Brain, Body and Machine Proceedings of an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines /

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, McGill University's Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) invited outstanding researchers from academia and R\&D environments to discuss the state of the art in research areas of interest to CIM. The response is documented in the papers assembled her...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Angeles, Jorge (Editor), Boulet, Benoit (Editor), Clark, James J. (Editor), Kövecses, József (Editor), Siddiqi, Kaleem (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Series:Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 83
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-Robot Interaction
  • 3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning
  • Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound and MRI: Comparing Two Approaches on Nine Tumor Cases
  • A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration
  • Designing a Metric for the Difference between Gaussian Densities
  • Physical Asymmetries and Brightness Perception
  • A Learning-Based Patient Repositioning Method from Limited-Angle Projections
  • Image and Video Region Saliency Based on Space and Motion
  • Generalized PCA via the Backward Stepwise Approach in Image Analysis
  • Performance of MRF-Based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes
  • Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation
  • A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies
  • Robust Design of 2nd Order Terminal ILC Using ?-Analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach
  • Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot
  • Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-Driven Haptic Interface
  • Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum
  • Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality
  • Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction
  • Sliding-Mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-Steering Mobile Robot
  • On the Design and Validation of an Intelligent Powered Wheelchair: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project
  • Devon Island as a Proving Ground for Planetary Rovers
  • Leader-Follower Cucker-Smale Type Flocking Synthesized via Mean Field Stochastic Control Theory
  • Dynamic Locomotion with a Wheeled-Legged Quadruped Robot
  • Underactuated Cable-Driven Robots: Machine, Control and Suspended Bodies
  • Computing the Rigid-Body Acceleration Field from Nine Accelerometer Measurements
  • Singularity Analysis of a Six-Dof Parallel Manipulator Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Gröbner Bases.