{"title":"A developmental constraint driven approach to developmental robotic hand-eye coordination","authors":"F. Chao, Haixiong Lin, Min Jiang, Changle Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491237","url":null,"abstract":"Robotic hand-eye coordination plays an important role in dealing with real time environment; and the learning procedure of this skill affects the fundamental framework of robotic cognition. Theories from developmental psychology have motivated the appearance of cognitive developmental robotics; however, several important features within infant developmental procedure have not been introduced into researches on developmental robotics. This paper proposes a new approach to robotic hand-eye coordination by imitating the developmental progress of human infant. The work employs a brain-like neural network system to learn hand-eye coordination. The learning procedure is driven by developmental constraints, the robot starts to learn under fully constrained conditions, when the system becomes saturated, a new constraint is assigned to the robot; the robot needs to learn this new conditions again, until the all contained conditions have been overcome. The work is supported by experimental evaluation, which shows that the new approach is able to drive the robot to own the hand-eye coordination ability autonomously, and the robot also behaves similar developmental progress with human infants'.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121210500","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}
Johannes Schwaiger, M. Kagerer, M. F. Traeger, S. Gillen, M. Dobritz, J. Kleeff, H. Feußner, T. Lüth
{"title":"Manufacturing of patient-specific pancreas models for surgical resections","authors":"Johannes Schwaiger, M. Kagerer, M. F. Traeger, S. Gillen, M. Dobritz, J. Kleeff, H. Feußner, T. Lüth","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491098","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Patient-specific models of organs improve the planning of surgical resections and the intraoperative approach. In particular, pancreatic cancer surgery can benefit from a manufactured, patient-specific model. Therewith, the complex anatomical structures of and around the pancreas, especially the vessels, can be visualized. Methods: Several CT data sets showing the pancreas / pancreatic cancer were segmented. A special software system was used which allows segmentation of different tissues and export of three dimensional model data. A patient-specific model containing the pancreas, pancreatic cancer, arteries and veins was created for each case using rapid prototyping technologies. Different prototyping techniques were applied to show details and anatomical structures within the pancreas. Results: The patient-specific models of the pancreas / pancreatic cancer allowed better visualization of the three-dimensional anatomical structure as well as the perception of size and relations of dimensions and volume. Additionally, the vessels and the cancer within the pancreas were highlighted. Conclusions: The described procedure of creating patient-specific models of the pancreas promises advantages for pre-and intraoperative planning of pancreatic cancer surgery.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127106785","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":"Robot's remote real-time navigation controlled by smart phone","authors":"Qian Wang, W. Pan, Mo Li","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491321","url":null,"abstract":"This paper realizes robot remote real-time navigation system by using smart phone. The smart phone was used for the displayer and command receiver, and the control commands and compressed video stream was transmitted on Internet between the robot and smart phone, thus a real-time video feedback was developed. According to the situation of communication, the sending frame rate of the video and robot's velocity were adjusted automatically. Furthermore an obstacles picture and shake were designed on the smart phone to warm the dangerous closeness between robot and obstacles. Therefore, the security of the robot was enhanced and the defects were overcome that limited computational power, display screen, communication bandwidth and large network delay. Proved by experiment, this robot real-time navigation system was portable, flexible, simple to use and can be used anywhere at any time.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125174315","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":"Statistical atlas based registration and planning for ablating bone tumors in minimally invasive interventions","authors":"X. Kang, Hongliang Ren, Jing Li, W. Yau","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491033","url":null,"abstract":"Bone tumor ablation has been a viable treatment in a minimally invasive way compared with surgical resections. In this paper, two key challenges in the computer-assisted bone tumor ablation have been addressed: 1) establishing the spatial transformation of patient's tumor with respect to a global map of the patient using a minimum number of intra-operative images and 2) optimal treatment planning for large tumors. Statistical atlas is employed to construct the global reference map. The atlas is deformably registered to a pair of intra-operative fluoroscopy images, constructing a patient-specific model, in order to reduce the radiation exposure to the sensitive patients such as pregnant and infants. The optimal treatment planning system incorporates clinical constraints on ablations and trajectories using a multiple objective optimization, which obtains optimal trajectory planning and ablation coverage using integer programming. The proposed system is presented and validated by experiments.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126068003","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":"Singularity-free path planning of dual-arm space robot for keeping the base inertially stabilized during target capturing","authors":"Wenfu Xu, Houde Liu, Y. She, Bin Liang","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491186","url":null,"abstract":"Compared with a single-arm space robot, a dual-arm or multi-arm system has much more dexterity and flexibility, and can complete more complex tasks. In this paper, oordinated path planning methods are proposed for a dual-arm space robotic system to capture a target and stabilize the base at the same time. Two typical applications are considered — keeping the centroid of the base fixed (approximately; the same below), and keeping the pose (attitude and the centroid position) of the base fixed synchronously. Firstly, the concept “Base Centroid Virtual Manipulator” is presented, and its kinematic model is directed. Based on the resolution of the position-level kinematic equation, the motion of the balance arm for stabilize the base's centroid is planned. Furthermore, combining with the control of reaction flywheel, whose angular speed is determined according to the angular momentum conservation law, the base's attitude and centroid can be kept fixed at the same time. The proposed methods overcome the singularity problem, which is un-avoidable for those based on differential kinematics.