Requirements elicitation for robotic and computer-assisted minimally invasive surgery (2019)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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.

Manual takeover and handover of a simulated fully autonomous vehicle within urban and extra urban settings (2017)
Book Chapter

Relatively little is known about human behavior and performance when retaking control of highly autonomous vehicles (AVs) at different speeds and under varied driving conditions. Past research has tended to focus on long periods of high-speed extra-u... Read More about Manual takeover and handover of a simulated fully autonomous vehicle within urban and extra urban settings.

Decision-making model for adaptive impedance control of teleoperation systems (2017)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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.

Port-based modeling of human-robot collaboration towards safety-enhancing energy shaping control (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

While collision detection and contact-related injury reduction in physical human-robot interaction has been studied intensively, safety issues in physical human robot collaboration (pHRC) with continuous coupling of human and robot(s) has received li... Read More about Port-based modeling of human-robot collaboration towards safety-enhancing energy shaping control.

A new interaction force decomposition maximizing compensating forces under physical work constraints (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In manipulation tasks interaction forces are often decomposed to be able to control robustness-reflective and accelerating forces separately. While this decomposition is typically performed for the synthesis of interaction forces to be applied for ex... Read More about A new interaction force decomposition maximizing compensating forces under physical work constraints.

Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces (2016)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

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.

Anthropomorphic surgical system for soft tissue robot-assisted surgery (2016)
Thesis

Over the past century, abdominal surgery has seen a rapid transition from open procedures to less invasive methods such as laparoscopy and robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (R-A MIS). These procedures have significantly decreased blood loss,... Read More about Anthropomorphic surgical system for soft tissue robot-assisted surgery.

μAngelo: A Novel System for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution