Requirements elicitation for robotic and computer-assisted minimally invasive surgery (2019)
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Nakawala, H., De Momi, E., Tzemanaki, A., Dogramadzi, S., Russo, A., Catellani, M., …Ferrigno, G. (2019). Requirements elicitation for robotic and computer-assisted minimally invasive surgery. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 16(4), 172988141986580. https://doi.org/10.1177/1729881419865805

The robotic surgical systems and computer-assisted technologies market has seen impressive growth over the last decades, but uptake by end-users is still scarce. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive and informed list of the end-u... Read More about Requirements elicitation for robotic and computer-assisted minimally invasive surgery.

Camouflage assessment: Machine and human (2018)
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Volonakis, T. N., Matthews, O. E., Liggins, E., Baddeley, R. J., Scott-Samuel, N. E., & Cuthill, I. C. (2018). Camouflage assessment: Machine and human. Computers in Industry, 99, 173-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2018.03.013

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. A vision model is designed using low-level vision principles so that it can perform as a human observer model for camouflage assessment. In a camouflaged-object assessment task, using military patterns in an outdoor environment,... Read More about Camouflage assessment: Machine and human.

A systematic review of study results reported for the evaluation of robotic rollators from the perspective of users (2018)
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Bauer, J. M., Werner, C., Ullrich, P., Geravand, M., Peer, A., Bauer, J. M., & Hauer, K. (2018). A systematic review of study results reported for the evaluation of robotic rollators from the perspective of users. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 13(1), 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2016.1278470

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness and perception of robotic rollators (RRs) from the perspective of users. Methods: Studies identified in a previous systematic review published on 2... Read More about A systematic review of study results reported for the evaluation of robotic rollators from the perspective of users.

Design of a wearable fingertip haptic device for remote palpation: Characterisation and interface with a virtual environment (2018)
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Tzemanaki, A., Al, G. A., Melhuish, C., & Dogramadzi, S. (2018). Design of a wearable fingertip haptic device for remote palpation: Characterisation and interface with a virtual environment. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5(JUN), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00062

© 2018 Tzemanaki, Al, Melhuish and Dogramadzi. This paper presents the development of a wearable Fingertip Haptic Device (FHD) that can provide cutaneous feedback via a Variable Compliance Platform (VCP). The FHD includes an inertial measurement unit... Read More about Design of a wearable fingertip haptic device for remote palpation: Characterisation and interface with a virtual environment.

Invariance and variability in interaction error-related potentials and their consequences for classification (2017)
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Abu-Alqumsan, M., Kapeller, C., Hintermüller, C., Guger, C., & Peer, A. (2017). Invariance and variability in interaction error-related potentials and their consequences for classification. Journal of Neural Engineering, 14(6), 066015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aa8416

© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd. Objective. This paper discusses the invariance and variability in interaction error-related potentials (ErrPs), where a special focus is laid upon the factors of (1) the human mental processing required to assess interface... Read More about Invariance and variability in interaction error-related potentials and their consequences for classification.

Goal-recognition-based adaptive brain-computer interface for navigating immersive robotic systems (2017)
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Abu-Alqumsan, M., Ebert, F., & Peer, A. (2017). Goal-recognition-based adaptive brain-computer interface for navigating immersive robotic systems. Journal of Neural Engineering, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aa66e0

© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd. Objective. This work proposes principled strategies for self-adaptations in EEG-based Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) as a way out of the bandwidth bottleneck resulting from the considerable mismatch between the low-bandwi... Read More about Goal-recognition-based adaptive brain-computer interface for navigating immersive robotic systems.

Decision-making model for adaptive impedance control of teleoperation systems (2017)
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Sofrony, J., Corredor, J., Sofroni, J., & Peer, A. (2017). Decision-making model for adaptive impedance control of teleoperation systems. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 10(1), 5-16. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2016.2581807

© 2008-2011 IEEE. This paper presents a haptic assistance strategy for teleoperation that makes a task and situation-specific compromise between improving tracking performance or human-machine interaction in partially structured environments via the... Read More about Decision-making model for adaptive impedance control of teleoperation systems.

Local and Remote Cooperation with Virtual and Robotic Agents: A P300 BCI Study in Healthy and People Living with Spinal Cord Injury (2016)
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Hintermuller, C., Guger, C., Tidoni, E., Abu-Alqumsan, M., Leonardis, D., Kapeller, C., …Aglioti, S. M. (2017). Local and Remote Cooperation with Virtual and Robotic Agents: A P300 BCI Study in Healthy and People Living with Spinal Cord Injury. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(9), 1622-1632. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2626391

© 2001-2011 IEEE. The development of technological applications that allow people to control and embody external devices within social interaction settings represents a major goal for current and future brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. Prior r... Read More about Local and Remote Cooperation with Virtual and Robotic Agents: A P300 BCI Study in Healthy and People Living with Spinal Cord Injury.

Evaluation Studies of Robotic Rollators by the User Perspective: A Systematic Review (2016)
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Werner, C., Ullrich, P., Geravand, M., Peer, A., & Hauer, K. (2016). Evaluation Studies of Robotic Rollators by the User Perspective: A Systematic Review. Gerontology, 62(6), 644-653. https://doi.org/10.1159/000444878

© 2016 S. Karger AG, Basel. Background: Robotic rollators enhance the basic functions of established devices by technically advanced physical, cognitive, or sensory support to increase autonomy in persons with severe impairment. In the evaluation of... Read More about Evaluation Studies of Robotic Rollators by the User Perspective: A Systematic Review.

