A new approach to self-calibrate a camera-equipped robot manipulator is proposed in this paper. Self-calibration here means that the camera-robot system is capable of determining its geometric parameters without any external measurements and/or ground truth calibration data. With the proposed approach, one is able to identify all the rotational parameters and, up to a scale factor, all the tran...

THE ever-expanding role of anesthesiologists may soon include genetic counseling. Like other medical specialties, since the completion of the Human Genome Project, anesthesiologists have placed much research and commercial interest in the development of pharmacogenomics. The promise of personalized medicine tailored to each patient’s genetics has encouraged the exploration of various genes rela...

The heterogeneity of products in grocery stores leads to consumer confusion. Stores should support their consumers during shopping, but today the only connection between consumer and retailer is at the check-out. The black-box “sales floor” can be disclosed by using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) on product level. To derive possible applications this paper first compares the architecture...

The trend to minimize electronic devices in the last decades accounts for Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) as well as for sensor technologies and imaging devices, resulting in a strong revolution in the surveying and mapping industries. However, only within the last few years the LIDAR sensor technology has achieved sufficiently reduction in terms of size and weight to be considered for UAV pl...

This paper deals with the development of kinematic algorithms for the control of sensor-equipped robots. The kinematics is solved in the sensor coordinate system, which reduces the computation efforts, and allows the elimination of the first joint encoder. Simplification of the algorithms can be obtained when approximations are used to solve the inverse kinematics. Three control algorithms base...

When Xenos peckii twisted-wing parasite males emerge as adults from within the body of the hapless wasp that served as their incubator, the race is on. With an adult lifetime spanning just a few hours, the male insects have to locate a female and mate before their time is up. And the challenge of locating a female mate – which is barely more than a fleshy bag of eggs with no eyes or limbs – is ...

Malware authors constantly develop new techniques in order to evade analysis systems. Previous works addressed attempts to evade analysis by means of anti-sandboxing and anti-virtualization techniques, for example proposing to run samples on bare-metal. However, state-ofthe-art bare-metal tools fail to provide richness and completeness in the results of the analysis. In this context, Dynamic Bi...

In-vivo monitoring of human knee implants after total arthroplasty increases the knowledge about articular motion and loading conditions. The proposed knee prosthesis equipped with force sensors executes force measurements in polyethylene human knee prosthesis by two sensorized metal bars positioned under the femoral condyles and fully contained in the polyethylene insert. In this paper, a new ...

Protein nanopores have been used as stochastic sensors for the detection of analytes that range from small molecules to proteins. In this approach, individual analyte molecules modulate the ionic current flowing through a single nanopore. Here, a new type of stochastic sensor based on an αHL pore modified with an aptamer is described. The aptamer is bound to the pore by hybridization to an olig...