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Design, Modelling and Characterisation of a Miniature Fibre-Reinforced Soft Bending Actuator for Endoluminal Interventions

Xiangyi Tan, Aoife McDonald-Bowyer, Danail Stoyanov, Agostino Stilli ยท 2026

Miniaturised soft pneumatic actuators are crucial for robotic intervention within highly constrained anatomical pathways. This work presents the design and validation of a fibre-reinforced soft actuatโ€ฆ

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CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Hard-Soft Compliance

Leo Lin, Shivansh Patel, Jay Moon, Svetlana Lazebnik, Unnat Jain ยท 2026

We introduce CRAFT hand, a tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with hybrid hard-soft compliance for contact-rich manipulation. The design is based on a simple idea: contact is not uniform across the haโ€ฆ

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Deep learning water-unsuppressed MRSI at ultra-high field for simultaneous quantitative metabolic, susceptibility and myelin water imaging

Paul J. Weiser, Jiye Kim, Jongho Lee, Amirmohammad Shamaei, Gulnur Ungan, Malte Hoffmann, Antoine Klauser, Berkin Bilgic, Ovidiu C. Andronesi ยท 2025

Purpose: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) maps endogenous brain metabolism while suppressing the overwhelming water signal. Water-unsuppressed MRSI (wu-MRSI) allows simultaneous imagingโ€ฆ

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Vibration of Soft, Twisted Beams for Under-Actuated Quadrupedal Locomotion

Yuhao Jiang, Fuchen Chen, Jamie Paik, Daniel M. Aukes ยท 2025

Under-actuated compliant robotic systems offer a promising approach to mitigating actuation and control challenges by harnessing pre-designed, embodied dynamic behaviors. This paper presents Flix-Walkโ€ฆ

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A hybrid framework integrating classical computers and quantum annealers for optimisation of truss structures

Van-Dung Nguyen, Erin Kuci, Michel Rasquin, Ludovic Noels ยท 2025

This work proposes a hybrid framework combining classical computers with quantum annealers for structural optimisation. At each optimisation iteration of an iterative process, two minimisation problemโ€ฆ

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ViewActive: Active viewpoint optimization from a single image

Jiayi Wu, Xiaomin Lin, Botao He, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos ยท 2024

When observing objects, humans benefit from their spatial visualization and mental rotation ability to envision potential optimal viewpoints based on the current observation. This capability is cruciaโ€ฆ

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Low-rank based motion correction followed by automatic frame selection in DT-CMR

Fanwen Wang, Pedro F.Ferreira, Camila Munoz, Ke Wen, Yaqing Luo, Jiahao Huang, Yinzhe Wu, Dudley J.Pennell, Andrew D. Scott, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Guang Yang ยท 2024

Motivation: Post-processing of in-vivo diffusion tensor CMR (DT-CMR) is challenging due to the low SNR and variation in contrast between frames which makes image registration difficult, and the need tโ€ฆ

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SCINeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from a Snapshot Compressive Image

Yunhao Li, Xiaodong Wang, Ping Wang, Xin Yuan, Peidong Liu ยท 2024

In this paper, we explore the potential of Snapshot Compressive Imaging (SCI) technique for recovering the underlying 3D scene representation from a single temporal compressed image. SCI is a cost-effโ€ฆ

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Tracing and segmentation of molecular patterns in 3-dimensional cryo-et/em density maps through algorithmic image processing and deep learning-based techniques

Salim Sazzed ยท 2024

Understanding the structures of biological macromolecules is highly important as they are closely associated with cellular functionalities. Comprehending the precise organization actin filaments is crโ€ฆ

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Gait Design of a Novel Arboreal Concertina Locomotion for Snake-like Robots

Shuoqi Chen, Aaron Roth ยท 2023

In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for a snake robot to move straight up a cylindrical surface. Prior works on pole-climbing for a snake robot mainly utilized a rolling helix gait, and althougโ€ฆ

