Differentiable Few-view CT-Reconstruction for Arbitrary CT-Trajectories including Prior Knowledge by Linda-Sophie Schneider, Adrian Waldyra, Yipeng Sun, Andreas K. Maier

“… Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in non-destructive testing (NDT), but the increasing flexibility of robot-based CT systems often results in more sparse and unevenly distributed projection data. …”
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End-to-end Projection Optimization Net for Short Scan CBCT Reconstruction by Xuan Zhou, Yuedong Liu, Cunfeng Wei

“…  Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is commonly used in industry due to the advantage of large field of view and high imaging efficiency. Robot CT is a unique CBCT system which consists of two independent manipulators carrying the source and detector. …”
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VATS Lobectomy: Surgical Evolution from Conventional VATS to Uniportal Approach by Diego Gonzalez-Rivas

“…Further development of new technologies like sealing devices for all vessels and fissure, robotic arms that open inside the thorax, and wireless cameras will facilitate the uniportal approach to become the standard surgical procedure for pulmonary resection in most thoracic departments.…”
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The Prevalence of Climacturia in Patients after Radical Prostatectomy: A Systematic Review by João Vítor Ferrão, Alice Scalzilli Becker, Gustavo Konopka, Gustavo Bangemann, Thiago Oliboni, Nilson Marquardt Filho, Carlos Teodósio Da Ros, Gustavo Franco Carvalhal

“…Within these studies, 5,208 patients were evaluated, among which 1,417 cases of climacturia were identified, with a prevalence of 27.2%. When we analyzed the robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) subgroup, the prevalence of climacturia was 5.7% vs 1.8% the open radical prostatectomy (ORP) subgroup. …”
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Pose Determination for Malfunctioned Satellites Based on Depth Information by Feng Yu, Yi Zhao, Yanhua Zhang

“…Relative pose estimation for a malfunctioned satellite is one of the key technologies to achieve robotic on-orbit servicing. In this paper, a relative pose determination method by using point cloud is presented for the final phase of the rendezvous and docking of malfunctioned satellites. …”
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Research and Implementation of Intelligent Home Pension System Based on Speech and Semantic Recognition by Guokun Xie, Sen Hao, Peipei Zhang, Ningning Wang

“…It has been proved that the key technology of speech recognition has been developed rapidly, the speech recognition rate has been improved (up to 97%) and the low-power speech wake up technology had breakthrough, the use of voice interaction is gradually expanding to intelligent hardware and robots, and voice interaction is undoubtedly the mainstream intelligent home pension system interaction mode after keyboard, mouse, and touch screen and also the main entrance of the future intelligent home pension system.…”
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New Cubic Trigonometric Bezier-Like Functions with Shape Parameter: Curvature and Its Spiral Segment by Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Abbas, Amna Abdul Sittar, Mohsin Kamran, Saba Tahseen, Homan Emadifar

“…Using proposed basis functions, we have constructed the spiral segment which is very useful to construct fair curves and desirable to design trajectories of mobile robots, highway, and railway routes’ designing.…”
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Design and Analysis of the Bionic Mechanical Foot with High Trafficability on Sand by Rui Zhang, Hao Pang, Haijin Wan, Dianlei Han, Guoyu Li, Lige Wen

“…This study provides a new research method for the walking mechanism of a robot and deep space exploration platform walking on soft ground.…”
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Human Position Detection Based on Depth Camera Image Information in Mechanical Safety by Cheng Zhou, Dacong Ren, Xiangyan Zhang, Cungui Yu, Likai Ju

“…Meanwhile, a human position detection method based on Intel RealSense depth camera and MobileNet-SSD algorithm is proposed and applied to robot safety protection. The result shows that the image information collected by the depth camera can detect the human position in real time, which can replace the existing mechanical safety human position detection device. …”
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A Case Report of a Subdural Hematoma following Spinal Epidural prior to a Total Knee Arthroplasty by Brian J. Carlson, David G. Deckey, Henry D. Clarke, Joshua S. Bingham

“…A 66-year-old male presented to the emergency department five days after elective robotic-assisted left total knee arthroplasty performed with spinal epidural with the symptoms of a persistent nonpostural headache. …”
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Design and Implementation of a GaN-Based Composite Hybrid Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter for Space Applications by Samantha Coday, Elisa Krause, Margaret E. Blackwell, Rahul K. Iyer, Nathan M. Ellis, Ansel Barchowsky, Robert C.N. Pilawa-Podgurski

