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Exploring multimodal gait rehabilitation and assistance through an adaptable robotic platform (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Otálora, S., Sierra, S. D., Ballén-Moreno, F., Munera, M., & Cifuentes, C. A. (2023). Exploring multimodal gait rehabilitation and assistance through an adaptable robotic platform. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (10449-10456). https://doi.org/10.1109/icra48891.2023.10160867

Lower-limb exoskeletons and smart walkers are robotic devices to assist patients in regaining their autonomy after a stroke. The integration of these devices enables gait rehabilitation and functional compensation, promoting natural over-ground walki... Read More about Exploring multimodal gait rehabilitation and assistance through an adaptable robotic platform.

Handheld device design for robotic teleoperation based on multi-sensor fusion (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Xie, L., Huang, D., Lu, Z., Wang, N., & Yang, C. (2023). Handheld device design for robotic teleoperation based on multi-sensor fusion. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM54990.2023.10102054

Precise leader-follower control is critical for teleop- eration. This paper designs and implements a low-cost leader device for unilateral teleoperation scenario. Monocular vision based on fiducial markers and MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) are... Read More about Handheld device design for robotic teleoperation based on multi-sensor fusion.

A multimodal teleoperation interface for human-robot collaboration (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Si, W., Zhong, T., Wang, N., & Yang, C. (2023). A multimodal teleoperation interface for human-robot collaboration. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICM54990.2023.10102060

Human-robot collaboration provides an effective approach to combine human intelligence and the autonomy of robots, which can improve the safety and efficiency of the robot. However, developing an intuitive and immersive human-robot interface with mul... Read More about A multimodal teleoperation interface for human-robot collaboration.

3D Machine vision and deep learning for enabling automated and sustainable assistive physiotherapy (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, L., Boyd, S., Bhatta, D., & Smith, M. (in press). 3D Machine vision and deep learning for enabling automated and sustainable assistive physiotherapy.

The significant beneficial effects of physiotherapy as a treatment for a wide range of medical conditions, is well known. However, the challenge for already stressed healthcare systems to provide effective physiotherapy to an aging population, that h... Read More about 3D Machine vision and deep learning for enabling automated and sustainable assistive physiotherapy.

Improving health and safety promotion with a robotic tool: A case study for face mask detection (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Sierra, S. D., Insuasty, M., Garcia, D., Munera, M., & Cifuentes, C. (2023). Improving health and safety promotion with a robotic tool: A case study for face mask detection. In 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) (716-719). https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580180

Social robots have been shown to effectively promote healthy behaviour in humans. In the context of the pandemic, these robots have been used to encourage the use of face masks and other biosafety measures. However, human perception in these scenario... Read More about Improving health and safety promotion with a robotic tool: A case study for face mask detection.

Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Jeffcock, J., Hansen, M., & Ruiz Garate, V. (2023). Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection. In 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (466-474). https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576971

An estimated 20% of patients admitted to hospital wards are affected by delirium. Early detection is recommended to treat underlying causes of delirium, however workforce strain in general wards often causes it to remain undetected. This work propose... Read More about Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection.

Robotics technology for pain treatment and management: A review (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Higgins, A., Llewellyn, A., Dures, E., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2023). Robotics technology for pain treatment and management: A review. In F. Cavallo, O. Cabibihan, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino, H. He, X. Liu, …. S. S. Ge (Eds.), Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part I (534-545). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_47

The use of robots for pain management is a new and active research field. The aim of this scoping review is to identify current research, which groups or conditions are being targeted for treatment, which devices are being used, and how effective the... Read More about Robotics technology for pain treatment and management: A review.

Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Sobhani, M., Smith, A., Giuliani, M., & Pipe, T. (2023). Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system. In IEEE 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) (217-223). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssrr56537.2022.10018630

The usability of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system is investigated. The system is developed to provide a sense of remote presence for the operator. Different types of interfaces and camera setups have been proposed previousl... Read More about Usability study of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system.

Compressive behaviour of a square origami surface-based lattice structure fabricated by selective laser melting (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gao, J., Han, Q., Soe, S., Liu, Z., Feng, J., Zhang, Z., & Wang, L. (2023). Compressive behaviour of a square origami surface-based lattice structure fabricated by selective laser melting. In R. J. Howlett, S. G. Scholz, & R. Setchi (Eds.), SDM 2022: Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (57-66). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9205-6_6

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a metal additive manufacturing process that shows significant advantages in manufacturing lattice structures. In this paper, a novel surface-based square origami structure made of a nickel-based superalloy was fabrica... Read More about Compressive behaviour of a square origami surface-based lattice structure fabricated by selective laser melting.

Deformation-aware contact-rich manipulation skills learning and compliant control (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Si, W., Guo, C., Dong, J., Lu, Z., & Yang, C. (2023). Deformation-aware contact-rich manipulation skills learning and compliant control. In P. Borja, C. D. Santina, L. Peternel, & E. Torta (Eds.), Human-Friendly Robotics 2022 HFR: 15th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (90-104). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22731-8_7

In this paper, we study a vision-based reactive adaptation method for contact-rich manipulation tasks, based on the compliant control and learning from demonstration. For contact-rich tasks, the compliant control method is essential, especially when... Read More about Deformation-aware contact-rich manipulation skills learning and compliant control.

