{"title":"Polyps auto-detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy images using improved method based on image segmentation","authors":"Yiqun Jia","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7419005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7419005","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a noninvasive instrument that widely used in screening the whole intestine and it has been utilized as a model especially for the examination of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. However, it is numerous images of the detecting result produced by WCE that always burdens the physicians. To solve this problem, it is necessary to combine the manual diagnosis with the image segmentation technology. In this paper we proposed a feasible method by using K-means clustering and localizing region-based active contour segmentation for polyps auto-detection in WCE images. Experimental results shows the method is promising and efficient.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121704806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A practical EMG-driven musculoskeletal model for dynamic torque estimation of knee joint","authors":"Long Peng, Z. Hou, Liang Peng, Weiqun Wang","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418908","url":null,"abstract":"Multichannel electromyography (EMG) signals have been used as human-machine interface (HMI) to control robot systems and prostheses in recent years. EMG-based torque estimation is a widely research method to obtain motion intent. However, the existing torque models usually have the disadvantage of complexity for modeling or time consuming for model tuning. This paper presents a practical EMG-driven musculoskeletal model for the knee joint, which can estimate muscle force and active torque from EMG signals. The EMG-driven model consists of a muscle tendon model and a proposed musculoskeletal model. The muscle tendon model is used to calculate muscle force for each muscle group first. Then the forces are input to the musculoskeletal model to estimate the active joint torque. The dual population genetic algorithm (DPGA) is applied to optimize the model parameters. This tuning process takes only a few minutes and can reduce risk of fallen into local minimum. The ability to accurately predict the active torque of knee joint with relatively low root-mean-square error (RMSE) demonstrates the proposed EMG-driven model has potential applications towards the development of HMI.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125002294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foot trajectory planning of frog swimming based on propulsion mechanism","authors":"Zhang Wei, Liu Gang-feng, Fan Jizhuang, C. Hegao","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418890","url":null,"abstract":"To provide reasonable reference trajectories for frog inspired robot, the bionic trajectory generation was studied in this paper. Though joint trajectories vary with different motion modes, joint speeds are too fast and tuned with the musculoskeletal system. However, mechanical structures of bionic robot are simplified and diver abilities limit the speed, so the method to generate joint trajectories which not only reflect the characteristics of real frog swimming but also are within the limitation of drivers were proposed in this paper. Firstly, swimming mechanism of frog was briefly introduced to analyze motion patterns of hind limbs and webbed feet. Secondly, trajectory (relative to body) planning was divided into hind limb planning and webbed foot planning. Hind limb trajectory planning was conducted via end track planning and acceleration planning, while acceleration planning was operated for webbed foot planning. Then, trajectories could be operated from fast to slow by adjusting duration time of the planned trajectories. Finally, the trajectories were used as input of hydrodynamic simulation to validate the trajectory planning method.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116546823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-relation octomap based Heuristic ICP for air/surface robots cooperation","authors":"Peng Yin, Yuqing He, F. Gu, Jianda Han","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418987","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we focus on the problem of fast and accurate featureless registration of outdoor large scale 3D point-clouds which possess great differences in the aspects of both resolution and view of point. There are two main methods generally used to solve this problem: feature based algorithm and point based one. However, feature based method can only be used in very special environments with clear geometric structure, while traditional point based method can only obtain a relative coarse estimation and is sensitive to initial alignment. Thus, in this paper, a registration algorithm, called Octree Based Multiresolution Heuristic ICP, is proposed. Without relying on the good initial registration and marked features, hybrid-ICP combines different ICP algorithms, and improve the alignments using finer levels of representation. In our outdoor riverside environments experiments, our method outperform the classical point based registration algorithm with an accuracy of 7 times better than classical Generalized-ICP and a speedup 1.6 times.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125628080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bingsong Yang, L. Han, Guangming Li, Wenfu Xu, Bingshan Hu
{"title":"A modular amphibious snake-like robot: Design, modeling and simulation","authors":"Bingsong Yang, L. Han, Guangming Li, Wenfu Xu, Bingshan Hu","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7419054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7419054","url":null,"abstract":"Snake-like robots are a class of hyper-redundant bionic robots. They have small cross-section and many degrees of freedom (DOFs), making them ideally suited to travel on confined spaces such as underwater caves, sunken vessels, collapsed buildings, and so on. Especially, an amphibious snake-like robot can move both on ground and underwater. In this paper, we proposed a kind of amphibious snake robot with modularized joints, controllers, and structures. It can perform tasks such as maritime accident rescue, amphibious environment detection, emergency response and life rescue, meeting the requirement on many fields. This robot is composed by 10 modularized joints with new structure. Each joint has 2 DOFs (pitch and yaw), which make the robot locomote in three-dimensional agilely. All the revolute joints are arranged in the configuration of Pitch-Yaw-Pitch-Yaw (abbreviated as PYPY structure). With this configuration, the robot has very dexterous movement ability. Then, we derived the analytical kinematics equations, based on which we planned the typical gait for it. At last, the dynamic model including the ground and aquatic environment was created by using Webots. The simulation study on typical cases was performed and the simulation results verified the mechanical design, kinematics and gait planning of the robotic system.