Publications by authors named "Lizhe Qi"

In traditional cardiac ultrasound diagnostics, the process of planning scanning paths and adjusting the ultrasound window relies solely on the experience and intuition of the physician, a method that not only affects the efficiency and quality of cardiac imaging but also increases the workload for physicians. To overcome these challenges, this study introduces a robotic system designed for autonomous cardiac ultrasound scanning, with the goal of advancing both the degree of automation and the quality of imaging in cardiac ultrasound examinations. The system achieves autonomous functionality through two key stages: initially, in the autonomous path planning stage, it utilizes a camera posture adjustment method based on the human body's central region and its planar normal vectors to achieve automatic adjustment of the camera's positioning angle; precise segmentation of the human body point cloud is accomplished through efficient point cloud processing techniques, and precise localization of the region of interest (ROI) based on keypoints of the human body.

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Welding as an industrial tailor is key to intelligent manufacturing technology. With the development of robots and digital manufacturing technology, autonomous programming intelligent welding robots have emerged. The seam tracking system based on active vision is widely used because of its high precision and obvious characteristics.

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From source to target, point cloud registration solves for a rigid body transformation that aligns the two point clouds. IterativeClosest Point (ICP) and other traditional algorithms require a long registration time and are prone to fall into local optima. Learning-based algorithms such as Deep ClosestPoint (DCP) perform better than those traditional algorithms and escape from local optimality.

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Article Synopsis
  • - The paper introduces a self-locking soft robot that mimics the human hand's ability to change finger stiffness for grasping various objects, using particle and fiber jamming techniques to achieve a wide range of stiffness.
  • - A mathematical model is developed to determine when the robot can self-lock and how much it can flex under external force, with experimental results showing a maximum stiffness of 1223.58 N*m.
  • - The research also explores the robot's adaptability to different shapes through experiments, establishing a new index for evaluating the adaptability of soft continuum robots, with the prototype achieving a bending angle of up to 108°.
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