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This demo presents a suite of serious Kinectâ„¢ - based games for rehabilitation. The game embodies three metaphors and corresponding game mechanics, for three exercise movements: elbow flexion and extension (fisherman), shoulder abduction and adduction (moon spaceship), and knee flexion and extension ...
To find acoustic signature of diver equipped with atmospheric diving suit (ADS), a logarithmic normalized frequency-domain multi-band matched-filter (LNMF) algorithm is presented, which can mitigate the influence of the background noise and short-duration transient interference. Based on experimental ...
Cognitive signal processing has been intensively studied over the past years. Nevertheless, cognitive sonar systems only draw little attention in the research community. In this paper the signal processing of a cognitive sonar system for diver detection is shown in detail. It is inspired by the target-detection ...
Divers have to perform technical underwater tasks in dangerous and unstructured environments. To reduce a diver's workload and improve overall safety, an underwater robotic assistant (UWRA) could be deployed with the diver. The UWRA could assist the diver in navigation, quickly ferry tools from the ...
Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for close-proximity operations (e.g., close to the seafloor, a vessel, or divers) requires robust, precise vehicle control. When performing joint human-robot operations, a Robotic Diver Assistant can perform tasks such as tool carrying, worksite illumination, ...
When marine disasters occur, it is sometimes necessary for search and rescue dive teams to begin rescue and recovery efforts, even before a complete assessment of the underwater safety situation can be conducted. This makes the job of the Coast Guard personnel in charge of these types of operations ...
The supraneural body was identified in the adult lamprey, and its secretions induced the death of a variety of tumor cells but had no effect on normal cells. The cell secretions from different lamprey tissues were separated, and these secretions killed human tumor cells to varying degrees. The cell ...
This paper conveys the findings of the first phase of a longitudinal study into climate change adaptation in Atlantic Canada. Men and women from 10 coastal communities in three provinces (Quebec, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) were interviewed to better understand how both sexes perceived ...
Processing marine-mammal signals for species classification and monitoring of endangered marine mammals are problems that have recently attracted attention in the scientific literature. Currently, the detection of signals of interest is typically accomplished through a combination of visual inspection ...
We developed a novel underwater atomic force microscopy (UAFM) system that is mountable on underwater vehicles or submersible seafloor platforms. This system is intended for in situ observation of microorganisms and microparticulates suspended and dispersed in deepwater near hydrothermally active features, ...
Nearshore sea surface temperatures show both strong seasonal trends and rapid changes associated with local weather events. As a result, commercial fishing operations search and rescue services, and recreational users have a very limited capability to predict expected sea surface temperatures for any ...
This paper describes research to determine the effectiveness of forward-looking sonar as a means to safely navigate vessels in frontiers such as the Arctic and other regions that may be lacking recent or comprehensive hydrographic survey. Key elements of this investigation include the range at which ...
Competitive enterprises are facing increasing challenges to balance business performance and economic gains with environmental and social issues. In an age of increasing regulatory legislation for energy conservation and waste management, consumer and civil society pressures, sustainability through ...
We present in this paper the development of an easy-to-adapt architecture for radio based, indoor geolocation; and the new opportunities it brings for game design. The weak precision of such systems, usually regarded as a problem, is considered here as a source of innovation for the design of pervasive ...
Nationally and internationally as a declining population, depending on the population of the city increasing influx Book mountainous and island regions have a situation where the aging of the population is highly increased. Particularly in the case of furniture in mind the ARGUENON due to variations ...
In this paper, a novel robot system for a jellyfish reconnaissance and removal using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is introduced. In recent years, overpopulated jellyfish are threatening ocean ecosystem as well as damaging to ocean-related industries such as fishery, ...
Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) is currently supporting a multiscale, multi-resolution modeling subsystem for the US Southeast coastal waters to deliver model data and products for coastal resource and emergency response managers and other users. The models that are ...
Eularian and lagrangian observations collected through the Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System (CARICOOS) and satellite imagery suggest that the interaction between mesoscale eddies (MSEs) and littoral waters may be significant in the southern coast of Puerto Rico (northern Caribbean Sea), where ...
Discussions surrounding the development of an Ocean Enterprise have continued since the 1980s. While interest and engagement in ocean science and application have increased over the years-particularly as technologies have advanced- actual development of the Ocean Enterprise has not advanced significantly. ...
Seagliders are a type of propeller-less AUV that glide through the water by changing their buoyancy. They have become mainstream collectors of standard oceanographic data (conductivity, temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter) and are increasingly used as trucks to carry ...