Zhiqiang Tan, Kai Yang, Yu Sun, Bo Wu, Huiren Tao, Ying Hu, Jianwei Zhang
{"title":"An Automatic Scoliosis Diagnosis and Measurement System Based on Deep Learning","authors":"Zhiqiang Tan, Kai Yang, Yu Sun, Bo Wu, Huiren Tao, Ying Hu, Jianwei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665296","url":null,"abstract":"Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a three-dimensional structural deformity of the spine which affects 1–4% of adolescents and causes not only deformed appearance but also compromised mental status, pulmonary function, motor function and life quality. Currently, the diagnosis of AIS depends on the measurement of Cobb angle on spine radiographs, which is performed manually by doctors. Intra-observer and inter-observer variation exist in such method and causes errors in diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to design an automatic scoliosis diagnosis and measurement system based on deep learning to improve measurement accuracy and assist doctors in diagnosis. U-net segmentation network was used to segment the spine radiographs. Based on the segmented images, specific positions of upper and lower end vertebrae (UEV and LEV) and slopes of their endplates were identified by minimum outer envelope rectangle and least square method. Subsequently, Cobb angles were measured as angles between superior endplates of UEVs and inferior endplates of LEVs. After comparing manually measured Cobb angles with computer- measured Cobb angles, the result showed that the computer- measured Cobb angles were similar to the manually measured ones. To sum up, this system for automatic measurement of Cobb angle can assist doctors in clinical diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128581812","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":"Alignment of Similar Shapes Based on their Convex Hulls for 3D Object Classification","authors":"Petra Durovic, Marko Filipovic, R. Cupec","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665154","url":null,"abstract":"In order to facilitate true autonomous robot manipulation, object classification becomes inevitable part of advanced robotic vision. Since objects belonging to the same class usually have similar shape, we propose a new method for object alignment based on similarity of their convex hulls. In this paper, the purpose of the developed alignment method is to generate hypotheses for object classification, and return pose of the classified object. The proposed approach consists of generating alignment proposals and evaluation of these proposals by a method commonly used in shape instance detection algorithms. The proposed approach is verified on an object classification benchmark dataset, where the proposed method achieves competitive results in comparison to four state-of-the-art object classification methods.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128647806","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":"Collision Free Navigation of a Flying Robot for Underground Mine Search and Mapping","authors":"Hang Li, A. Savkin, B. Vucetic","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665108","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a method of using an autonomous flying robot to explore an underground tunnel environment and build a 3D map. The measurements and sensors we considered in the presented method are simple and valid in practical UAV engineering. The proposed safe exploration algorithm belongs to a class of probabilistic area search and with a mathematical proof, the performance of the algorithm is analysed. Furthermore, the simulations show that the algorithm can be implemented in sloping tunnels.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129258608","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":"Nondestructive Image De-Blurring Based on Diffraction Blurring Model","authors":"Yangjie Wei, Jieqiong Du, Yongjun Liu","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8664752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8664752","url":null,"abstract":"Image de-blurring is an important research branch in computer vision. Deconvolution methods, which deconvolute the blurred images with a degradation function (or point spread function) according to estimation of the blurring cause, are commonly used in the image de-blurring on macro-scale. However, these methods are difficult to deblur an image captured by a high-magnification microscopy, where the depth-of-field of the microscopy is limit and optical diffraction is obvious, because both depth variation and optical diffraction can result in blurring imaging. Due to the complicated coupling of depth and optical diffraction in micro/nano blurring imaging, the degradation function of each point may be different, and it is not reasonable to estimate it in the geometrical optics where optical diffraction is not considered. Therefore, the accuracy of these deconvolution methods is limit because their degradation functions do not include the influence of optical diffraction. In this paper, we researched the image blurring degradation process based on the theoretical relationship between the blurring degree and the depth variation, as well as optical diffraction, and then proposed an automatic method to calculate the degradation function of every pixel with a relationship between depth information and blurring degree. Finally, a non-destructive image de-blurring method was proposed and validated with different micro/nano scale samples. The experimental result proved the effectiveness and precision of our method.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124650036","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":"Bionic Visual-based Data Conversion for SLAM","authors":"Mingzhu Li, Weimin Zhang, Yongliang Shi, Z. Yao, Zhenshuo Liang, Qiang Huang","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665130","url":null,"abstract":"Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the key function for most mobile robots to achieve autonomous navigation. The traditional visual SLAM uses the camera to acquire data and constructs a sparse or dense 3D map, which is convenient for robot localization but difficult for obstacle avoidance and autonomous navigation. Thus, we propose an innovative data conversion algorithm based on bionic visual characteristics which can construct a two-dimensional accurate map for indoor navigation in this paper. The algorithm has two main parallel threads: Ground Detection and Data Conversion. The ground detection thread detects the ground in real time, and gets the transformation matrix from the camera to the ground based on the geometrical invariability. The data conversion thread first filters the depth data, and then proposes a variable-resolution model based on human visual characteristics, which can keep the conversion time consumption at a low level without affecting the accuracy. Each group of experiments shows that the data converted by our algorithm have high-precision, and can be used to construct the map for navigation accurately.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129659017","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":"Humanoid Robot Gait Planning Based on Virtual Supporting Point","authors":"Xueheng Zhang, Mingguo Zhao","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8664876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8664876","url":null,"abstract":"Linear Inverted Pendulum model (LIPM) is a classical theory of biped robot gait planning. However, the fixed Zero Moment Point (ZMP) of each step does not conform to the laws of human motion. In this paper, we proposed a VSP-based gait planning algorithm to make the ZMP trajectory comply the law of Heel to Toe and smooth the velocity of the center of mass (CoM). We found it remarkable that combining Virtual Supporting Point (VSP) with classical LIPM increases gait stability. The simulation and hardware experimental results on THU-Walker Platform strongly verified our algorithm.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130537108","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}
