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Highway Lane change under uncertainty with Deep Reinforcement Learning based motion planner
DownloadSpring 2020
Motion Planning is a fundamental component of a mobile robot to reach its goal safely avoiding collision. For a self-driving car on a highway, the presence of non-communicating vehicles, specially those whose intent is unknown, creates a lot of uncertainty for the motion planner in generating a...
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Improving a User's Haptic Perceptual Sensitivity by Optimizing Effective Manipulability of a Redundant User Interface
Download2022-11-03
Teng Li, Ali Torabi, Hongjun Xing, Mahdi Tavakoli
ABSTRACT: Human perceptual sensitivity of various types of forces, e.g., stiffness and friction, is important for surgeons during robotic surgeries such as needle insertion and palpation. However, force feedback from robot end-effector is usually a combination of desired and undesired force...
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Spring 2019
Disabling events such as stroke affect millions of people worldwide, causing a need for efficient and functional rehabilitation therapies in order for patients to regain motor function for reintegration back into their normal lives. Rehabilitation regimes often involve performing exercises that...
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Fall 2011
This thesis addresses the problem of automatic real-time 3D reconstruction of general scenes from monocular video. Whereas many impressively accurate reconstruction techniques exist in the multi-view stereo literature, most are slow offline batch methods designed to work in highly calibrated...
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2014-02-01
AATCC Review asked a cross section of industry experts for their predictions on the technologies, issues, and dynamics that will shape the textile and related industries over the next five to ten years.
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Spring 2024
Recent strides in lower-limb exoskeleton development have significantly enhanced the potential for more effective rehabilitation and assistance for individuals with mobility impairments. Despite these advancements, the widespread adoption of exoskeletons demands improvements in both hardware and...
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2016-01-01
The lessons in this “InspirEd EZ-Robotics” unit provide a cross-curricular guide to using EZ-Robots and their associated software. It’s important to note that THE TEACHER NEEDS NO SPECIAL EXPERTISE in robotics or computers to implement the lessons! Other than computers, all instructions and...
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2016-01-01
The lessons in this “InspirEd EZ-Robotics” unit provide a cross-curricular guide to using EZ-Robots and their associated software. It’s important to note that THE TEACHER NEEDS NO SPECIAL EXPERTISE in robotics or computers to implement the lessons! Other than computers, all instructions and...