Because of the increasing use of laparoscopic surgeries, robotic technologies have been
developed to overcome the challenges these surgeries impose on surgeons. This paper …

Speech recognition is common in electronic appliances and personal services, but its use
for industrial and medical purposes is rare because of the presence of motion ambiguity. For …

Objective: The goal of this paper is to achieve a novel 3-D-gaze-based human-robot-
interaction modality, with which a user with motion impairment can intuitively express what …

Collaborative robots allow to relieve humans from tedious and/or tiring tasks while leaving to
the operator high-level activities, where their expertise is needed. In this paper the …

This paper presents the modeling and control process of recently developed manipulator
with 3 limbs having prismatic-universal-universal (3-PUU) joints. It has 3 degrees of freedom …

Laparoscopic robots have been widely adopted in modern medical practice. However,
explicitly interacting with these robots may increase the physical and cognitive load on the …

The aim of this thesis is to describe novel methods that facilitate autonomous robotic
endoscope assistance, which is derived from actual surgical know-how. In minimally …

In this work, a control method for a robotic laparoscope using a motion sensor, namely
Kinect for Windows, is proposed so that the surgeon can operate the laparoscope with …

In recent years, great efforts have been put into the investigation of assistive robotics.
However, rapid growth in robot functionality has caused control of these robots to become …

Shared control in teleoperation leverages both human and robot's strengths and has
demonstrated great advantages of reducing the difficulties in teleoperating a robot and …