To assist daily life upper-limb motions of elderly or physically weak persons, many kinds of upper-limb power-assist robots have been developed. We have developed a 7DOF power-assist exoskeleton robot in which EMG-based impedance control is applied and the impedance parameters are adjusted in real time according to the upper-limb posture and EMG activity levels. The impedance parameters of huma...

Gregory S. Chirikjian Johns Hopkins University 2.1 Rotations in Three Dimensions Rules for Composing Rotations • Euler Angles • The Matrix Exponential 2.2 Full Rigid-Body Motion Composition of Motions • Screw Motions 2.3 Homogeneous Transforms and the Denavit-Hartenberg Parameters Homogeneous Transformation Matrices • The Denavit-Hartenberg Parameters in Robotics 2.4 Infinitesimal Motions and A...

Motion can be estimated by detecting the edges of a moving object using Active Contours, and registering them together to obtain the motion model parameters. This idea can be applied to patient motion during the acquisition of an MRI to eliminate motion artifacts in the image. The data obtained during the MRI acquistion, the k-space, can be divided into several subbands such that each subband i...

Deriving accurate 3-D motion information of a scene is an essential and important task in computer vision, and is also one of the most difficult problems. In this paper, using photogrammetry method and computer vision technique the author investigates the determination of 3-D motion parameters from binocular stereo image sequences method and steps. Discussing the in-situ calibration for binocul...

The removal of unwanted, parasitic vibrations in a video sequence induced by camera motion is an essential part of video acquisition in industrial, military and consumer applications. In this paper, we present a new image processing method to remove such vibrations and reconstruct a video sequence void of sudden camera movements. Our approach to separating unwanted vibrations from intentional c...

In this paper we present a new approach to robust 3D rigid body motion estimation and scene structure recovery using an epipolar corridor. In comparison to traditional two stage approaches we do not rely on independent establishment of feature point correspondences and subsequent computation of 3D motion parameters, but iteratively feed the motion parameters back to the point correspondence est...

Background Several motion parameters for quantification of LV motion abnormalities and asynchrony have been described in literature, but were investigated with different acquisition protocols and for different cohorts, thus impeding comparability. For derivation of normal values in healthy volunteers, calculation of all parameters from a single acquisition protocol is desirable. In this study, ...

This paper addresses the problem of motion estimation and selective reconstruction of objects undergoing rotational motion composed with translational motion. The goal is to derive the motion parameters belonging to the multiple moving objects, i.e. the angular velocities and the translational velocities and identify their locations at each time instance by selective reconstruction. These param...

the problem of steady magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting nanofluid due to an exponentially permeable stretching sheet with heat source/sink in presence of thermal radiation is numerically investigated. the effect of transverse brownian motion and thermophoresis on heat transfer and nano particle volume fraction considered. the governing partial differential eq...