Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice

• Education.- Emergent Behaviour Real-time Programming of a Six-Legged Omni-Directional Mobile Robot Planning of Viennese Waltz Behaviour.- The Hong Kong Underwater Robot Challenge.- Dynamics and Control of a VTOL Quad-Thrust Aerial Robot.- Project-oriented Low Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Servo-visual Control for Mechatronics Curricula.- Coordination in Mechatronic Engineering Work.- Vision Techniques.- A Vision System for Depth Perception that Uses Inertial Sensing and Motion Parallax.- Rate Shape Identification Based on Particle Swarm Optimization.- Advanced 3D Imaging Technology for Autonomous Manufacturing Systems.- Vision Based Person Tracking and Following in Unstructured Environments.- Simple, Robust and Accurate Head-Pose Tracking Using a Single Camera.- Vision Applications.- Machine Vision for Beer Keg Asset Management.- Millimetre Wave Radar Visualisation System: Practical Approach to Transforming Mining Operations.- An Underwater Camera and Instrumentation System for Monitoring the Undersea Environment.- Visual Position Estimation for Automatic Landing of a Tail-Sitter Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle.- Minutiae-based Fingerprint Alignment Using Phase Correlation.- Robotic Techniques.- A Snake-like Robot for Inspection Tasks.- Modelling Pneumatic Muscles as Hydraulic Muscles for Use as an Underwater Actuator.- Automated Tactile Sensory Perception of Contact Using the Distributive Approach.- Blind Search Inverse Kinematics for Controlling All Types of Serial-link Robot Arms.- Medical Applications.- Distributive Tactile Sensing Applied to Discriminate Contact and Motion of a Flexible Digit in Invasive Clinical Environments.- Intelligent Approach to Cordblood Collection.- An Autonomous Surgical Robot Applied in Practice.- Development of an Intelligent Physiotherapy System.- Visual Prostheses for the Blind: A Framework for Information Presentation.- Computer-based Method of Determining the Path of a HIFU Beam Through Tissue Layers from Medical Images to Improve Cancer Treatment.- Agricultural Applications.- On-the-go Machine Vision Sensing of Cotton Plant Geometric Parameters: First Results.- Robotics for Agricultural Systems.- More Machine Vision Applications in the NCEA.

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