Brain, body and machine: Proceedings of an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines

"The reader will find here papers on human-robot interaction as well as humansafety algorithms; haptic interfaces; innovative instruments and algorithms for the sensing of motion and the identification of brain neoplasms; even a paper on a saxophone-playing robot." Recent research on Brain, Body and Machine Results of an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines Written by leading expertsin the field INDICE: Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-robot Interaction.- 3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning.- Rigid registration of 3D ultrasound and MRI: comparing two approaches on nine tumor cases.- A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration.- Designing a Metric for the Difference Between Gaussian Densities.- Physical Asymmetries and Brightness Perceptionm.- A learning-based patient repositioning method from limited-angle projections.- Image and Video RegionSaliency Based On Space and Motion.- Generalized PCA via the backward stepwise approach in image analysis.- Performance of MRF-based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes.- Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation.- A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies.- Robust Design of 2nd order Terminal ILC Using µ-analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach.- Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot.- Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-driven Haptic Interface.- Hybrid StabilizingControl for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum.- Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality.- Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction.- Sliding-mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-steering Mobile Robot.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-16258-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 327
• Fecha Publicación: 15/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés