— In order to enable robotic surgery without human assistance, a means must be developed to change tools. As part of the larger Trauma Pod Project, we developed the Tool Rack Sub...
Diana C. W. Friedman, Jesse Dosher, Tim Kowalewski...
Group communication protocols constitute a basic building block for highly dependable distributed applications. Designing and correctly implementing a group communication system (...
Claudio Basile, Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ra...
Components (in-house or pre-fabricated) are increasingly being used to reduce the cost of software development. Given that these components may not have not been developed with de...
PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availabili...
Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Es...
This paper presents a method of image processing used in a mono-vision system in order to study semiotic gestures. We present a robust method to track the hands and face of a perso...