Advances in Robotics and Virtual Reality

Part I. Advanced Robotic Systems in Practice

1. High-Field MRI-Compatible Needle Placement Robots for Prostate Interventions: Pneumatic and Piezoelectric Approaches
Hao Su, Gregory A. Cole, Gregory S. Fischer

2. A Robot for Surgery: Design, Control and Testing
Basem Fayez Yousef

3. Force Sensing and Control in Robot-Assisted Suspended Cell Injection System
Haibo Huang, Dong Sun, Hao Su, James K. Mills

4. Advanced Hybrid Technology for Neurorehabilitation: The HYPER Project
Alessandro Mauro, Eduardo Carrasco, David Oyarzun, Aitor Ardanza, Anselmo Frizera-Neto, Diego Torricelli, José Luis Pons, Angel Gil Agudo, Julian Florez

5. Toward Bezier Curve Bank-Turn Trajectory Generation for Flying Robot
Affiani Machmudah, Setyamartana Parman, Azman Zainuddin

Part II. Enabling Human Computer Interaction

6. Audio-Visual Speech Processing for Human Computer Interaction
Siew Wen Chin, Kah Phooi Seng, Li-Minn Ang

7. Solving Deceptive Tasks in Robot Body-Brain Co-evolution by Searching for Behavioral Novelty
Peter Krčah

8. From Dialogue Management to Pervasive Interaction Based Assistive Technology
Yong Lin, Fillia Makedon

9. De-SIGN: Robust Gesture Recognition in Conceptual Design, Sensor Analysis and Synthesis
Manolya Kavakli, Ali Boyali

10. Image Segmentation of Cross-Country Scenes Captured in IR Spectrum
Artem Lenskiy

Part III. 3D Virtual Reality Environments

11. Virtual Reality as a Surrogate Sensory Environment
Theodore W. Hall, Mojtaba Navvab, Eric Maslowski, Sean Petty

12. Operating High-DoF Articulated Robots Using Virtual Links and Joints
Marsette A. Vona

13. GPU-Based Real-Time Virtual Reality Modeling and Simulation of Seashore
Minzhi Luo, Guanghong Gong, Abdelkader Kamel

14. Data Processing for Virtual Reality
Csaba Szabó, Štefan Korečko, Branislav Sobota

15. Virtual Reality Technology for Blind and Visual Impaired People: Reviews and Recent Advances
Neveen I. Ghali, Omar Soluiman, Nashwa El-Bendary, Tamer M. Nassef, Sara A. Ahmed, Yomna M. Elbarawy, Aboul Ella Hassanien

Nyckelord: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Robotics and Automation