Wen Wang, Yige Liu, Pengqing Ren, Juanjuan Zhang, Jingtai Liu
{"title":"The characteristics of human-robot coadaptation during human-in-the-loop optimization of exoskeleton control","authors":"Wen Wang, Yige Liu, Pengqing Ren, Juanjuan Zhang, Jingtai Liu","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665057","url":null,"abstract":"Human-in-the-loop (HITL) optimization of exoskeleton control during assisted walking can improve human mobility and reduce the energy cost. This process involves human-robot coadaptation as suggested by prior studies. There was a drop in the same subjects metabolic cost under the same assisted walking condition before and after the optimization process. It means the subjects adapted to walking with the exoskeleton while the exoskeleton learned the optimal control parameters for the subjects. We analyzed the process of human bodies learning to walk with an ankle exoskeleton, aiming to quantify the characteristics of human-robot coadaptation during HITL optimization of exoskeleton control. Data of eleven participants from prior experiments were utilized in this study. We identified similar sample conditions for each participant and investigated the trend of metabolic cost along with the HITL exoskeleton control optimization process. Results showed that the relationship between human metabolic cost and the time past in the optimization cycle approximately followed exponential curves with widespread adaptation rates. For the optimization process of four parameters with each condition sampled for two minutes, the time constants were averaged at 238 ± 207 optimization sample conditions. Our results can provide guidance to the training process of robot assisted human motion.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129175430","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}
J. Valente, Sandra Munniks, Imke de Man, L. Kooistra
{"title":"Validation of a small flying e-nose system for air pollutants control: A plume detection case study from an agricultural machine","authors":"J. Valente, Sandra Munniks, Imke de Man, L. Kooistra","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8664718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8664718","url":null,"abstract":"The interest in using small electrochemical sensors, also known as e-noses, with unmanned aerial vehicles is growing fast. While there are already some attempts to combine these two technologies, there is also evidence that the state-of-the-art is not mature enough, and there are still many research questions to answer. A novel small flying e-nose system configuration is proposed for detecting NO2 and other hazardous chemical compounds outdoors. The small flying e-nose system is composed of a DJI Matrix 100 and a set of AlphaSense electrochemical sensors. The main contribution of this work is the experimental validation of the system for detecting the NO2 plume coming from agricultural machinery. Evaluation and verification tests were conducted in a 100 m2 area, over 10 flight hours, during two days, and under different environment conditions.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129195699","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 Grasp Pose Detection Scheme with an End-to-End CNN Regression Approach","authors":"Hu Cheng, M. Meng","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665219","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we proposed a solution to the problem of grasp pose detection with a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained and tested on the Cornell Grasp Dataset. We treat this task as a regression problem so that our network outputs the location, rotation and size of the grasp directly in a RGB or RGBD image. A novel loss is defined in the back propagation that makes the network select the grasp closest to the ground truth. This loss can prevent the predicted grasp from falling into the average location of the multiple grasp ground truth. We train the network by two cascade steps to make the network learn to predict the locations and rotations of the grasp, respectively. Because the prediction of the rotation is relatively difficult for the objects with irregular shapes, the weights for the loss of the grasp angle are increased during the second step by multiplying a scale factor. The proposed training process is simple and the pipeline is clean as our model is trained from end to end. We achieved a 90.4% grasp prediction accuracy in our experiments. In addition, we proposed a joint training network that generates quantity grasp candidates and classifies them as good or not good for the multiple grasp predictions.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130672414","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":"Sparse Reward Based Manipulator Motion Planning by Using High Speed Learning from Demonstrations","authors":"Guoyu Zuo, Jiahao Lu, Tingting Pan","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665328","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed a high speed learning from demonstrations (LfD) method for sparse reward based motion planning problem of manipulator by using hindsight experience replay (HER) mechanism and deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) method. First, a demonstrations replay buffer and an agent exploration replay buffer are created for storing experience data, and the hindsight experience replay mechanism is subsequently used to acquire the experience data from the two replay buffers. Then, the deep deterministic policy gradient method is used to learn the experience data and finally fulfil the manipulator motion planning tasks under the sparse reward. Last, experiments on the pushing and pick-and-place tasks were conducted in the robotics environment in the gym. Results show that the training speed is increased to at least 10 times as compared to the deep deterministic policy gradient method without demonstrations data. In addition, the proposed method can effectively utilize the sparse reward, and the agent can quickly complete the task even under the low success rate of demonstrations data.","PeriodicalId":417415,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123884784","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}