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Artificial intelligence and deep learning are increasingly applied in the clinical domain, particularly for early and accurate disease detection using medical imaging and sound. Due to limited trained personnel, there is a growing demand…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Shahran Rahman Alve , Muhammad Zawad Mahmud , Samiha Islam , Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan

We present GazeGrasp, a gaze-based manipulation system enabling individuals with motor impairments to control collaborative robots using eye-gaze. The system employs an ESP32 CAM for eye tracking, MediaPipe for gaze detection, and YOLOv8…

This paper introduces a prototype for a new approach to assistive robotics, integrating edge computing with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and computer vision to enhance the interaction between humans and robotic systems. Our proof of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Pascal Sikorski , Kaleb Yu , Lucy Billadeau , Flavio Esposito , Hadi AliAkbarpour , Madi Babaiasl

Labor shortages in the United States are impacting a number of industries including the meat processing sector. Collaborative technologies that work alongside humans while increasing production abilities may support the industry by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ryan Wright , Sagar Parekh , Robin White , Dylan P. Losey

Remote screening of respiratory diseases has been widely studied as a non-invasive and early instrument for diagnosis purposes, especially in the pandemic. The respiratory sound classification task has been realized with numerous deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Zhao Ren , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Wolfgang Nejdl

Robotic ultrasound (US) imaging has been seen as a promising solution to overcome the limitations of free-hand US examinations, i.e., inter-operator variability. However, the fact that robotic US systems cannot react to subject movements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhongliang Jiang , Nehil Danis , Yuan Bi , Mingchuan Zhou , Markus Kroenke , Thomas Wendler , Nassir Navab

In this study, we present a non-contact respiratory anomaly detection method using incoherent light-wave signals reflected from the chest of a mechanical robot that can breathe like human beings. In comparison to existing radar and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Md Zobaer Islam , Brenden Martin , Carly Gotcher , Tyler Martinez , John F. O'Hara , Sabit Ekin

In pathology and legal medicine, the histopathological and microbiological analysis of tissue samples from infected deceased is a valuable information for developing treatment strategies during a pandemic such as COVID-19. However, a…

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has led to a pandemic. The current testing regime based on Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction for SARS-CoV-2 has been unable to keep up with testing demands, and also suffers from a relatively…

The usage of smartphone-collected respiratory sound, trained with deep learning models, for detecting and classifying COVID-19 becomes popular recently. It removes the need for in-person testing procedures especially for rural regions where…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

As the COVID-19 pandemic expands, the shortening of medical equipment is swelling. A key piece of equipment getting far-out attention has been ventilators. The difference between supply and demand is substantial to be handled with normal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Ali Ahmad Malik , Tariq Masood , Rehana Kousar

Planning a motion for inserting pegs remains an open problem. The difficulty lies in both the inevitable errors in the grasps of a robotic hand and absolute precision problems in robot joint motors. This paper proposes an integral method to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Hao Chen , Juncheng Li , Weiwei Wan , Zhifeng Huang , Kensuke Harada

Robotic three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) imaging has been employed to overcome the drawbacks of traditional US examinations, such as high inter-operator variability and lack of repeatability. However, object movement remains a…

The development of large language models and vision-language models (VLMs) has resulted in the increasing use of robotic systems in various fields. However, the effective integration of these models into real-world robotic tasks is a key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Tomohiro Motoda , Takahide Kitamura , Ryo Hanai , Yukiyasu Domae

Cooperative transport, the simultaneous movement of an object by multiple agents, has been widely observed in biological systems such as ant colonies, which improve efficiency and adaptability in dynamic environments. Inspired by these…

This paper presents a system integration approach for a 6-DoF (Degree of Freedom) collaborative robot to operate a pipette for liquid dispensing. Its technical development is threefold. First, we designed an end-effector for holding and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Junbo Zhang , Weiwei Wan , Nobuyuki Tanaka , Miki Fujita , Kensuke Harada

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease that is not fully reversible and one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. Early detection and diagnosis of COPD can increase the survival rate and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Jalil Ahmed , Sulaiman Vesal , Felix Durlak , Rainer Kaergel , Nishant Ravikumar , Martine Remy-Jardin , Andreas Maier

This paper presents the development and preliminary validation of a control interface based on a sequence matching algorithm. An important challenge in the field of assistive technology is for users to control high dimensionality devices…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Frédéric Schweitzer , Alexandre Campeau-Lecours

Highly constrained manipulation tasks continue to be challenging for autonomous robots as they require high levels of precision, typically less than 1mm, which is often incompatible with what can be achieved by traditional perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Andrew S. Morgan , Bowen Wen , Junchi Liang , Abdeslam Boularias , Aaron M. Dollar , Kostas Bekris

Robotic grasping requires safe force interaction to prevent a grasped object from being damaged or slipping out of the hand. In this vein, this paper proposes an integrated framework for grasping with formal safety guarantees based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yitaek Kim , Jeeseop Kim , Albert H. Li , Aaron D. Ames , Christoffer Sloth