Introducing some form of autonomy in robotic surgery is being considered by the medical
community to better exploit the potential of robots in the operating room. However, significant …

Human beings are constantly interacting with systems surrounding them. These include
personal computers, automobiles, and smart appliances, among many others. It is expected …

In the smart wheelchair field the research problematics consists in applying methods coming
from mobile robotics to navigation assistance for people with motor disabilities. In this paper …

A new intelligent fusion scheme for human operator command and autonomous
planner/controller in telerobotic system has been developed based on the event-based …

There has been increasing attention on human-machine cooperative teleoperation due to
limited capabilities of autonomous robots. A method of sensor and model assisted …

In the smart wheelchair field the research problematics consists in applying methods coming
from mobile robotics to navigation assistance for people with motor disabilities. In this …

This paper discusses adeictic strategy for human/robot interaction based on models of
human motor control. The human operator uses gestures to momentarily bind autonomous …

Human integration is essential in systems where autonomous control alone would not be
successful. In this paper, we present a framework for integrating a human supervisor into an …

The promise of automatic and efficient remote operations has fallen short of expectations
due to the limited ability of computers to reason and plan in unstructured environments and …

Complex tasks in unstructured/hazardous environments often require teleoperation. The
telepresence robot featured here has" user friendly" limb linked output and feedback …