After the introduction of MRI, new modalities facilitated the procedure of surgical planning to achieve the microsurgical goal and improve prognosis and quality of life in patients. Despite the variable applications of preoperative and intraoperative mapping and monitoring systems, several limitations and concerns are reported for every modality as well. In this issue of the IrJNS, we are delig...

background: to reduce uncertainties of patient positioning, the computerized tomography (ct) images acquired at the treatment planning time can be compared with those images obtained during radiation dose delivery. this can be followed during dose delivery procedure as image guided radiotherapy (igrt) to verify the prescribed radiation dose delivery to the target as well as to monitor radiation...

Kinodynamic motion planning is the problem of finding a collision-free path for a robot under constraints e.g., velocities and accelerations. State of the art techniques rely on sampling-based planning which samples and connects configurations until a valid path is found. Many sampling-based planners have been developed for non-holonomic problems e.g., Kinodynamic Rapidly-exploring Random Trees...

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are important in areas such as scientific research and resource collection. However, AUVs suffer from data portability energy problems due to their physical size limitation. In this work, an acoustic guidance method for docking is proposed solve the problem of persistent operation. A funnel station autonomous remotely operated vehicle (ARV) used platform de...

The successful integration of autonomous robots in real-world environments strongly depends on their ability to reason from context and take socially acceptable actions. Current navigation systems mainly rely geometric information hard-coded rules induce safe compliant behaviors. Yet, unstructured urban scenarios these approaches can become costly suboptimal. In this paper, we introduce a motio...