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- 13Mahdi Tavakoli
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- 3Abed Soleymani
- 3Hadis Karimipour, Venkata Dinavahi
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Machine-learned Adaptive Switching in Voluntary Lower-limb Exoskeleton Control: Preliminary Results
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Lower-limb exoskeletons utilize fixed control strategies and are not adaptable to user’s intention. To this end, the goal of this study was to investigate the potential of using temporal-difference learning and general value functions for predicting the next possible walking mode that will be...
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Improving a User's Haptic Perceptual Sensitivity by Optimizing Effective Manipulability of a Redundant User Interface
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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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Integrating Impedance Control and Nonlinear Disturbance Observer for Robot-Assisted Arthroscope Control in Elbow Arthroscopic Surgery
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Teng Li, Armin Badre, Hamid D. Taghirad, Mahdi Tavakoli
ABSTRACT: Robot-assisted arthroscopic surgery is transforming the tradition in orthopaedic surgery. Compliance and stability are essential features that a surgical robot must have for safe physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). Surgical tools attached at the robot end-effector and human-robot...
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EMG-based Hybrid Impedance-Force Control for Human-Robot Collaboration on Ultrasound Imaging
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Teng Li, Hongjun Xing, Hamid D. Taghirad, Mahdi Tavakoli
ABSTRACT: Ultrasound (US) imaging is a common but physically demanding task in the medical field, and sonographers may need to put in considerable physical effort for producing high-quality US images. During physical human-robot interaction on US imaging, robot compliance is a critical feature...
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2022-11-04
Amir Zakerimanesh, Tony Z. Qiu, Mahdi Tavakoli
Platooning which is defined as controlling a group of autonomous vehicles (multiple followers and one leader) to have a desired distance between them while following a desired trajectory has caught on recently in the control engineering discipline. Platooning brings along promising advantages,...
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2021-01-01
Abed Soleymani, Ali Akbar Sadat Asl, Mojtaba Yeganejou, Scott Dick, Mahdi Tavakoli, Xingyu Li
Quality and safety are critical elements in the performance of surgeries. Therefore, surgical trainees need to obtain the required degrees of expertise before operating on patients. Conventionally, a trainee’s performance is evaluated by qualitative methods that are time-consuming and prone...
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2021-11-01
Hussain, Akhtar, Musilek, Petr
Instead of using a dedicated backup power source to fulfill the energy needs of buildings during contingencies, a reward mechanism for providing reliability-as-a-service (RaaS) via electric vehicles (EVs) is proposed in this study. The proposed positive reward mechanism comprises an upfront...
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A Low-cost Intrinsically Safe Mechanism for Physical Distancing Between Clinicians and Patients
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Abed Soleymani, Ali Torabi, Mahdi Tavakoli
Abed Soleymani, Ali Torabi, Mahdi Tavakoli
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