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126931255","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 and implementation of Hot-line Working Robot master-slave manipulator","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491309","url":null,"abstract":"The Hot-line Working Robot is a kind of live working equipment developed for distribution live line work which is safe, reliable. A force feedback master-slave teleoperation system is designed, which consists of a force feedback master-hand, a slave-hand, and force-feedback control module of master-slave pattern. Design and control method of the force-feedback master-hand, slave-hand and motion control system are introduced in detail, mainly including hardware selection of controller, hydraulic motor, sensors and so on and the flow chart of control system. Finally, introduce the system's position servo control and bilateral force feedback control in particular, and comparing two control methods of position tracking through the MATLAB simulation, which have the certain reference value for the teleoperation robot research.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115023067","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":"Tele-impedance control of a variable stiffness prosthetic hand","authors":"E. Hocaoğlu, V. Patoglu","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491192","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a variable stiffness prosthetic hand and present its surface electromyography (sEMG) interface for tele-impedance control. Such an interface, together with variable stiffness actuation (VSA), enables the amputee to modulate the impedance of the prosthetic limb to properly match the requirements of the task at hand, while performing activities of daily living. Both the desired position and stiffness of the hand are estimated through sEMG signals and these estimates are employed to control the VSA hand prosthesis. In particular, regulation of finger impedance is managed through the impedance measurements of the intact forearm; this control takes place naturally and automatically as the amputee interacts with the environment, while position of the hand prosthesis is regulated intentionally by the amputee through the estimated position of the thumb, extracted from sEMG signals of the dysfunctional agonistic and antagonistic thumb muscles that are embedded in the forearm. The proposed approach is advantageous, since the impedance regulation takes place naturally from task to task or during execution of a single task without requiring amputees' attention and diminishing their functional capability. Consequently, the proposed interface does not require long training periods or interfere with control of intact body segments, and provides amputee with easiness in use. The performance of the tele-impedance control of the VSA hand prosthesis is experimentally evaluated. Experimental results indicate that both position and stiffness can be adequately estimated using sEMG signals and regulated through VSA.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115054341","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":"CPG parameter search for a biomimetic robotic fish based on particle swarm optimization","authors":"Zhengxing Wu, Junzhi Yu, M. Tan","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491026","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the parameter search issue of a Central Pattern Generator (CPG) governed fishlike swimming. Since the CPG parameters involving amplitudes, frequencies, and phase lags are closely related to the propulsive performance, an idea optimizing the CPG characteristic parameters for the maximum propulsive speed is formed and implemented. Specifically, a dynamic model of robotic fish swimming using Kane's method is developed to guide the primary parameter search. A particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is further employed to optimize the CPG parameters for an enhanced performance. Numerical simulations and robotic experiments superior to previously published results are finally given, validating the effectiveness of the PSO-based search scheme.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117240494","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":"Development and depth control of a robotic fish mimicking cownose ray","authors":"Chuanmeng Niu, Lige Zhang, S. Bi, Yueri Cai","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491068","url":null,"abstract":"A robotic fish mimicking cownose ray is developed and a fuzzy depth control method is presented in this paper. With dosoventrally flattened body wich is disigned by imitating body shape of cownose ray, the robotic fish has preferable pitch stability. A tail-unit, which consists of a pair of horizontal tails and a vertical tail, is used to realize turning motion in the horizontal plane and up-and-down motion in the vertical plane. By adjusting rotation angles of the horizontal tail, the robotic fish can swim upward or downward. Due to the complex hydrodynamics and uncertaintyies exist in the environment, fuzzy logic method is applied to realize automatic depth control of the robotic fish. The experimental results on the prototype verify that the fuzzy logic depth control method is effective in design and implemention.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129485465","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":"Study of composite fuzzy control of dissolved oxygen in a sequencing batch reactor pilot process of synthetic papermaking wastewater","authors":"W. Shen, E. Tao, Li Ning, Tianlong Liu","doi":"10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491143","url":null,"abstract":"The studies on the automatic control strategy of papermaking wastewater treatment process have always been sparse for a long time. During the process of treatment, the oxygen concentration in the wastewater is a key substrate in animal cell metabolism and its consumption is a parameter of great interest for the monitoring. This paper introduces an effective and robust control strategy to control the dissolved oxygen concentration in a pilot sequencing batch reactor of wastewater treatment process. For comparison, four control strategies are tested and evaluated: ON/OFF, PID, fuzzy and composite fuzzy control strategies. The control results with composite fuzzy control strategy show that, the controlled dissolved oxygen concentration is around the set point with 0.05 standard deviation and 3.5 minutes rising time, but the good controlling performance is obtained at the price of relatively high aeration volume for the heavier pollution load. It takes less time than that of the other strategies to arrive the ammonia valley, which shows its good ability of chemical oxygen demand removal. From the compared results of these four control strategies, we can conclude that the proposed composite fuzzy control strategy is proved to be a robust and effective controller for the DO concentration of synthetic papermaking wastewater.","PeriodicalId":426468,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128208631","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}