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This paper describes a trajectory planning algorithm for mobile robot navigation in crowded environments; the aim is to solve the problem of planning a valid path through moving people.
In order to solve mobile manipulation problems, the efficient combination of task and motion planning is usually required. Moreover, the incorporation of physics-based information has recently been taken into account in order to plan the tasks in a more realistic way. In the present paper, a task and motion planning framework is proposed based on a modified version of the Fast-Forward task planner...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are currently investigated as an important sub-domain of robotics, a fast growing and truly multidisciplinary research field. UAVs are increasingly deployed in real-world settings for missions in dangerous environments or in environments which are challenging to access. Combined with autonomous flying capabilities, many new possibilities, but also challenges, open up. To overcome...
Mobile robots are advanced systems that often need to operate in unstructured environments, which increases software complexity. Many components are key to the overall reliability and safety of a robot, yet reducing the risk of errors by making the software resilient is both complicated and expensive. A commercially successful robot has to remain safe while providing as much as possible from the functionality...
Nowadays industrial production is undergoing a continuous increase in flexibility requirements and production facilities have to cope with products diversities, high levels of uncertainties and frequent changes in production cycles. Robotic cells are an interesting solution for achieving the high level of flexibility essential for small batch production and customization, but they have to deal with...
Managing variations of product portfolios and small lot sizes constitute some of the most important challenges in industrial automation today. Ever shorter development cycles require new tools to integrate all relevant corporate divisions from product design to production planning and quality control. In this paper we describe a formal modeling approach that allows to encapsulate properties of product...
Automated manufacturing systems are becoming increasingly flexible in order to support a growing number of different products and product variations, as well as shortening lot sizes and product life cycles. Many manufacturing resource are already multi-purpose. But they are integrated in an automation infrastructure that may require significant effort to adapt. In this contribution, we present a system...
Nowadays, crucial parts of modern Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) are active control and monitoring functions. Many of research have been conducted to investigate the support of location-based services (LBS) for individuals in the BACS. Since microlocation technology could be used to enable reliable and precise indoor positioning and navigation, an indoor positioning system (IPS) has...
Impact and its measure of outcome is a given performance indicator within academia. Impact metrics and the associated understanding play a large part of how academic research is judged and ultimately funded. Natural progression of successful scientific research into industry is now an essential tool for academia. This paper describes what began over ten years ago as a concept to automate a bespoke...
Blasting and painting operations involve high consumption of materials such as blasting grits and paint. In Singapore, most of the ship hull cleaning and blasting process are manual operations in the shipyard environment. The shipyard workers need to use fork lifts or cherry pickers, which cause several problems such as low efficiency, harmful pollution to operators' health, and inconsistent blasting...
Pipelines have been used to convey products such as oil, gas, chemicals and water. It means that problems with pipelines would indicate money waste and environment damages. To avoid those problems, inspections are realised periodically. The technology improvement has made possible employing robots and mobile platforms to inspect pipes. The focus of this work is to implement a strategy to acquire the...
Based at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. From 2025, the LHC will be upgraded to allow it to achieve a factor of 10 higher luminosity, which increases the rate of collisions, essential for probing new physics phenomena in the future. The route to high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) involves...
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