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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Multimodal Sensing"”.
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Applying multimodal sensing to human location estimation
"Mobile devices like smartphones and smartwatches are beginning to ""stick"" to the human body. Given that these devices are equipped with a variety of sensors, they are becoming a natural platform to understand various aspects of human behavior. This dissertation will focus on just one dimension …
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Automatic, Careful Online Packing of Groceries Using a Soft Robotic Manipulator and Multimodal Sensing
… the use of soft robotic manipulators with multimodal sensing for estimating the physical properties of unknown objects to enable sorting and packing. Although bin packing has been a key benchmark task for robotic manipulation, the community has mainly focused on the placement of rigid …
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Multimodal Robot Systems and Learning
… the engineering design and system analysis of a multimodal, robotic environment. We first give background on why this type of system is unique, describing the different approach we take to sensing, dynamics, and control. We then delve into the robot itself, and review our development of a python …
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Advanced modelling and analysis for quality assessment and enhancement of underwater multimodal imageries.
Underwater sensing plays a crucial role in environmental protection and sustainable energy transitions, supporting marine ecosystem monitoring, resource management, and infrastructure development. However, visual perception in underwater environments is significantly restricted by light absorption …
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Design of Robots for Unstructured Environments - A Customisable Agile Quadruped, a Sensorised High-Force Gripper, and an Intelligent Drilling End-Effector
… in unstructured contexts. DAGANA features a multimodal sensing system that mitigates sensor occlusion during grasping, and its modular design allows extension of its dexterity and sensing capabilities. The last device is Smart Drill, a sensorised robotic power-drilling end-effector that …
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A Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Interface with Augmented Sensing, Interaction, and Visualization Techniques
With the advanced development of multimodal sensing and rendering technologies, Virtual Reality (VR) has attracted enormous interest in unsupervised physical rehabilitation owing to its decisive advantages in turning traditional physical touchpoints into digital simulated empathy machinery. The …
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Investigations towards the development of a novel multimodal fibre optic sensor for oil and gas applications.
… earth, causing serious safety concerns. Hence, sensing of critical multiple parameters like high pressure, high temperature (HPHT), chemicals, etc., are required at longer distances. Traditional electrical sensors operate less effectively under these extreme environmental conditions and are …
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PEDOT:PSS Fibre Building Blocks for Adaptive and Sustainable Bioelectronic Structures
… functional circuit construction and multi-modal sensing capabilities of these fibres, then developed a fibre structure framework to biomorphically augment living surfaces, which supports in-situ repair and upgrades by wipe-and-rewrite for adapting to continuous changes in the biological surfaces …
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Design and applications of inkjet-printed flexible sensate surfaces
… Often, we find ourselves confined by existing sensing infrastructures that are not designed to adapt the complexity of the physical world. This dissertation presents a research platform to investigate design principles and applications for flexible sensate surfaces. This platform utilizes …
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From head to toe : body movement for human-computer interaction
… the whole body up close, by splitting the sensing of different body parts across multiple sensors. Our setup allows tracking gaze, head, mid-air gestures, multi-touch gestures, and foot movements. We investigate specific applications for multimodal combinations in the domain of 3DUI, …
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Patronus: multi-modal sensing, analytics, and localization assistance for heterogeneous working environments
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms