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Human-robot teams can incorporate advanced technology such as distributed mobile sensor networks, integrated communications, visualization technology, and other means to acquire and assess information. These factors can greatly affect mission effectiveness, safety, and survivability, by providing critical information and suggesting courses of action. However, information overload can result. Tactical...
Adaptive, model-free control of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is a lack in the field of diabetes control, since, most of the applied control strategies are model-based ones. The main problem is that difficult to formulate exact mathematical models to replicate the physiological processes, not just because of their behavior, rather then these processes are changing patient-by-patient. Furthermore,...
This paper presents a novel approach to control or navigate mobile platforms in a GPS denied environment, using natural human gestures. Gesture based interfaces and visual computing techniques are used to develop systems that can be used in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation using body postures. This approach will easily marginalize the complexity in Human-Computer interaction (HCI), making...
Interest points matching for aerial visual odometry using quadrotor MAV is tackled in this work. First, a set of sparse feature points are extracted using ORB detector. These are then grouped using Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) fields by finding points of high symmetry within the image. A robust matching strategy is introduced to improve the motion estimation. In order to validate ORB features matches,...
The recognition of places that have already been visited is a fundamental requirement for a mobile robot. This particularly concerns the detection of loop closures while mapping environments as well as the global localization w.r.t. to a prior map. This paper introduces a novel solution to place recognition with 2D LIDAR scans. Existing approaches utilize descriptors covering the local appearance...
This paper proposes a cheap image processing method for visual compass in the robot soccer context. An offline map is constructed by using color transition histogram features. When a feature is extracted, we calculate maximum likelihood orientation of that feature over the pre-calculated map. This instantaneous orientation information updates orientation belief with given mixing constant. We presented...
In this study, it is aimed to follow a visual route by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The recognition of the predetermined line by using image processing algorithms and the process of following the route by using the method of Tangent Vector Field Guidance (TVFG) have been performed in indoor and outdoor experiments. UAV s following the correct route has been ensured by calculating the deflection...
In this work, we propose haptic-based bilateral tele-operation for quad-rotor vehicles by using Internet communication infrastructure. The idea is to introduce shared autonomy to increase remote operation and manipulation capacity of the vehicle in uncertain flying environments. The design couples ground and remote sites by position and velocity signals of the master haptic and slave quad-rotor vehicle...
This paper introduces a method for optimizing students' workload by means of a so called ECTS-barometer. This barometer was developed on the basis of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System in order to capture learning activities of students on a weekly basis. The main principles of this barometer are presented on an example in the Master degree programme Mechatronics/Robotics at the...
An effective program comprehension is reached when it is possible to view and relate what happens when the program is executed, synchronized with its effects in the real world concepts. This enables the interconnection of program's meaning at both problem and program domains. To sustain this statement we need (i) to develop a tool which provides and synchronizes views at both domains, and (ii) to...
Traditionally, the search region is based one pipolar line and the maximum disparity constraints in area-based stereo correspondence methods. The search region is invariable with this method. The reduction of search region can increase the performance of the matching process, in the context of the execution time and accuracy. According to disparity gradient theory, the paper presents a fast area-based...
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