23 research outputs found
3D Human Pose Estimation on a Configurable Bed from a Pressure Image
Robots have the potential to assist people in bed, such as in healthcare
settings, yet bedding materials like sheets and blankets can make observation
of the human body difficult for robots. A pressure-sensing mat on a bed can
provide pressure images that are relatively insensitive to bedding materials.
However, prior work on estimating human pose from pressure images has been
restricted to 2D pose estimates and flat beds. In this work, we present two
convolutional neural networks to estimate the 3D joint positions of a person in
a configurable bed from a single pressure image. The first network directly
outputs 3D joint positions, while the second outputs a kinematic model that
includes estimated joint angles and limb lengths. We evaluated our networks on
data from 17 human participants with two bed configurations: supine and seated.
Our networks achieved a mean joint position error of 77 mm when tested with
data from people outside the training set, outperforming several baselines. We
also present a simple mechanical model that provides insight into ambiguity
associated with limbs raised off of the pressure mat, and demonstrate that
Monte Carlo dropout can be used to estimate pose confidence in these
situations. Finally, we provide a demonstration in which a mobile manipulator
uses our network's estimated kinematic model to reach a location on a person's
body in spite of the person being seated in a bed and covered by a blanket.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figure
Interleaving Planning and Control for Efficient Haptically-guided Reaching in Unknown Environments
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and control (HIPC) method with a haptic mapping framework.
HIPC runs two planning methods, interleaving a task-space and a joint-space planner, to provide fast reaching performance. It continually replans a valid trajectory, alternating between planners and quickly reflecting collected tactile information from an unknown environment. One key idea is that tactile sensing can be used to directly map an immediate cause of interference when reaching. The mapping framework efficiently assigns raw tactile information from whole-arm tactile sensors
into a 3D voxel-based collision map. Our method uses a previously published contact-regulating controller based on model predictive control (MPC). In our evaluation with a physics simulation of a humanoid robot, interleaving was superior at reaching in the 9 types of environments we used
The surviving spouse in Spanish law
Artículo del Dossier: Sobrevivir al conyuge: viudas y viudedad en la España Moderna.Este artículo va a abordar la problemática derivada de la ruptura del vínculo matrimonial por
muerte de uno de los cónyuges y cómo los diversos sistemas jurídicos hispanos han regulado ese
tránsito y sus efectos personales y económicos sobre el cónyuge superviviente. El tempus lugendi,
las segundas nupcias, la restitución dotal, el usufructo vidual o la tutela son algunas de las problemáticas
estudiadas. Los sistemas jurídicos de la Valencia foral, Cataluña y el derecho territorial de
Castilla han sido los ejes vertebradores de este trabajo, con algunas referencias puntuales a Aragón
y Navarra. No obstante la parcialidad de este acercamiento pienso que se ofrece una visión clara
de lo que es a la vez unidad y diversidad de las legislaciones, las raíces comunes y las soluciones
particulares.This article tackles the problems arising from the breaking of the matrimonial bond due to
the death of one of the spouses and how the different Spanish legal systems have regulated this
transition and its personal and economic effects on the surviving spouse. Tempus lugendi, second
marriages, dowry restitution, curtsey rights and custody are some of the problems studied. The legal
systems of the “Foral” Valencia, Catalonia and the territorial law of Castile have been the backbones
of this piece of research, with some occasional references to Aragon and Navarre. Notwithstanding
the partiality of this approach, I think that a clear view is offered of what is both the unity and
diversity of the legislations, the common roots and specific solutions.Departamento de Historia Moderna y de América, Universidad de Granada
Towards Reliable Colorectal Cancer Polyps Classification via Vision Based Tactile Sensing and Confidence-Calibrated Neural Networks
In this study, toward addressing the over-confident outputs of existing
artificial intelligence-based colorectal cancer (CRC) polyp classification
techniques, we propose a confidence-calibrated residual neural network.
Utilizing a novel vision-based tactile sensing (VS-TS) system and unique CRC
polyp phantoms, we demonstrate that traditional metrics such as accuracy and
precision are not sufficient to encapsulate model performance for handling a
sensitive CRC polyp diagnosis. To this end, we develop a residual neural
network classifier and address its over-confident outputs for CRC polyps
classification via the post-processing method of temperature scaling. To
evaluate the proposed method, we introduce noise and blur to the obtained
textural images of the VS-TS and test the model's reliability for non-ideal
inputs through reliability diagrams and other statistical metrics
Optimization of Robot Configurations for Assistive Tasks
Robots can provide assistance with activities of daily
living (ADLs) to humans with motor impairments. Specialized
robots, such as desktop robotic feeding systems, have been
successful for specific assistive tasks when placed in fixed and
designated positions with respect to the user. General-purpose
mobile manipulators could act as a more versatile form of
assistive technology, able to perform many tasks, but selecting a
configuration for the robots from which to perform a task can be
challenging due to the high number of degrees of freedom of the
robots and the complexity of the tasks. As with the specialized,
fixed robots, once in a good configuration, another system or the
user can provide the fine control to perform the details of the task.
In this short paper, we present Task-centric Optimization of robot
Configurations (TOC), a method for selecting configurations for
a PR2 and a robotic bed to allow the PR2 to provide effective
assistance with ADLs. TOC builds upon previous work, Task-centric
initial Configuration Selection (TCS), addressing some
of the limitations of TCS. Notable alterations are selecting
configurations from the continuous configuration space using
a Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES)
optimization, introducing a joint-limit-weighted manipulability
term, and changing the framework to move all optimization
offline and using function approximation at run-time. To evaluate
TOC, we created models of 13 activities of daily living (ADLs) and
compared TOC’s and TCS’s performance with these 13 assistive
tasks in a computer simulation of a PR2, a robotic bed, and a
model of a human body. TOC performed as well or better than
TCS in most of our tests against state estimation error. We also
implemented TOC on a real PR2 and a real robotic bed and
found that from the TOC-selected configuration the PR2 could
reach all task-relevant goals on a mannequin on the bed
Collaboration Between a Robotic Bed and a Mobile Manipulator May Improve Physical Assistance for People with Disabilities
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physical assistance to a person in bed. The system consists
of a robotic bed (Autobed) and a mobile manipulator (PR2)
that work together. The 3 degree-of-freedom (DoF) robotic
bed moves the person’s body and uses a pressure sensing
mat to estimate the body’s position. The mobile manipulator
positions itself with respect to the bed and compliantly moves
a lightweight object with one of its 7-DoF arms. The system
optimizes its motions with respect to a task model and a model
of the human’s body. The user provides high-level supervision
to the system via a web-based interface. We first evaluated the
ability of the robotic bed to estimate the location of the head of a
person in a supine configuration via a study with 7 able-bodied
participants. This estimation was robust to bedding, including
a pillow under the person’s head. We then evaluated the ability
of the full system to autonomously reach task-relevant poses on
a medical mannequin placed in a supine position on the bed.
We found that the robotic bed’s motion and perception each
improved the overall system’s performance. Our results suggest
that this type of multi-robot system could more effectively bring
objects to desired locations with respect to the user’s body than
a mobile manipulator working alone. This may in turn lead to
improved physical assistance for people with disabilities at home
and in healthcare facilities, since many assistive tasks involve
an object being moved with respect to a person’s body