Xiujuan Wang¹, Qianqian Zheng^{1, *}, Kangfeng Zheng², Yi Sui¹, Jiayue Zhang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 617-638, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011165 - 23 July 2020

Abstract Malicious social robots are the disseminators of malicious information on social networks, which seriously affect information security and network environments. Efficient and reliable classification of social robots is crucial for detecting information manipulation in social networks. Supervised classification based on manual feature extraction has been widely used in social robot detection. However, these methods not only involve the privacy of users but also ignore hidden feature information, especially the graph feature, and the label utilization rate of semi-supervised algorithms is low. Aiming at the problems of shallow feature extraction and low label utilization rate in… More >

Come Tholomier^1,2, Felix Couture^1,3, Khaled Ajib¹, Felix Preisser^4,5, Helen Davis Bondarenko¹, Cristina Negrean¹, Pierre Karakiewicz^1,4, Assaad El-Hakim⁶, Kevin C. Zorn¹

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.26, No.4, pp. 9843-9851, 2019

Abstract Introduction: Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has grown to be the predominant global surgical approach to treat localized prostate cancer. However, there is still limited access to robotic technology and little data from Canadian cohorts. Herein, we report on our oncological and functional outcomes after 10 years of surgical experience.
Materials and methods: Prospective data from 1,034 RARP cases performed by two high-volume experienced surgeons at two academic centers were collected from October 2006 to June 2017. Preoperative characteristics, surgical, oncological, and functional outcomes were assessed up to 72 months postoperative.
Results: D’Amico risk distribution was 26.1%, 59.8%, and… More >

Alexis Wang¹, Charles F. Polotti², Shu Wang¹, Sammy Elsamra^2,*, Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui^1,*

Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 10033-10038, 2019

Abstract Introduction: Robotic cystectomy with intracorporeal urinary diversion (RCID) is a technically challenging procedure. It is understood that this approach has a learning curve; however, limited studies have characterized this learning curve. The cumulative sum (CUSUM) method plots the learning curve. The aim of this study was to use the CUSUM approach to investigate the number of cases required to reach a consistent, desired performance level for RCID.
Materials and methods: A retrospective study of the first 27 and 28 RCID cases performed by two new fellowship-trained faculty at two separate institutions from November 2014 to January 2018… More >

Jianxun Deng¹, Jing Chen², Dingcheng Wang³

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.34, No.4, pp. 201-206, 2019, DOI:10.32604/csse.2019.34.201

Abstract In order to meet the needs of high-altitude glass curtain wall cleaning, a multi-suction sliding cleaning robot was designed. The sliding robot sucker, cleaning system, obstacle avoidance and rotation ability, walking circuit and mobile working principle of the cleaning robot were designed. This involved the analysis of the robot’s anti-rollover mechanics during adsorption, of robotic winds when working at height, and of anti-sliding mechanics during robot movement, in order to explore feasible ways to improve the robot’s adsorption performance. The relationship between the effective diameter D of the suction cup, the vacuum degree △ P, More >

Li-Hong Juang¹, Shengxiang Zhang²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 451-458, 2019, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000126

Abstract Intelligent robots are the combination of computer engineering, software engineering, control engineering, electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, and systems design engineering in order to design, and manufacture useful products. In this paper, the author derives some novel computing and algorithm applications on computer vision and image processing and intelligent control and navigation of mobile robots for the intelligent service robot system. In this paper, we proposed an idea of flexible design for a intelligent service robot, which refers to a single robot with a variety of flexure structure. We presented an integrated system for vision-guided finding More >

Felipe J. Torres^1,*, Gerardo V. Guerrero², Carlos D. García², Ricardo Zavala-Yoe³, Mario A. García¹, Adolfo R. López⁴

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.121, No.2, pp. 609-630, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.07153

Abstract A complete modeling (including the actuator dynamics) of a robot manipulator that uses three-phase induction motors is presented in this paper. A control scheme is designed to synchronize robot manipulators actuated by induction motors under a masterslave scheme in the case where the joint velocity of the slave robots is estimated. All of the research on the synchronization of robot manipulators assumes the use of ideal actuators to drive the joints; for that reason, in this work, a three-phase induction motor is considered to be a direct-drive actuator for each joint. An entire model of… More >

Ruijiao Yin¹, Jie Yang^1,*

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 37-44, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jai.2019.05815

Abstract Based on the understanding of machine vision localization technology at home and abroad, this paper outlines the overall design of the system, and analyses the working principle and workflow of the robot with vision system in workpiece grinding. The hardware design of the system is introduced. The process of image processing is analyzed in detail, and the results of image processing are given. The basic parameters of camera imaging are taken as internal parameters. The camera calibration is obtained by rotation matrix R and translation parameter T. The coordinate transformation of camera coordinate system and More >

Junjun Jiang¹, Congqing Wang^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.120, No.1, pp. 105-121, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2019.06277

Abstract Aircraft skin health concerns whether the aircraft can fly safely. In this paper, an improved mechanical structure of the aircraft skin inspection robot was introduced. Considering that the aircraft skin surface is a curved environment, we assume that the curved environment is equivalent to an inclined plane with a change in inclination. Based on this assumption, the Cartesian dynamics model of the robot is established using the Lagrange method. In order to control the robot’s movement position accurately, a position backstepping control scheme for the aircraft skin inspection robot was presented. According to the dynamic More >

Tuanjie Li^1,*, Yan Zhang¹, Jiaxing Zhou¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.118, No.3, pp. 583-598, 2019, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2018.04891

Abstract In order to satisfy the high efficiency and high precision of collaborative robots, this work presents a novel trajectory planning method. First, in Cartesian space, a novel velocity look-ahead control algorithm and a cubic polynomial are combined to construct the end-effector trajectory of robots. Then, the joint trajectories can be obtained through the inverse kinematics. In order to improve the smoothness and stability in joint space, the joint trajectories are further adjusted based on the velocity look-ahead control algorithm and quintic B-spline. Finally, the proposed trajectory planning method is tested on a 4-DOF serial collaborative More >

Jinseok Woo, János Botzheim, Naoyuki Kubota

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.4, pp. 829-841, 2018, DOI:10.1080/10798587.2017.1364919

Abstract This paper introduces the integrated system of a smart-device-based cognitive robot partner called iPhonoid-C. Interaction with a robot partner requires many elements, including verbal communication, nonverbal communication, and embodiment as well. A robot partner should be able to understand human sentences, as well as nonverbal information such as human gestures. In the proposed system, the robot has an emotional model connecting the input information from the human with the robot’s behavior. Since emotions are involved in human natural communication, and emotion has a significant impact on humans’ actions, it is important to develop an emotional More >