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Recent research and development in industrial robotics aims at improving, flexibility, intelligence, and robustness of industrial robot application. There are various challenges associated with the development of a Random Bin Picking technology, including fast and accurate 3D imaging, a robust algorithm for object recognition, path-panning, gripper design. In this paper, a vision-guided-robotics (VGR)...
Recently autonomously driven vehicle technologies become the potential researches in order to increase road safety, driving comfort, fuel efficiency and so on. This study focuses on the fuel-saving issue in automatic vehicle within the scope of the decision maker layer. An intelligent economic assistance strategy (EAS) is explained and aims to reduce fuel cost when the vehicle is driving autonomously...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which powered by batteries are widely used in military, healthcare, and scientific environments. One important challenge for setting WSN is the energy problem. Power management is one of efficient solutions for such problem and must be taken into account at all levels of the WSN. However, the power management may be out of action when the WSN suffers malicious attacks...
Rapid pedestrian detection, distance cruise control, lane departure warning system, and reverse image system are widely used in automobile system, but the real-time detecting driver's drowsiness using the embedded system was not developed in the past. Recently, the biomedical signal processing have been using to solve biomechanical sciences problem, such as mind-brain imaging technology, magneto encephalogram,...
The non-destructive displaying defects of luminescence imaging is presented for inspecting silicon solar cell characterization of photovoltaic panel. The displaying system with photoluminescence can be applied to cleaning robotic device for tracing panel defects after cleaning photovoltaic panel arrays. A comparison method of the photoluminescence images with various illuminations has high sensitivity...
The conceptual design and proposed control methodology for a master-slave system that consists of an upper limb exoskeleton that acquires motion data to predict the motion of the user to control a robotic arm that mimics the motion of the user is presented. The exoskeleton master-slave unit in its conceptual design is also shown, with proposed electromyography (EMG) signals from sixteen muscles that...
Humanoid robot motion imitation is a problem of controlling robot balance with given body motion. It is a simple method to program robot motion because many robot motion editing tools do not consider balance control. Thus, this paper proposes a concept that a RGB-D camera such as Kinect is used to capture human motion and apply the captured motion on a humanoid robot. A genetic algorithm is used to...
The simulation of a miniature conceptual seven degree-of-freedom (DOF) robotic slave arm that is able to imitate the seven basic motions of a human arm is performed. The studies on the operating envelope are presented in this paper. The miniature robotic slave arm, a part of the master-slave arm system, is modeled in Solidworks to study the motion of the arm during operation. Simulation is done in...
This paper explores controller design and stability condition for a class of T-S uncertain time-delay fuzzy bilinear systems (TDFBSs). Utilizing the parallel distributed compensation (PDC) method, the fuzzy controller is designed which ensures the robust asymptotic stability of the T-S uncertain TDFBS. The stability conditions of the overall fuzzy control system are formulated by linear matrix inequalities...
A quality assurance approach to ensure proper camera zooming is proposed to replace existing manual process. Camera len-shake estimation is employed to measure camera quality during zooming. Typically, camera len-shake estimation has been performed by a human-operated procedure that requires repetitive operations in a time-consuming process. In this paper, a fast and efficient automatic estimation...
This paper presents a real-time automatic obstacle avoidance system using depth information and sonar data. The depth map is provided by Microsoft Kinect and sonar data are obtained from sonar sensors. With fusion of weighted depth information and sonar data, a set of intelligent fuzzy rules are designed to construct a safe path to avoid obstacles in indoor environment. According to the experimental...
Barcodes have been long used for data storage. Detecting and locating barcodes in images of complex background is an essential yet challenging step in the process of automatic barcode reading. This work proposed an algorithm that localizes and segments two-dimensional quick response (QR) barcodes. The localization involved a convolutional neural network that could detect partial QR barcodes. Majority...
Target tracking is an important application in Wireless Sensor Networks or Internet of Things. In most applications, a large number of inexpensive and stationary sensor nodes are deployed randomly in a field to cooperatively monitor the intrusive targets that are able to move around the field. To save energy depletion, sensor nodes are in sleep mode in most of the time while they should be waked up...
The main objective of this study is to establish a virtual prototyping model of a flexible four-bar mechanism and perform co-simulations using both mechanism model construction and control strategy development tools for the structure. Taking the four-bar mechanism as an example, a co-simulation control approach is introduced to study multi-body flexible dynamics. Lagrange approach is first implemented...
A design and analysis of an application to enhance microfluidic mixing through the use of electrodes which are controlled by the chaotic Chen-Lee system and its fractional-order system are presented in this project. At first, a microfluidic mixer with two pairs of electrodes on side walls is built. Varying electric fields are generated using the chaotic signals produced from the Chen-Lee system, resulting...
Passive walking robots are originally suggested to be walking down shallow slopes without any actuators and controllers. Most researches of passive bipedal robots have only be focused on walking on a straight line, although one of the important issues of walking robots is to move ahead for a target direction as they desired. The purpose of this paper is to develop direction control mechanism for an...
The Multi robotic system required behavioural control to perform successful navigation. The navigation of the multi robots is performed based on intensity signals from goal and both the robots are incorporated with IR seeker. The navigation starts at (S) and reaches to goal point (G) (IR Beacon). The obstacle avoidance mechanism is also performed by both leader and follower robots. Multi robots navigation...
This paper addresses distributed controllers to synchronize a network of nonholonomic mobile manipulators connecting over switching topologies. The issues of communication delays and possible disconnections between robots are taken into account. With Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, the networked robotic system is proved to be stable, and the convergence of the synchronization and tracking errors...
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