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This paper focuses on the key role played by the adoption of a framework in teaching robotics with a computer science approach in the master in Computer Engineering. The framework adopted is the Robot Operating System (ROS), which is becoming a standard de facto inside the robotics community. The educational activities proposed in this paper are based on a constructionist approach. The Mindstorms...
This paper describes our experience with introducing modern robotics through Robot Operating System. ROS framework allows rapid robot prototyping and gives access to many state-of-the-art robotic solutions. It is however, software oriented and requires its users to understand well software development ideas and methods. While teaching undergraduate students ROS, we came up with some solutions how...
This article describes interactive methods that can ease difficult manipulation tasks in Search & Rescue operations. We discuss the requirements that are necessary for a telemanipulation system to be successfully used. These include not just correctness of generated motion but also ergonomy, mobility and interactivity of the operator’s interface. We show that grippers with one or more degrees...
The paper presents a set of soŌware tools dedicated to support mobile robot navigaƟon. The tools are used to process an image from a depth sensor. They are implemented in ROS framework and they are compaƟble with standard ROS navigaƟon packages. The soŌware is released with an open source licence. First of the tools converts a 3D depth image to a 2D scan in polar coordinates. It provides projecƟon...
Robotics has accomplished its greatest triumph to date in the world of industrial manufacturing and academia. This work aims to perform path planning using a KUKA (LWR/ LBR 4+) robot platform as well as a simulator to grasp the object. This whole implementation will be carried out in a ROS environment with Ubuntu (Linux) as an operating platform. The KUKA (LWR/ LBR 4+) has 7 degrees of freedom with...
In this paper, a low cost mobile robot with a modular design that permits the easy change of the number of wheels is considered for generation of 3D digital maps by using ROS tools and a 3D light detection and distance measurement (LiDAR) sensor. The modular robot is thought for travelling through several environments with saving the energy by changing the number and arrangement of the wheels according...
This paper presents the development of an automated guided vehicle with omni-wheels for autonomous navigation under a robot operating system framework. Specifically, a laser rangefinder-constructed two-dimensional environment map is integrated with a three-dimensional point cloud map to achieve real-time robot positioning, using the oriented features from accelerated segment testing and a rotated...
The development of an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) with an eye-in-hand robot arm atop for depressing elevator button is proposed. The AMR can construct maps and perform localization using the ORB-SLAM algorithm (the Oriented FAST [Features from Accelerated Segment Test] and Rotated BRIEF [Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features] feature detector-Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). It is...
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