Cerebellar-inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomerbased artificial muscle (2016)
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Pearson, M. J., Wilson, E. D., Assaf, T., Pearson, M., Rossiter, J. M., Anderson, S. R., …Dean, P. (2016). Cerebellar-inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomerbased artificial muscle. Interface, 13(122), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2016.0547

© 2016 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Electroactive polymer actuators are important for soft robotics, but can be difficult to control because of compliance, creep and nonlinearities. Because biological control mec... Read More about Cerebellar-inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomerbased artificial muscle.

An Integrated Decision Making Approach for Adaptive Shared Control of Mobility Assistance Robots (2016)
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Geravand, M., Werner, C., Hauer, K., & Peer, A. (2016). An Integrated Decision Making Approach for Adaptive Shared Control of Mobility Assistance Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 8(5), 631-648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-016-0353-z

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Mobility assistance robots provide support to elderly or patients during walking. The design of a safe and intuitive assistance behavior is one of the major challenges in this context. We present an... Read More about An Integrated Decision Making Approach for Adaptive Shared Control of Mobility Assistance Robots.

Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces (2016)
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Abu-Alqumsan, M., & Peer, A. (2016). Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces. Journal of Neural Engineering, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/13/3/036005

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Objective. Spatial filtering has proved to be a powerful pre-processing step in detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials and boosted typical detection rates both in offline analysis and online SSVEP-based brain-co... Read More about Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces.

Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration (2016)
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Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration. Bioresource Technology, 215, 285-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.004

© 2016 The Authors. This work reports on the novel formation of caustic potash (KOH) directly on the MFC cathode locking carbon dioxide into potassium bicarbonate salt (kalicinite) while producing, instead of consuming electrical power. Using potassi... Read More about Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration.

Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance (2016)
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Geravand, M., Korondi, P. Z., Werner, C., Hauer, K., & Peer, A. (2017). Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance. Autonomous Robots, 41(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-016-9553-5

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Sit-to-stand (STS) transfers are a common human task which involves complex sensorimotor processes to control the highly nonlinear musculoskeletal system. In this paper, typical unassisted and assiste... Read More about Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance.

Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster (2016)
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Assaf, T., Mayne, R., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2016). Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster. Biomimetics, 1(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics1010005

This work illustrates behavior patterns and trajectories of a bio-inspired artificial platform induced by a cellular automata (CA)-based control strategy. The platform embeds both CA control as physical electronic architecture and a distributed hardw... Read More about Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster.

Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture (2015)
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Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., Li, B., Cristiani, P., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture. Water Research, 86, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2015.08.014

© 2015 The Authors. In Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), the recovery of water can be achieved with the help of both active (electro-osmosis), and passive (osmosis) transport pathways of electrolyte through the semi-permeable selective separator. The elec... Read More about Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture.

The formable object: A 24-degree-of-freedom shape-rendering interface (2015)
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Klare, S., & Peer, A. (2015). The formable object: A 24-degree-of-freedom shape-rendering interface. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 20(3), 1360-1371. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2014.2341630

© 2015 IEEE. Interacting with 3-D-shaped objects using bare hands represents a very intuitive way to explore object shapes and offers lots of new opportunities in the field of virtual reality and design. Only a few 3-D shape rendering interfaces are... Read More about The formable object: A 24-degree-of-freedom shape-rendering interface.

Fast catheter segmentation from echocardiographic sequences based on segmentation from corresponding X-ray fluoroscopy for cardiac catheterization interventions (2015)
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Wu, X., Housden, J., Ma, Y., Razavi, B., Rhode, K., & Rueckert, D. (2015). Fast catheter segmentation from echocardiographic sequences based on segmentation from corresponding X-ray fluoroscopy for cardiac catheterization interventions. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 34(4), 861-876. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2014.2360988

© 2014 IEEE. Echocardiography is a potential alternative to X-ray fluoroscopy in cardiac catheterization given its richness in soft tissue information and its lack of ionizing radiation. However, its small field of view and acoustic artifacts make di... Read More about Fast catheter segmentation from echocardiographic sequences based on segmentation from corresponding X-ray fluoroscopy for cardiac catheterization interventions.

Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould (2015)
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Adamatzky, A. I., Sirakoulis, G. C., Georgilas, I. P., Papadopoulos, D. P., Kalogeiton, V. S., Kalogeiton, V., …Adamatzky, A. (2015). Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould. International Journal of General Systems, 44(3), 354-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2014.997527

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In all the living organisms, the self-preservation behaviour is almost universal. Even the most simple of living organisms, like slime mould, is typically under intense selective pressure to evolve a response to ensure thei... Read More about Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould.

Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum (2015)
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Wilson, E. D., Assaf, T., Pearson, M. J., Rossiter, J. M., Dean, P., Anderson, S. R., & Porrill, J. (2015). Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 9(JUL), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2015.00005

© 2015 Wilson, Assaf, Pearson, Rossiter, Dean, Anderson and Porrill. The adaptive filter model of the cerebellar microcircuit has been successfully applied to biological motor control problems, such as the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), and to sensor... Read More about Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum.