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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"sensing modalities"”.
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Enhancing Muscle Sensing Modalities for Advanced Bionics
Muscle sensing technologies have significantly advanced our understanding of biomechanics and enhanced the efficacy of bionic devices. These technologies enable volitional control of prostheses and assistive devices by mapping the electrical and mechanical activities of muscles as control inputs. …
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New Sensing Modalities for Bacterial and Environmental Phenomena
… communication molecules: the universal quorum sensing molecule autoinducer-2 (AI-2), the species-specific Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal (PQS), and the stationary phase indicator molecule indole. SERS substrates were formed by galvanic displacement, a substrate fabrication method that can be …
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The Role of Sensing Modalities in Shaping Collective Motion and Group Behavior
… We investigate how this kind of `offset' sensing influences group dynamics. For instance, when the sensing field is directed opposite to the movement direction, unique and unexpected group behaviors emerge. Understanding these mechanisms can provide deep insights into the behavior of …
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Tissue Diagnosis Probe Based on Stiffness Measurement Using Vision and Force Sensing Modalities
… interactions. The probe using force and vision sensing modalities was created to be used for tissue diagnosis in medical applications, especially for robot-assisted minimallyinvasive surgery (MIS) to provide the necessary sensing modalities to allow for haptic feedback. By employing the …
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SCALE : exploring human-object interaction through force vector measurement
… difficult to be accessed or inferred from other sensing modalities. To explore the design space of force-based interaction, I have developed the SCALE toolkit, which is composed of modularized 3d-axis force sensors and application APIs. In collaboration with big industry companies, this system …
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Automatic, Careful Online Packing of Groceries Using a Soft Robotic Manipulator and Multimodal Sensing
… 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 rectilinear …
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Low dimensionality spectral sensing for low cost material discrimination and identification
… the awareness and appeal of spectroscopic sensing modalities by exploring specialized, rather than general purpose instruments. Rather than sensing the entire spectrum, these devices work by observing just the particular spectral features needed to perform identification or discrimination. …
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Flexible-stretchable woven electronic textile system : a tailored multi-modal bodysuit for spatiotemporal physiological and physical activity monitoring
… focus on 'niche' applications and lack of sensing modalities, as well as large-scale coverage. We introduce a new platform of flexible-stretchable distributed sensor networks that can be embedded into a digitally-knit textile. It can be customized for various forms and functions using …
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WideScatter:Toward Wide Area Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks
The vision of ubiquitous battery-free sensing has run into the practical limitations of wireless communication networks. To address this, we design the first wide-area and scalable backscatter network with multiple receivers(RX) and transmitters(TX) base units to communicate with battery-free …
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A Framework for Object Recognition in Construction Using Building Information Modeling and High Frame Rate 3D Imaging
… of feature descriptors associated with different sensing modalities and different algorithms can all be aggregated into one Property Set and assigned to either object types or object instances.
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Soft, wireless electronics for the thermal characterization of skin and soft tissue
… allow for the integration of traditionally rigid sensing electronics and wiring into form factors that are soft, flexible and stretchable. These sensors offer qualitative improvements in patient comfort and are comparable, if not superior to clinical gold standard technologies. The strong, …
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Managing resources on a multi-modal sensing device for energy-aware state estimation
Multi-modal sensing devices are becoming more and more prevalent in everyday life. Whether it be in the form of a smartphone, mobile computing device, remote sensor node, or a sensor-packed robot, they are used almost everywhere. Often these devices run on battery power or on energy harvested from …
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Towards realizing the internet-of-things vision : in-body, homes, and farms
… constraints on size, power, communication, and sensing modalities: inside the human body, smart homes, and agricultural farms. We deploy these systems for long-term in real world environments and present our insights from these deployments. Finally, we demonstrate that the techniques developed …
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Structured model learning for adaptive robot generalists
… embodiments, and operate robustly under varying sensing conditions. However, robotic manipulation in such unstructured environments requires integrating diverse sensory modalities, long-horizon reasoning, and learning from heterogeneous data sources. Traditional monolithic learning approaches …
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Resource management in sensing services with audio applications
… resource-awareness to support high data-rate sensing modalities such as audio/video. This work therefore investigates the resource management problem in sensing services, with application in audio sensing. First, a modular, data-centric architecture is proposed as the framework within which …
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Imaging Nanoscale Spin Textures with Scanning Diamond Quantum Microscopy
… imaging techniques. In this respect, quantum sensing via nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond promises to address contemporary and prospective imaging needs. Employed on a scanning probe platform, the scanning diamond quantum microscope is capable of nanoscale imaging with an unprecedented …
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Coverage problems in mobile sensing
… of four actions across the network: measurement (sensing), communication, motion and computation. The term coverage is applied to the central question of how well a sensor-network senses some phenomenon to make inferences. More formally, a coverage problem involves finding an arrangement of …
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Designing Visual Intelligence from Photons to Action
… the detection of objects around corners. This sensing capability allows us to develop robots that effectively anticipate and avoid hidden obstacles, reducing navigation time by 50% and overall trajectory length by 33%. Together, these works demonstrate how the synthesis of biologically-inspired …
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Smart object, not smart environment : cooperative augmentation of smart objects using projector-camera systems
Smart objects research explores embedding sensing and computing into everyday objects - augmenting objects to be a source of information on their identity, state, and context in the physical world. A major challenge for the design of smart objects is to preserve their original appearance, purpose …
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Bioimaging with photonic crystal enhanced microscopy
… and thus used for label-free detection and biosensing. One dimensional photonic crystal surfaces are designed and utilized as a biosensor, and further integrated with an ordinary bright-field microscope. To demonstrate the validity of the photonic crystal biosensor, a three-dimensional modeling …
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