Abstract Thin, flexible robots able to bend and elongate can help surgeons reach deeper and more accurately into the human body than ever before, through increasingly smaller incisions. This talk will cover recent breakthroughs in[…]
Abstract: This talk and demonstration will give an overview of the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) software ecosystem for robot systems development. ROS is a modular open-source software system whose core is a publish-subscribe middleware[…]
Abstract Autonomy in robotic surgeries has advantages of improved surgical efficiency, decreased surgeon fatigue, and potentially leads to improved surgical outcomes. This talk presents our latest efforts towards surgical robotic autonomy on 1) Raven II[…]
Abstract This talk will show that attitude Kalman filters can be simple in design while also being robust and accurate despite the highly nonlinear nature of attitude (i. e., orientation) estimation. Three different filters are[…]
Abstract The ability to manufacture micro-scale sensors and actuators has inspired the robotics community for over 30 years. There have been huge success stories; MEMS inertial sensors have enabled an entire market of low-cost, small[…]
Abstract SimpleITK is a simplified, open source, multi-language interface to the National Library of Medicine’s Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK), a C++ open source image analysis toolkit which is widely used in academia and[…]
Abstract Robots hold promise in assisting people in a variety of domains including healthcare services, household chores, collaborative manufacturing, and educational learning. In supporting these activities, robots need to engage with humans in cooperative interactions[…]
Abstract This is the Fall 2017 Kick-Off Seminar, presenting an overview of LCSR, useful information, and an introduction to the faculty and labs.
Abstract The first dynamic legged robots (developed by Raibert) were controlled using a “three-part” hopping strategy, synthesized by developing controllers in isolation (e.g. vertical hopping controller ignores fore-aft motion). Dynamical systems theory can offer a[…]
