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Towards an anthropomorphic design of minimally invasive instrumentation for soft tissue robotic surgery (2012)
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Minimally invasive procedures, such as laparoscopy, have significantly decreased blood loss, postoperative morbidity and length of hospital stay. Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has offered refined accuracy and more ergonomic instrume... Read More about Towards an anthropomorphic design of minimally invasive instrumentation for soft tissue robotic surgery.

Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot (2012)
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Highly active small mammals need to capture prey rapidly and with a high success rate if they are to survive. We consider the case of the Etruscan shrew, which hunts prey including crickets almost as large as itself, and relies on its whiskers (vibri... Read More about Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot.

Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining (2012)
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Artificial tactile whisker sensors demonstrate an approach to localisation [1] that is robust to harsh environmental disturbances, endowing autonomous systems with the ability to operate effectively in confined, noisy and visually occluded spaces, su... Read More about Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining.

Numerical modeling of ADA system for vulnerable road users protection based on radar and vision sensing (2012)
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The protection of vulnerable road users (VRU) remains one of the most challenging problems for our society and several governmental and consumer organization has set targets to reduce the VRU fatality and injury rates. The automotive industry is, the... Read More about Numerical modeling of ADA system for vulnerable road users protection based on radar and vision sensing.

High temperature creep behaviour of gamma-titanium aluminides (gamma-TiAl) (2012)
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Compared to conventional titanium alloys, gamma titanium aluminides (gamma-TiAl)offer highly desirable properties to the design engineer, with relatively high specific stiffness and high temperature capability. However, a significant drawback of this... Read More about High temperature creep behaviour of gamma-titanium aluminides (gamma-TiAl).

The emergence of action sequences from spatial attention: Insight from rodent-like robots (2012)
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Animal behaviour is rich, varied, and smoothly integrated. One plausible model of its generation is that behavioural sub-systems compete to command effectors. In small terrestrial mammals, many behaviours are underpinned by foveation, since important... Read More about The emergence of action sequences from spatial attention: Insight from rodent-like robots.

Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot (2012)
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Future robots may need to navigate where visual sensors fail. Touch sensors provide an alternative modality, largely unexplored in the context of robotic map building. We present the first results in grid based simultaneous localisation and mapping (... Read More about Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot.

Progresses in study of pipeline robot (2012)
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Inhibition of non-linear disturbance based on iterative learning control (2012)
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LMI based H2/H∞ power system stabilizers for large disturbances in power systems with wind plant (2012)
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