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In order to improve the production efficiency and management decision-making capability of coating line for large hp wheeled tractor chassis, RFID technology was introduced to MES system, and then a management and control integration systems of this production line was studied and developed. Based on the practical analysis of production field, the seamless connection between the management layer (top-layer)...
Robotic simulators, frameworks, and related toolkits are very important in today's research community. The need to accurately simulate movements, algorithms, and interactions with the real world is quickly becoming a major research focus as humans and robots interact in more situations and differently than ever before. This is a survey of popular robotics simulators and some of the main frameworks...
The designation of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory enhances the ability to use the facility for educational objectives. The MIT Space Systems Laboratory and Aurora Flight Sciences started the Zero Robotics program to enable High School students to participate directly in the science conducted aboard the ISS. The program, based on the successful history of the FIRST Robotics...
This article describes the initial design of a biomimetic cuttlefish robot. The robot has a similar streamlined shape as cuttlefish, propelled by the complex of the biomimetic undulatory level pectoral fin and the water-jetting. Firstly, the morphology and swimming theory of cuttlefish is analyzed. Secondly, the overall structure of the biomimetic cuttlefish robot is designed and the three-dimensional...
In this paper, a robot simulation system which can accomplish multi-task planning is proposed. The system is based on Simbad - an autonomous robot simulation package. Compared to Simbad, our system can establishes the environment model, and enables robots to make proper planning under uncertainties. The main contributions of this paper are 1) integrating the “Environment Memory Base” in the simulation...
Machine learning is an important issue to researchers for several years. Reinforcement learning is a type of unsupervised learning which uses state-action combinations and rewards to interact with the environment. Q-learning a further, sub-division of reinforcement learning is now-a-days well-accepted algorithm for robots (machine) learning. However human beings learn in different ways. One of such...
In this paper, we propose a two-modes autonomous controller for a snake-like robot to adapt to the environments with different friction coefficients. According to the cyclic 3-stages experiential learning theory, the controller integrates an open-form searching method and a closed-form searching method, which correspond to the two modes of the controller respectively. We introduce a mechanism to remember...
Monitoring robot or system condition while they in operation is very important, since we do not know what is happen with our robot or our system due to far place, human limitation, our mobile activities, and etc. Nowadays we called this a Telemetry Technology. In this paper, we suggest a way to understanding Telemetry technology for education, especially on robotics field with respect to realtime...
In this paper, we apply a state-based computational model called Sum automaton to explore and model-check a given set of robotic tasks. Robotic processes often run concurrently and communicate with each other to accomplish a common goal. We begin from a specification of a set of robotic tasks in the form of communicating finite state machines. As opposed to the traditional product automaton, built...
We have developed image analysis methods to analyse the morphology of the budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) cell. Experiments were performed on four deletant strains: ΔYLR371w, ΔYDR349c, ΔYLR192c, and ΔYDR414c. Our results show that our image analysis software provides an efficient way to automatically obtain quantitative morphology features of yeast cells. Our research show significant differences...
Several real world applications of humanoids in general will require continuous service over a long time period. A humanoid robot operating in different environments over a long period of time means that A) there will be a lot of variation in the speech it has to ground semantically and B) it has to know when a conversation is of interest in order to respond. Detailed natural speech understanding...
Theremin is an electronic musical instrument considered to be the most difficult to play which requires the player's hands to have high precision and stability as any position change within proximity of the instrument's antennae can make a difference to the pitch or volume. In a different direction to previous developments of Theremin playing robots, we propose a Humanoid Thereminist System that goes...
Mission planning for collaborative Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS:s) is a complex topic which involves trade-offs between the degree of centralization or decentralization required, the degree of abstraction in which plans are generated, and the degree to which such plans are distributed among participating UAS:s. In realistic environments such as those found in natural and man-made catastrophes where...
The reproduction of the movements of a ship by automated platforms, without the use of sensors providing exact data related to the numeric variables involved, is a non-trivial matter. The creation of an artificial vision system that can follow the cadence of said ship, in six axes of freedom, is the goal of this research. Considering that a real time response is a requisite in this case, it was decided...
Knowing precisely where objects are located enables a robot to perform its tasks both more efficiently and more reliably. To acquire the respective knowledge and to effectively use it as a resource, a robot has to go through the world with “open eyes”. Specifically, it has to become environment-aware by keeping track of where objects of interest are located and explicitly represent their geometrical...
This paper develops the kinematic, dynamic and contact models of a three-fingered robotic hand (BarrettHand) in order to obtain a complete description of the system which is required for manipulation tasks. These models do not only take into account the mechanical coupling and the breakaway mechanism of the under-actuated robotic hand but they also obtain the force transmission from the hand to objects,...
One major problem in the development of robotic swarms is the slow process of testing. Testing different algorithms or variations of a single one using physical robots requires reprogramming every robot in the swarm before every run. Hence, the speed at which a robotic swarm can be tested is highly dependent on the time taken to reprogram the entire swarm and the physical speed at which the swarm...
The concept of e-learning has become popular in recent years as higher education institutions have been introducing it to support the conventional teaching approach. However, the implementation of e-learning in technical disciplines (e.g. Robotics and Simulation) is still far behind the rapid growth of practice in narrative disciplines (e.g. Database and Theory of Computer Science). The perception...
This paper presents an interactive robotics modeling and simulation system based on the MSRS (Microsoft Robotics Studio), called iRMSS (Interactive Robotics Modeling & Simulation System). iRMSS is composed of two sub systems. One is the 3D robotics modeling sub-system that facilitates the creation of segment-joint model and physical model for robots. The other is the interactive robotics simulation...
In this paper an event-based distributed real-time communication architecture for multi-agent systems is presented. The architecture was designed regarding the needs of hardware-based multi-agent systems, especially robotic systems. This includes in particular fast and reliable transportation of messages in unstable wireless networks. Furthermore the architecture is usable for different agent-based...
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