 2023
To the Editor, Although postoperative pain associated with robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is less than pain following the open technique, it remains a fundamental issue as it can be a significant source of discomfort for the patient and ...
European urology focus
Jun 3, 2023
BACKGROUND: Virtual reality (VR) simulators are increasingly being used for surgical skills training. It is unclear what skills are best improved via VR, translate to live surgical skills, and influence patient outcomes.
Journal of robotic surgery
Jun 3, 2023
The correlation between driving skills and the ability to perform robotic surgery have not yet been discussed. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the impact of driving skills on learning robotic surgery using a driving simulator and a robotic...
Computers in biology and medicine
Jun 3, 2023
3D reconstruction of the intra-operative scenes provides precise position information which is the foundation of various safety related applications in robot-assisted surgery, such as augmented reality. Herein, a framework integrated into a known sur...
Annals of surgical oncology
Jun 3, 2023
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Jun 3, 2023
Estimating interaction force is of great significance in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) thanks to its guarantee of interaction safety. To this end, this paper proposes a novel estimation method by leveraging broad learning system (BLS) an...