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Brain, Body and Machine

Proceedings of an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines

  • Recent research on Brain, Body and Machine
  • Results of an International Symposium on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines
  • Written by leading experts in the field

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (AINSC, volume 83)

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Table of contents (26 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-Robot Interaction

    • Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani, Vincenzo Lippiello, Agostino De Santis
    Pages 1-16
  3. 3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning

    • Yi Gao, Benjamin W. Corn, Dan Schifter, Allen Tannenbaum
    Pages 17-31
  4. Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound and MRI: Comparing Two Approaches on Nine Tumor Cases

    • Laurence Mercier, Vladimir Fonov, Rolando F. Del Maestro, Kevin Petrecca, Lasse R. Østergaard, D. Louis Collins
    Pages 33-43
  5. A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration

    • Carmen E. Au, James J. Clark
    Pages 45-55
  6. Designing a Metric for the Difference between Gaussian Densities

    • Karim T. Abou–Moustafa, Fernando De La Torre, Frank P. Ferrie
    Pages 57-70
  7. A Learning-Based Patient Repositioning Method from Limited-Angle Projections

    • Chen-Rui Chou, C. Brandon Frederick, Sha X. Chang, Stephen M. Pizer
    Pages 83-94
  8. Image and Video Region Saliency Based on Space and Motion

    • Jian Li, Martin Levine, Xiangjing An, Zhenping Sun, Hangen He
    Pages 95-109
  9. Generalized PCA via the Backward Stepwise Approach in Image Analysis

    • Sungkyu Jung, Xiaoxiao Liu, J. S. Marron, Stephen M. Pizer
    Pages 111-123
  10. Performance of MRF-Based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes

    • Fahim Mannan, Michael Langer
    Pages 125-136
  11. Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation

    • Svetlana Stolpner, Paul Kry, Kaleem Siddiqi
    Pages 137-148
  12. A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies

    • Eric Barnett, Jorge Angeles, Damiano Pasini, Pieter Sijpkes
    Pages 149-162
  13. Robust Design of 2nd Order Terminal ILC Using μ-Analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach

    • Guy Gauthier, Mathieu Beauchemin-Turcotte, Benoit Boulet
    Pages 163-174
  14. Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot

    • Jorge Solis, Atsuo Takanishi, Kunimatsu Hashimoto
    Pages 175-186
  15. Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-Driven Haptic Interface

    • Martin J. -D. Otis, Sylvain Comtois, Denis Laurendeau, Clément Gosselin
    Pages 187-200
  16. Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum

    • Xinjilefu, Vincent Hayward, Hannah Michalska
    Pages 201-215
  17. Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality

    • Kamel Zaarouri, Ahmad Haidar, Benoit Boulet
    Pages 217-225
  18. Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction

    • Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Robert Sim, Gregory Dudek
    Pages 227-245
  19. Sliding-Mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-Steering Mobile Robot

    • Eric Lucet, Christophe Grand, Philippe Bidaud
    Pages 247-258

About this book

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, McGill University's Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) invited outstanding researchers from academia and R\&D environments to discuss the state of the art in research areas of interest to CIM. The response is documented in the papers assembled here, under the umbrella of the {\em International Symposium on Brain, Body and Machine}, held in Montreal on November 10--13, 2010. Areas of interest include heuristic algorithms, computer vision, medical imaging, haptics, human-machine interaction, systems and control, robot design and control, and multibody system dynamics. Applications cover a road spectrum, from shape identification and reconstruction to drug-dose regulation and body-motion detection and control. Contributors come from research laboratories based all over the world, not only from academia, but also from government agencies and industry.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering & Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Jorge Angeles, József Kövecses

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Benoit Boulet, James J. Clark

  • School of Computer Science & Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Kaleem Siddiqi

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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