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128034456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the machining stability in milling thin-walled plate","authors":"Sheng Qu, Ji-bin Zhao, Tian-Duo WAng","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7419023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7419023","url":null,"abstract":"The thin-walled plate parts are widely used in the aeronautical industry. Research on the machining stability in end milling of thin-walled plate is of great significance to improve the materials remove rates and optimize milling parameters. Analyzing the influence of milling parameters on the milling stability is conducive to choosing appropriate cutter and milling machine in actual milling. In this study, statistical variances of the dynamic displacements are employed as a chatter detection criterion to acquire the stability lobe diagram. The milling experiment results show that the obtained stability lobe diagram can predict the stability domain well. Based on this stability theory, the influences of modal parameters and tooth number on the machining stability are analyzed systematically by simulation, which is significant for choosing an appropriate cutting condition.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122474737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ryo Kuramachi, Akihito Ohsato, Y. Sasaki, H. Mizoguchi
{"title":"G-ICP SLAM: An odometry-free 3D mapping system with robust 6DoF pose estimation","authors":"Ryo Kuramachi, Akihito Ohsato, Y. Sasaki, H. Mizoguchi","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418763","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes an odometry-free 3D mapping system that combines a LIDAR and a inertial sensor. The proposed system achieved robust 6DoF pose estimation for arbitrary motion and is implemented as a hand-held unit to make use of simplified mobile mapping applications. The pose estimation algorithm is based on \"Velodyne SLAM\" which is a state of the art ICP based SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) method using only point cloud data. We added 3DoF inertial information to process the point cloud correction and the position prediction. Compared to the previous method, the proposed method is robust to rotary motion and works for fast and large change of sensor position and orientation. The results demonstrate effective operation in various environments and we confirmed the improvement of the self-position estimation and mapping performance.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122690227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new survey adjustment method for laser tracker relocation","authors":"An Wan, Jing Xu, Zonghua Zhang, Ken Chen","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7419695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7419695","url":null,"abstract":"The relocation function is frequently used in the application of Laser Tracker. However, in large component assembly, since the laser tracker would be blocked by the large-size component, the number and distribution of fiducial points can hardly meet the requirement of laser tracker relocation, resulting in a low relocation accuracy. To solve this problem, we present a new laser tracker relocation method based on survey adjustment, which reduces the fiducial point location error by survey adjustment, thereby improving the laser tracker relocation accuracy. Simulations show that the proposed method improves the laser tracker relocation accuracy clearly especially in large component assembly.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127748741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenichi Murakami, Y. Yamakawa, T. Senoo, M. Ishikawa
{"title":"Motion planning for catching a light-weight ball with high-speed visual feedback","authors":"Kenichi Murakami, Y. Yamakawa, T. Senoo, M. Ishikawa","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418790","url":null,"abstract":"High-speed manipulation has great potential to produce new robotic skills by exploiting the features of high-speed motion. The purpose of this study is to catch a lightweight ball with a high-speed hand-arm system and high-speed visual feedback. One of the main problems in catching a high-speed moving lightweight ball is that the ball easily bounces off the hand after hitting the hand. Therefore in this paper, we propose a catching strategy that reduces the relative velocity between the hand and the ball. We show experimental results of a high-speed manipulator catching a ball.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132638514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design method of non-circular pulleys for pneumatic-driven musculoskeletal robots that generate specific direction force by one-shot valve operations","authors":"Yuya Tsuneoka, I. Mizuuchi","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418826","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a design method for pneumatic-driven musculoskeletal robots that generate specific direction force. In a dynamic motion, it is often the case that a part of a robot generates specific direction force. Supplying air to muscles contributing to the motion during the motion is desired to realize such motion with discontinuous control system using ON/OFF valves. A mechanism distributing joint torque for each joint is necessary to realize the motion with maximum air supplying. We use a variable moment arm system to distribute joint torque. We propose a design method to determine moment arms of the musculoskeletal systems. In the method, we calculate joint torque that is necessary for a motion and tension of the muscles, and determine moment arms from the joint torque and the tension. In this paper, we developed a one legged jumping robot using non-circular pulleys based on the design method, and verified that the robot generated force as designed.","PeriodicalId":325536,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133209488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}