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Marine aquaculture is deeply rooted in Norwegian national economics and traditions, especially in the M⊘re og Romsdal region. This paper presents the development of a novel ROV for aquaculture inspection in marine application to provide first-hand information in fishery nets. The ROV is a part of so called “Sea Farm” project. When the ROV doesnot work, it will be carried by a floating platform. A...
Introducing robots into the operating theatre has become more popular in recent decades. Surgical manipulators have been developed to assist in surgeries like a human assistant to facilitate the surgical procedures. In this paper, we present an eye-controlled interface for the surgeon to control this kind of robot based on eye-tracking glasses. In our approach, we use the monitor for providing the...
As the elderly population grows rapidly, many social problems arise. In order to help enhance the lives of the elderly, many applications and devices have been developed. However, they are still limited to certain situations and lack some ability for remote assistance. Therefore, we present a projector-camera based assistance device for the elderly. It takes advantage of projection AR technologies...
Over the last few years, the number of remote patient monitoring (RPM) products and of videoconferencing systems has exploded. There is also a significant number of research initiatives addressing the use of service robots for assistance in daily living activities. From a technological standpoint, providing telehomecare services is certainly feasible. However, one technological barrier is to have...
In this paper, we propose distributed sensor networks (DSNs) capable of performing reliable recognition targeted at multiple humans in the indoor environments. DSNs are composed with combinations of perception sensor units using a RGB-D sensor and a pan-tilt-zoom camera, and a control board to acquire 3W results of who, where, and what information based on audio-visual perception modules. In addition,...
The Singapore Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge, dubbed as SAUVC, is an effort by the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Singapore Chapter to engage and expose the tertiary students to the challenges of AUV design. The programme was started in 2013 and was originally intended to create awareness among the local students on the importance of underwater robotics and its relevance to Singapore. However,...
Recently, lowering the costs of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and their operation has become a top priority. It causes the development of IT-based underwater robotics technologies, which have not been welcomed by the conservative market thus far. This paper proposes new concepts for a light, work-class ROV called the Smart ROV, intended for underwater construction work. The goals are to decrease...
Simultaneously controlling multiple robots requires multiple operators working together as a team. Determining how to construct the team to promote performance and reduce workload are critical questions that must be answered in these settings. To this end, we investigated the effect of team structure and scheduling notification on operators’ performance, subjective workload, work processes, and communication...
This letter correspondence exposes results of a simple and appropriate technique for tracking a moving person in a stream captured and stored in a suitable memory. This method is based on research of similar block only in the next frame or on the range of frames in the video sequence in question. The proposed process of tracking people in a single view from one static camera starts like any video...
This paper describes the development of an robotic helicopter for monitoring pollution and habitat in natural reserves. The particular environment under investigation is Tijuana River Estuary (TRE) south of the city of San Diego on the US-Mexico border. The ecology of TRE is briefly reviewed and the motivation for using an robotic helicopter is discussed. Next the application of aerial imaging to...
In this paper we propose a design using multiple remotely enhanced hand-computer interaction devices (REHCID) to design a real-time breathing detection system. Due to the restricted detection angle of our previously proposed system, unstable detection can be encountered when patients turn the body over. Our new REHCID placed on both sides of the bed allow the system to detect the patient's breathing...
Clips from an evaluation where participants, each paired with either a human or robot partner, were deployed to search a hallway for suspicious items, in a manner similar to tactics used by first responders handling bomb threats are presented. The teams used natural, verbal communication to collaborate, determine where hazards were located, and which items were suspicious. The video demonstrates that...
This paper proposes the constant execution time multiple human detection system. The human detection from video sequence is important in a monitoring camera system and a robot vision. It is important not to change execution time in human detection system regardless number of persons. In this paper, the feature amount of an image was calculated by using Cubic Higher-Order Local Auto Correlation (CHLAC)...
The study concerns a 2D safety vision system for human-robot collaborative work environments. The vision system is characteristic of having a freedom from structuring the environment by setting passive markings, i.e. neither painting on the floor nor hanging a camera up on a ceiling is necessary. To preserve safety states, we set the passive markings in the original image based upon Shannon information...
This paper recaps a recent study in the organization of interactive practices utilized by humans in card-game activities for the purposes of informing the design of human-robot interaction with autonomous social robotic systems. The research utilized an applied Conversation Analytic (CA) approach to focus on the practices by which humans identified and dealt with interactional trouble within the game...
Teleoperation is an important strategy for controlling outdoor mobile robots. It determines the reliability and the fields of the mobile robots. This paper introduced a type of teleoperation system for multiple mobile robots. Improved image radio system ensured the image transmission channels of coherent image clarity. Improved new data transmission system ensured that the data transmission is stable...
A mechatronic vision system for the automatic acquisition and the monitoring of the static and the moving objects is proposed. The system recognizes the existence and the motion of relatively small objects from the background in order to report motion parameters while automatically tracking the selected object. The system consists of several relatively independent subsystems cooperating together with...
This paper describes a novel approach that can be used to determine the focal object that a robot is looking at and introduces the unique robotic eye, AttractiveEye. Humans have the visual input mechanism but do not have the output mechanism concerning the visual signal except gestures. AttractiveEye can communicate information regarding the color of an object by changing its color to match that of...
Most teleoperation tasks involve controlling as well as monitoring from a remote location. This requires the eyes of the operator to be engaged in the monitoring task and the hands in the controlling task for the whole duration of the operation. Since the eyes are involved in the monitoring task anyway, inputs from their gaze can be used to aid in the controlling task to free the hands of the operator...
In this paper, we propose a guide system for daily life in semipublic spaces by adopting a gaze-communicative stuffed-toy robot and a gaze-interactive display board. The system provides naturally anthropomorphic guidance through a) gaze-communicative behaviors of the stuffed-toy robot (ldquojoint attentionrdquo and ldquoeye-contact reactionsrdquo) that virtually express its internal mind, b) voice...
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