Academic Articles & Research Papers

Development and Hybrid Control of an Electrically Actuated Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Motion Assistance

This paper describes a system design and hybrid control algorithm of an electrically actuated lower limb exoskeleton (LLE). The system design mainly includes three parts: mechanical structure design, actuation system design and sensor syste...

Large Language Models and 3D Vision for Intelligent Robotic Perception and Autonomy

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and robotics, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with 3D vision is emerging as a transformative approach to enhancing robotic sensing technologies. This convergence enables ...

Application of orthopedic robotics in cancer surgery: integrating precision treatment and postoperative exercise rehabilitation.

Cognitive Digital Twins in Surgery: Insights from an International Multidisciplinary Workshop.

Multi-objective deep deterministic policy gradient for cobot trajectory planning in automotive spot welding.

An Input-Perceptual Reconstruction Adversarial Network for Paired Image-to-Image Conversion

Image-to-image conversion based on deep learning techniques is a topic of interest in the fields of robotics and computer vision. A series of typical tasks, such as applying semantic labels to building photos, edges to photos, and raining t...

Optimal Frontier-Based Autonomous Exploration in Unconstructed Environment Using RGB-D Sensor

Aerial robots are widely used in search and rescue applications because of their small size and high maneuvering. However, designing an autonomous exploration algorithm is still a challenging and open task, because of the limited payload an...

Fundamentals of Computer Vision

Computer vision has widespread and growing application including robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and diagnosis, surveillance, video analysis, and even tracking for sports analysis. This book equips the reader with crucial mat...

An Introduction to 3D Computer Vision Techniques and Algorithms

present basic low-level image processing operations for image matching, including a separate chapter on image matching algorithms; \n explain scale-space vision, as well as space reconstruction and multiview integration; \n demonstrate a va...

Computer Vision Meets Educational Robotics

Educational robotics has gained a lot of attention in the past few years in K-12 education. Prior studies have shown enough shreds of evidence and highlight the benefits of educational robotics as being effective in providing impactful lear...

A survey of public datasets for computer vision tasks in precision agriculture

Computer vision technologies have attracted significant interest in precision agriculture in recent years. At the core of robotics and artificial intelligence, computer vision enables various tasks from planting to harvesting in the crop pr...

Learning by Watching: A Review of Video-Based Learning Approaches for Robot Manipulation

Robot learning of manipulation skills is hindered by the scarcity of diverse, unbiased datasets. While curated datasets can help, challenges remain regarding generalizability and real-world transfer. Meanwhile, large-scale ‘in-the-wi...

Lightweight Two-Layer Control Architecture for Human-Following Robot

(1) Background: Human detection and tracking are critical tasks for assistive autonomous robots, particularly in ensuring safe and efficient human–robot interaction in indoor environments. The increasing need for personal assistance among t...

Problems In Indoor Mapping and Modelling

Research in support of indoor mapping and modelling (IMM) has been active for over thirty years. This research has come in the form of As-Built surveys, Data structuring, Visualisation techniques, Navigation models and so forth. Much of thi...

A Comprehensive Joint Learning System to Detect Skin Cancer

Skin, the body’s biggest organ and a barrier against heat, light, damage, and infection can be affected by many diseases. However, a correct diagnosis can lead to proper treatment. Skin diseases must be identified early to reduce ski...

A Video Frame Prediction Method Based on Latent-Space Autoregressive Modeling

Video prediction is a fundamental task in computer vision with broad applications in intelligent robotics, autonomous driving, and related fields. However, existing methods often struggle to simultaneously model long-term temporal dependenc...

Quaternions in Computer Vision and Robotics

Computer vision and robotics suffer from not having good tools for manipulating three-dimensional objects. Vectors, coordinate geometry, and trigonometry all have deficiencies. Quaternions can be used to solve many of these problems. Many p...

A Perspective on Range Finding Techniques for Computer Vision

In recent times a great deal of interest has been shown, amongst the computer vision and robotics research community, in the acquisition of range data for supporting scene analysis leading to remote (noncontact) determination of configurati...

Enabling scalable inspection of offshore mooring systems using cost-effective autonomous underwater drones

As aquaculture expands to meet global food demand, it remains dependent on manual, costly, infrequent, and high-risk operations due to reliance on high-end Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Scalable and autonomous systems are needed to ena...

A Taxonomy of Deep Convolutional Neural Nets for Computer Vision

Traditional architectures for solving computer vision problems and the degree of success they enjoyed have been heavily reliant on hand-crafted features. However, of late, deep learning techniques have offered a compelling alternative -- th...