Comparing closed-loop control of drug infusion using MPC and PID (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Setati, T., Perold, W., Fourie, P., & Withey, D. (2022). Comparing closed-loop control of drug infusion using MPC and PID. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIODEVICES (126-133). https://doi.org/10.5220/0010783700003123

Continuous intravenous drug delivery can require careful dosage and the maintenance of consistent blood plasma concentration levels. Here, the closed-loop control of drug concentration in simulated patients’ bloodstreams was investigated. During the... Read More about Comparing closed-loop control of drug infusion using MPC and PID.

Mapping and enhancing sustainability literacy and competencies within an undergraduate engineering curriculum (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Lamere, M., Brodie, L., Nyamapfene, A., Fogg-Rogers, L., & Bakthavatchaalam, V. (2022). Mapping and enhancing sustainability literacy and competencies within an undergraduate engineering curriculum. In 9th Research in Engineering Education Symposium and 32nd Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference (REES AAEE 2021) (298-306). https://doi.org/10.52202/066488-0034

CONTEXT There is growing pressure today to tackle complex sustainability challenges of climate change, resource limitations, extreme poverty, to name a few. As part of this drive, today's engineers are expected to deliver technological solutions that... Read More about Mapping and enhancing sustainability literacy and competencies within an undergraduate engineering curriculum.

A critical route for documenting the seismic vulnerability on Mexican historical cities on GIS databases (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Ramírez Eudave, R., Ferreira, T. M., & Romeu, V. (2022). A critical route for documenting the seismic vulnerability on Mexican historical cities on GIS databases. In REHABEND 2022 Congress (1078-1087)

Caracterizar la vulnerabilidad de las construcciones históricas en el contexto de acciones sísmicas es una actividad primordial para su salvaguarda. A pesar de las numerosas experiencias para evaluar construcciones históricas, la aplicación de evalua... Read More about A critical route for documenting the seismic vulnerability on Mexican historical cities on GIS databases.

Multi-purpose tactile perception based on deep learning in a new tendon-driven optical tactile sensor (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Zhao, Z., & Lu, Z. (2022). Multi-purpose tactile perception based on deep learning in a new tendon-driven optical tactile sensor. In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2099-2104). https://doi.org/10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981477

In this paper, we create a new tendon-connected multi-functional optical tactile sensor, MechTac, for object perception in the field of view (TacTip) and location of touching points in the blind area of vision (TacSide). In a multi-point touch task,... Read More about Multi-purpose tactile perception based on deep learning in a new tendon-driven optical tactile sensor.

Multi-fingered tactile servoing for grasping adjustment under partial observation (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, H., Huang, B., Li, Q., Zheng, Y., Ling, Y., Lee, W., …Yang, C. (2022). Multi-fingered tactile servoing for grasping adjustment under partial observation. In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (7781-7788). https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981464

Grasping of objects using multi-fingered robotic hands often fails due to small uncertainties in the hand motion control and the object's pose estimation. To tackle this problem, we propose a grasping adjustment strategy based on tactile seroving. Ou... Read More about Multi-fingered tactile servoing for grasping adjustment under partial observation.

A modified LSTM model for Chinese sign language recognition using leap motion (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Wu, B., Lu, Z., & Yang, C. (2022). A modified LSTM model for Chinese sign language recognition using leap motion. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (1612-1617). https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945287

At present, there are about 70 million deaf people using sign language in the world, but for most normal people, it is difficult to understand the meaning of the sign language expression. Therefore, it is of great importance to explore the ways of re... Read More about A modified LSTM model for Chinese sign language recognition using leap motion.

Haptic teleoperation goes wireless: Evaluation and benchmarking of a high-performance low-power wireless control technology (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Bolarinwa, J., Smith, A., Aijaz, A., Stanoev, A., Sooriyabandara, M., & Giuliani, M. (2022). Haptic teleoperation goes wireless: Evaluation and benchmarking of a high-performance low-power wireless control technology. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) (300-307). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssrr56537.2022.10018764

Communication delays and packet losses are commonly investigated issues in the area of robotic teleoperation. This paper investigates application of a novel low-power wireless control technology (GALLOP) in a haptic teleoperation scenario developed t... Read More about Haptic teleoperation goes wireless: Evaluation and benchmarking of a high-performance low-power wireless control technology.

The AGoRA V2 unilateral lower-limb exoskeleton: Mechatronic integration and biomechanical assessment (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Otalora, S., Ballen-Moreno, F., Arciniegas-Mayag, L., Munera, M., & Cifuentes, C. A. (2022). The AGoRA V2 unilateral lower-limb exoskeleton: Mechatronic integration and biomechanical assessment. In 2022 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob). https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob52689.2022.9925487

People who suffer from stroke have a higher difficulty performing gait activity, affecting their quality of life. New technologies have been developed to assist and rehabilitate the affected limbs. This paper presents the AGoRA V2 unilateral lower-li... Read More about The AGoRA V2 unilateral lower-limb exoskeleton: Mechatronic integration and biomechanical assessment.

The PrHand: Functional assessment of an underactuated soft-robotic prosthetic hand (2022)
Conference Proceeding
De Arco, L., Ramos, O., Múnera, M., Moazen, M., Wurdemann, H., & Cifuentes, C. A. (2022). The PrHand: Functional assessment of an underactuated soft-robotic prosthetic hand. In 2022 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob). https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob52689.2022.9925316

Functional tests aim to compare the functionality of a prosthesis with a human hand. The main objective of this work is to present and evaluate an affordable prosthesis (PrHand) built with soft robotic technologies and novel joints based on compliant... Read More about The PrHand: Functional assessment of an underactuated soft-robotic prosthetic hand.