Category: frontiersin
Are You Still With Me? Continuous Engagement Assessment From a Robot's Point of View
Continuously measuring the engagement of users with a robot in a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) setting paves the way toward in-situ reinforcement learning, improve metrics of interaction quality, and can guide […]
Improving Health Monitoring With Adaptive Data Movement in Fog Computing
Pervasive sensing is increasing our ability to monitor the status of patients not only when they are hospitalized but also during home recovery. As a result, lots of data are […]
Control Architecture for Human-Like Motion With Applications to Articulated Soft Robots
Human beings can achieve a high level of motor performance that is still unmatched in robotic systems. These capabilities can be ascribed to two main enabling factors: (i) the physical […]
A Novel User Control for Lower Extremity Rehabilitation Exoskeletons
Lower extremity exoskeletons offer the potential to restore ambulation to individuals with paraplegia due to spinal cord injury. However, they often rely on preprogrammed gait, initiated by switches, sensors, and/or […]
Improving CT Image Tumor Segmentation Through Deep Supervision and Attentional Gates
Computer Tomography (CT) is an imaging procedure that combines many X-ray measurements taken from different angles. The segmentation of areas in the CT images provides a valuable aid to physicians […]
Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots
Applications in remote inspection and medicine have motivated the recent development of innovative thin, flexible-backboned robots. However, such robots often experience difficulties in maintaining their intended posture under gravitational and […]
Toward Accurate Visual Reasoning With Dual-Path Neural Module Networks
Visual reasoning is a critical stage in visual question answering (Antol et al., 2015), but most of the state-of-the-art methods categorized the VQA tasks as a classification problem without taking […]
Compact Gearboxes for Modern Robotics: A Review
On the eve of Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) becoming customary in our lives, the performance of HRI robotic devices remains strongly conditioned by their gearboxes. In most industrial robots, two relatively unconventional […]
Human Movement Representation on Multivariate Time Series for Recognition of Professional Gestures and Forecasting Their Trajectories
Human-centered artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed in professional workplaces in Industry 4.0 to address various challenges related to the collaboration between the operators and the machines, the augmentation of their […]