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Improving Drone Imagery For Computer Vision/Machine Learning in Wilderness Search and Rescue

Robin Murphy, Thomas Manzini ยท 2023

This paper describes gaps in acquisition of drone imagery that impair the use with computer vision/machine learning (CV/ML) models and makes five recommendations to maximize image suitability for CV/Mโ€ฆ

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Sub-structure characteristic mode analysis of microstrip antennas using a global multi-trace formulation

Ran Zhao, Yuyu Lu, Guang Shang Cheng, Wei Zhu, Jun Hu, Hakan Bagci ยท 2022

A characteristic mode (CM) method that relies on a global multi-trace formulation (MTF) of surface integral equations is proposed to compute the modes and the resonance frequencies of microstrip patchโ€ฆ

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Anthropomorphic Twisted String-Actuated Soft Robotic Gripper with Tendon-Based Stiffening

David Bombara, Revanth Konda, Steven Swanbeck, Jun Zhang ยท 2022

Realizing high-performance soft robotic grippers is challenging because of the inherent limitations of the soft actuators and artificial muscles that drive them, including low force output, small actuโ€ฆ

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PS$^2$F: Polarized Spiral Point Spread Function for Single-Shot 3D Sensing

Bhargav Ghanekar, Vishwanath Saragadam, Dushyant Mehra, Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan ยท 2022

We propose a compact snapshot monocular depth estimation technique that relies on an engineered point spread function (PSF). Traditional approaches used in microscopic super-resolution imaging such asโ€ฆ

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A global sharing mechanism of resources: modeling a crucial step in the fight against pandemics

G.K. den Nijs, J. Edivaldo, B.D.L. Chatel, J.F. Uleman, M. Olde Rikkert, H. Wertheim, R. Quax ยท 2022

To face pandemics like the one caused by COVID-19, resources such as personal protection equipment (PPE) are needed to reduce the infection rate and protect those in close contact with patients (Heymaโ€ฆ

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Single-Source SIE for Two-Dimensional Arbitrarily Connected Penetrable and PEC Objects with Nonconformal Meshes

Zekun Zhu, Aipeng Sun, Xiaochao Zhou, Shunchuan Yang, Zhizhang (David) Chen ยท 2021

We proposed a simple and efficient modular single-source surface integral equation (SS-SIE) formulation for electromagnetic analysis of arbitrarily connected penetrable and perfectly electrical conducโ€ฆ

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Comparing the Notions of Opacity for Discrete-Event Systems

Jiri Balun, Tomas Masopust ยท 2021

Opacity is an information flow property characterizing whether a system reveals its secret to a passive observer. Several notions of opacity have been introduced in the literature. We study the notionโ€ฆ

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Deep learning-based virtual refocusing of images using an engineered point-spread function

Xilin Yang, Luzhe Huang, Yilin Luo, Yichen Wu, Hongda Wang, Yair Rivenson, Aydogan Ozcan ยท 2020

We present a virtual image refocusing method over an extended depth of field (DOF) enabled by cascaded neural networks and a double-helix point-spread function (DH-PSF). This network model, referred tโ€ฆ

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Towards Complex and Continuous Manipulation: A Gesture Based Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand Design

Li Tian, Hanhui Li, Qifa Wang, Xuezeng Du, Jialin Tao, Jordan Sia Chong, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Jianmin Zheng ยท 2020

Most current anthropomorphic robotic hands can realize part of the human hand functions, particularly for object grasping. However, due to the complexity of the human hand, few current designs target โ€ฆ

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Helicality: An Isomap-based Measure of Octave Equivalence in Audio Data

Sripathi Sridhar, Vincent Lostanlen ยท 2020

Octave equivalence serves as domain-knowledge in MIR systems, including chromagram, spiral convolutional networks, and harmonic CQT. Prior work has applied the Isomap manifold learning algorithm to unโ€ฆ

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