Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Deep Learning Harmonization of Multi-Vendor MRI for Robust Intervertebral Disc Segmentation

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides enhanced soft tissue contrast and high spatial resolution. However, the relationship between intensity values among soft tissues in MRI is inconsistent, even when obtained under the same conditions ...

Cultural Robotics: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture

In this paper, we have investigated the concept of “Cultural Robotics” with regard to the evolution of social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture, the potential development of a culture between human...

Novel Blended Learning on Artificial Intelligence for Medical Students: Qualitative Interview Study

Abstract BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming increasingly relevant in everyday clinical practice, with Food and Drug Administration–approved AI solutions now available in many specialties. This developmen...

Multisensor Fire Detection System Mobile Robot as a Learning Media in Firefighting Robotic Course

Firefighting Robotic technology has been used for a long time to achieve aviation safety and security goals. The research is deemed necessary because of some related issues: 1) A pressing need for lecturers and students to have access to le...

Autonomous Collision Avoidance at Sea: A Survey

In this survey, results from an investigation on collision avoidance and path planning methods developed in recent research are provided. In particular, existing methods based on Artificial Intelligence, data-driven methods based on Machine...

Learning Robotics, with Robotics, by Robotics

Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?

About half a billion years ago, life on earth experienced a short period of very rapid diversification called the “Cambrian Explosion.” Many theories have been proposed for the cause of the Cambrian Explosion, one of the most provocative be...

Service Robots and Robotics

Service robots serve a wide range of people in residential, commercial, industrial, military, and many more applied fields. Service Robots and Robotics: Design and Application offers the latest research within the field, combining a mixture...

LPMP: A Bio-Inspired Model for Visual Localization in Challenging Environments

Autonomous vehicles require precise and reliable self-localization to cope with dynamic environments. The field of visual place recognition (VPR) aims to solve this challenge by relying on the visual modality to recognize a place despite ch...

Iterative Learning Method for In-Flight Auto-Tuning of UAV Controllers Based on Basic Sensory Information

With an increasing number of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), solutions supporting the improvement in their precision of operation and safety of autonomous flights are gaining importance. They are particularly crucial in transpor...

An Optimization Model for Reliability Improvement and Cost Reduction Through EV Smart Charging

There is a general concern that the increasing penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) will result in higher aging failure probability of equipment and reduced network reliability. The electricity costs may also increase, due to the exacerba...

PZT Ferroelectric Synapse TFT With Multi-Level of Conductance State for Neuromorphic Applications

To fundamentally solve the bottleneck of Von Neumann’s computing architecture, a neuromorphic thin-film transistor (NTFT) employing Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 (PZT) was investigated. The indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) channel back gate TFT struc...

Robot Learning from Demonstration in Robotic Assembly: A Survey

Learning from demonstration (LfD) has been used to help robots to implement manipulation tasks autonomously, in particular, to learn manipulation behaviors from observing the motion executed by human demonstrators. This paper reviews recent...

probabilistic robotics

Field Robot Event is an annual competition for small field robots intended for student teams. Field Robot project has been seen as a motivating challenge for project-based learning as it results to a working prototype. In Finland the team h...

A commentary of Remote everything in MIT Technology Review 2021

Remote technology refers to applications that rely on wireless/wired network communication technology to enable the effective interconnection of multiple terminals distributed in different geographical locations, which helps to achieve effe...

Developmental Robotics

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's cognitive development. Developmental robotics is a collaborative and in...

Robot Rights

A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots. We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly ...

Two decades of breakthroughs: charting the future of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Abstract The Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER) has become a major actor for the dissemination of knowledge in the scientific community, bridging the gaps between innovative neuroengineering and rehabilitation. Major fiel...

Fast‐Tracker 2.0: Improving autonomy of aerial tracking with active vision and human location regression

Abstract In recent years, several progressive studies promote the development of aerial tracking. One of the representative studies is our previous work Fast‐Tracker which is applicable to various challenging tracking scenarios. However, it...

PeriSim: A Simulator for Optimizing Peristaltic Table Control

Peristaltic conveyance can be used for the sorting and transport of delicate and nonrigid objects such as meat or soft fruit. The non‐linearity and stochastic behavior of peristaltic systems make them difficult to control. Optimizing contro...