“…To enable next generation robotic space exploration, innovations in the area of high step-down voltage converters is necessary. …”
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A Repeatable Optimization for Kinematic Energy System with Its Mobile Manipulator Application by Ying Kong, Ruiyang Zhang, Yunliang Jiang, Xiaoyun Xia

“…Theoretical analysis and verifications show that the proposed optimal kinematic energy scheme accelerates the convergent rate, which is tended to be applied in practical robot kinematics. Simulation results on the manipulator with three mobile wheels substantiate the timeliness and repetitiveness of the proposed optimization scheme.…”
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Multidimensional free shape-morphing flexible neuromorphic devices with regulation at arbitrary points by Jiaqi Liu, Chengpeng Jiang, Qianbo Yu, Yao Ni, Cunjiang Yu, Wentao Xu

“…Leveraging the remarkable deformation effect, we demonstrate hazard detection-avoidance robot, and multidimensional integration for arbitrary programmed shapes like 360° panoramic information capture and soft-bodied biological deformations wherein localized responses to stimuli are harmoniously integrated to achieve arbitrary coordinated motion. …”
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The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Education: A Systematic Review by Cong Liu, Guang-Chao Wang, Hong-Feng Wang

“…Furthermore, the study categorizes the application of AI technologies in engineering education into seven distinct categories: Virtual Experiment Environments, Learning Prediction, Learning Analytics, Engineering Education Robots, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Automatic Evaluation, and Assisted Learning. …”
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Malignant biliary obstruction treated with preoperative endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy: A case report by Taira Kuroda, Hideki Miyata, Yuka Kimura, Ayaka Nakamura, Takuya Matsuda, Kana Matsuoka, Mai Fukumoto, Kazuya Murakawa, Taisei Murakami, Hirofumi Izumoto, Kei Onishi, Shogo Kitahata, Kozue Kanemitsu-Okada, Tomoe Kawamura, Fujimasa Tada, Eiji Tsubouchi, Jun Hanaoka, Atsushi Hiraoka, Tomoyuki Ninomiya

“…The fistula in our patient was promptly identified and the stent was safely removed despite the relatively limited field of view during robot-assisted laparoscopy. The promising findings of our case report can be used to inform EUS-based surgical strategies for biliary drainage with obstructive jaundice.…”
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PGN: Progressively Guided Network with Pixel-Wise Attention for Underwater Image Enhancement by Huidi Jia, Qiang Wang, Bo Fu, Zhimin Zheng, Yandong Tang

“…Light scattering and attenuation in water degrade underwater images with low visibility and color distortion, which often interfere with the high-level visual tasks of underwater autonomous robots. Most existing deep learning methods for underwater image enhancement only supervise the final output of network and ignore the promotion effect of the intermediate results on the final feature representation. …”
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A Three-Step Heuristic Approach to the Electric Vehicle Path Planning Problem considering Charging by Shengping Yu, Yunfang Wang, Ruiyou Zhang, Junxiang Wang

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Chondrosternal Arthritis in Infant: An Unusual Entity by Athina Nikolarakou, Dana Dumitriu, Pierre-Louis Docquier

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Prevention and Detection Research of Intelligent Sports Rehabilitation under the Background of Artificial Intelligence by Qiong Huang, Fubin Wang

“…This paper is aimed at studying the prevention and detection of sports rehabilitation in the context of artificial intelligence and proposing a compliance control method for lower limb rehabilitation robots based on artificial neural networks. In this paper, a double closed-loop control system is designed: the outer loop is an adaptive impedance control model based on sEMG feedback, and the purpose is to adjust the predicted desired joint trajectories. …”
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Techniques for Finding Analytical Solution of Generalized Fuzzy Differential Equations with Applications by Mudassir Shams, Nasreen Kausar, Naveed Yaqoob, Nayyab Arif, Gezahagne Mulat Addis

“…The outcomes of numerical test applications were compared to exact technique solutions, and it was shown that our generalized modified Adomian decomposition method is efficient, robotic, and reliable, as well as simple to implement.…”
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