Brain, Body and Machine

1. Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-Robot Interaction
Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani, Vincenzo Lippiello, Agostino Santis

2. 3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning
Yi Gao, Benjamin W. Corn, Dan Schifter, Allen Tannenbaum

3. Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound and MRI: Comparing Two Approaches on Nine Tumor Cases
Laurence Mercier, Vladimir Fonov, Rolando F. Maestro, Kevin Petrecca, Lasse R. Østergaard, D. Louis Collins

4. A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration
Carmen E. Au, James J. Clark

5. Designing a Metric for the Difference between Gaussian Densities
Karim T. Abou–Moustafa, Fernando Torre, Frank P. Ferrie

6. Physical Asymmetries and Brightness Perception
James J. Clark

7. A Learning-Based Patient Repositioning Method from Limited-Angle Projections
Chen-Rui Chou, C. Brandon Frederick, Sha X. Chang, Stephen M. Pizer

8. Image and Video Region Saliency Based on Space and Motion
Jian Li, Martin Levine, Xiangjing An, Zhenping Sun, Hangen He

9. Generalized PCA via the Backward Stepwise Approach in Image Analysis
Sungkyu Jung, Xiaoxiao Liu, J. S. Marron, Stephen M. Pizer

10. Performance of MRF-Based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes
Fahim Mannan, Michael Langer

11. Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation
Svetlana Stolpner, Paul Kry, Kaleem Siddiqi

12. A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies
Eric Barnett, Jorge Angeles, Damiano Pasini, Pieter Sijpkes

13. Robust Design of 2nd Order Terminal ILC Using μ-Analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach
Guy Gauthier, Mathieu Beauchemin-Turcotte, Benoit Boulet

14. Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot
Jorge Solis, Atsuo Takanishi, Kunimatsu Hashimoto

15. Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-Driven Haptic Interface
Martin J. -D. Otis, Sylvain Comtois, Denis Laurendeau, Clément Gosselin

16. Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum
Xinjilefu, Vincent Hayward, Hannah Michalska

17. Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality
Kamel Zaarouri, Ahmad Haidar, Benoit Boulet

18. Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction
Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Robert Sim, Gregory Dudek

19. Sliding-Mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-Steering Mobile Robot
Eric Lucet, Christophe Grand, Philippe Bidaud

20. On the Design and Validation of an Intelligent Powered Wheelchair: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project
Joelle Pineau, Amin Atrash, Robert Kaplow, Julien Villemure

21. Devon Island as a Proving Ground for Planetary Rovers
Timothy D. Barfoot, Paul T. Furgale, Braden E. Stenning, Patrick J. F. Carle, John P. Enright, Pascal Lee

22. Leader-Follower Cucker-Smale Type Flocking Synthesized via Mean Field Stochastic Control Theory
Mojtaba Nourian, Peter E. Caines, Roland P. Malhamé, Minyi Huang

23. Dynamic Locomotion with a Wheeled-Legged Quadruped Robot
I. Sharf

24. Underactuated Cable-Driven Robots: Machine, Control and Suspended Bodies
Clément Gosselin, Simon Lefrançois, Nathaniel Zoso

25. Computing the Rigid-Body Acceleration Field from Nine Accelerometer Measurements
Philippe Cardou

26. Singularity Analysis of a Six-Dof Parallel Manipulator Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Gröbner Bases
Stéphane Caro, Guillaume Moroz, Thibault Gayral, Damien Chablat, Chao Chen

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction