Robotic ball catching with an eye-in-hand single-camera system

P Cigliano, V Lippiello, F Ruggiero… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a unified control framework is proposed to realize a robotic ball catching task
with only a moving single-camera (eye-in-hand) system able to catch flying, rolling, and …

Surgical instrument tracking by multiple monocular modules and a sensor fusion approach

J Wang, S Song, H Ren, CM Lim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a sensor fusion-based surgical instrument tracking system which uses
multiple monocular modules. The system is an optical tracking system, which has been …

A robust 6-D pose tracking approach by fusing a multi-camera tracking device and an AHRS module

Z Wang, H Dai, Y Zeng, TC Lueth - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical tracking technique based on multiple cameras is widely employed in robots, virtual
reality, and industrial measurements due to its excellent position accuracy. However, its 6-D …

Tracking-by-registration: A robust approach for optical tracking system in surgical navigation

J Wang, T Zhang, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical tracking system (OTS) is an important part of surgical navigation and has been
widely employed in clinical practice due to high accuracy and reliability. However, current …

Marker-based surgical instrument tracking using dual kinect sensors

H Ren, W Liu, A Lim - IEEE transactions on automation science …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a passive-marker-based optical tracking system utilizing dual Kinect
sensors and additional custom optical tracking components. To obtain sub-millimeter …

Prior knowledge-based optimization method for the reconstruction model of multicamera optical tracking system

H Dai, Y Zeng, Z Wang, H Lin, M Lin… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The optical tracking system (OTS) plays a vital role in the computer-assisted surgical
navigation process, whereas the performance of the commonly used binocular stereo vision …

Virtual visual servoing for multicamera pose estimation

A Assa, F Janabi-Sharifi - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploiting multiple cameras for object pose estimation contributes toward achieving
enhanced accuracy and robustness to measurement faultiness. Nonlinear optimization …

Towards occlusion-free surgical instrument tracking: A modular monocular approach and an agile calibration method

J Wang, MQH Meng, H Ren - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical means of instrument tracking has been widely used in image-guided interventions
and considered the de facto standard for tracking rigid bodies with a direct line-of-sight …

Distributed visual positioning for surgical instrument tracking

Y Cai, M Zhu, B He, J Zhang - Physical and Engineering Sciences in …, 2024 - Springer
In clinical operations, it is crucial for surgeons to know the location of the surgical instrument.
Traditional positioning systems have difficulty dealing with camera occlusion, marker …

3D monocular robotic ball catching

V Lippiello, F Ruggiero, B Siciliano - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
A new method to catch a thrown ball with a robot endowed with an eye-in-hand monocular
visual system integrated into a gripper is proposed. As soon as the thrown ball is recognized …