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A Soft Robotic Interface for Chick-Robot Affective Interactions

Jue Chen, Alexander Mielke, Kaspar Althoefer, Elisabetta Versace · 2026

The potential of Animal-Robot Interaction (ARI) in welfare applications depends on how much an animal perceives a robotic agent as socially relevant, non-threatening and potentially attractive (accept…

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LineMaster Pro: A Low-Cost Intelligent Line Following Robot with PID Control and Ultrasonic Obstacle Avoidance for Educational Robotics

Jeni Shahi, Abhishek Shah, A. S. M. Ahsanul Sarkar Akib · 2026

Line following robots are fundamental platforms in robotics education, yet commercially available solutions remain prohibitively expensive ($150-300$) while lacking integrated obstacle detection capab…

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Model-free practical PI-Lead control design by ultimate sensitivity principle

Michael Ruderman · 2025

Practical design and tuning of feedback controllers has to do often without any model of the given dynamic process. Only some general assumptions about the process, in this work type-one stable behavi…

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Translating Milli/Microrobots with A Value-Centered Readiness Framework

Hakan Ceylan, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Sanjay Misra, Pankaj J. Pasricha, Dietmar W. Hutmacher · 2025

Untethered mobile milli/microrobots hold transformative potential for interventional medicine by enabling more precise and entirely non-invasive diagnosis and therapy. Realizing this promise requires …

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Pointing-Guided Target Estimation via Transformer-Based Attention

Luca Muller, Hassan Ali, Philipp Allgeuer, Lukas Gajdosech, Stefan Wermter · 2025

Deictic gestures, like pointing, are a fundamental form of non-verbal communication, enabling humans to direct attention to specific objects or locations. This capability is essential in Human-Robot I…

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Keypoint-based Diffusion for Robotic Motion Planning on the NICOL Robot

Lennart Clasmeier, Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Connor Gade, Philipp Allgeuer, Stefan Wermter · 2025

We propose a novel diffusion-based action model for robotic motion planning. Commonly, established numerical planning approaches are used to solve general motion planning problems, but have significan…

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A Novel Attention-Augmented Wavelet YOLO System for Real-time Brain Vessel Segmentation on Transcranial Color-coded Doppler

Wenxuan Zhang, Shuai Li, Xinyi Wang, Yu Sun, Hongyu Kang, Pui Yuk Chryste Wan, Jing Qin, Yuanpeng Zhang, Yong-Ping Zheng, Sai-Kit Lam · 2025

The Circle of Willis (CoW), vital for ensuring consistent blood flow to the brain, is closely linked to ischemic stroke. Accurate assessment of the CoW is important for identifying individuals at risk…

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A Spectral-Based Tuning Criterion for PI Controllers in IPDT Systems With Unified Tracking and Disturbance Rejection Performance

Dhamdhawach Horsuwan · 2025

This paper proposes a spectral-based tuning method for proportional-integral (PI) controllers in integrating-plus-dead-time (IPDT) systems. The design objective is to achieve unified exponential decay…

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PID Tuning via Desired Step Response Curve Fitting

Senol Gulgonul · 2025

This paper presents a PID tuning method based on step response curve fitting (PID-SRCF) that utilizes L2-norm minimization for precise reference tracking and explicit transient response shaping. The a…

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Online Optimal Parameter Compensation method of High-dimensional PID Controller for Robust stability

Zimao Sheng, Hong'an Yang · 2025

Classical PID control is widely applied in an engineering system, with parameter regulation relying on a method like Trial - Error Tuning or the Ziegler - Nichols rule, mainly for a Single - Input Sin…

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Shaken, Not Stirred: A Novel Dataset for Visual Understanding of Glasses in Human-Robot Bartending Tasks

Lukas Gajdosech, Hassan Ali, Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Martin Madaras, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan Wermter · 2025

Datasets for object detection often do not account for enough variety of glasses, due to their transparent and reflective properties. Specifically, open-vocabulary object detectors, widely used in emb…

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RELICT: A Replica Detection Framework for Medical Image Generation

Orhun Utku Aydin, Alexander Koch, Adam Hilbert, Jana Rieger, Felix Lohrke, Fujimaro Ishida, Satoru Tanioka, Dietmar Frey · 2025

Despite the potential of synthetic medical data for augmenting and improving the generalizability of deep learning models, memorization in generative models can lead to unintended leakage of sensitive…

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S\'eparation en composantes structures, textures et bruit d'une image, apport de l'utilisation des contourlettes

Jerome Gilles · 2024

In this paper, we propose to improve image decomposition algorithms in the case of noisy images. In \cite{gilles1,aujoluvw}, the authors propose to separate structures, textures and noise from an imag…

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Magnetic Milli-spinner for Robotic Endovascular Surgery

Shuai Wu, Sophie Leanza, Lu Lu, Yilong Chang, Qi Li, Diego Stone, Ruike Renee Zhao · 2024

Vascular diseases such as thrombosis, atherosclerosis, and aneurysm, which can lead to blockage of blood flow or blood vessel rupture, are common and life-threatening. Conventional minimally invasive …

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Topology-Aware Exploration of Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA: Segmentation, Detection, and Classification

Minghui Zhang, Xin You, Hanxiao Zhang, Yun Gu · 2024

The Circle of Willis (CoW) vessels is critical to connecting major circulations of the brain. The topology of the vascular structure is clinical significance to evaluate the risk, severity of the neur…

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Revisi\'on de M\'etodos de Planificaci\'on de Camino de Cobertura para Entornos Agr\'icolas

Ismael Ait, Ernesto Kofman, Taihu Pire · 2024

The use of an efficient coverage planning method is key for autonomous navigation in agricultural environments, where a robot must cover large areas of crops. This paper generally reviews the current …

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Inverse Kinematics for Neuro-Robotic Grasping with Humanoid Embodied Agents

Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Connor Gade, Philipp Allgeuer, Stefan Wermter · 2024

This paper introduces a novel zero-shot motion planning method that allows users to quickly design smooth robot motions in Cartesian space. A B\'ezier curve-based Cartesian plan is transformed into a …

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Large Language Models for Orchestrating Bimanual Robots

Kun Chu, Xufeng Zhao, Cornelius Weber, Mengdi Li, Wenhao Lu, Stefan Wermter · 2024

Although there has been rapid progress in endowing robots with the ability to solve complex manipulation tasks, generating control policies for bimanual robots to solve tasks involving two hands is st…

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A vascular synthetic model for improved aneurysm segmentation and detection via Deep Neural Networks

Rafic Nader, Florent Autrusseau, Vincent L'Allinec, Romain Bourcier · 2024

We hereby present a full synthetic model, able to mimic the various constituents of the cerebral vascular tree: the cerebral arteries, the bifurcations and the intracranial aneurysms. By building this…

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Topologically Faithful Multi-class Segmentation in Medical Images

Alexander H. Berger, Nico Stucki, Laurin Lux, Vincent Buergin, Suprosanna Shit, Anna Banaszak, Daniel Rueckert, Ulrich Bauer, Johannes C. Paetzold · 2024

Topological accuracy in medical image segmentation is a highly important property for downstream applications such as network analysis and flow modeling in vessels or cell counting. Recently, signific…

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