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For many applications in the operation of a spherical robot, it is necessary to use optical devices to observe, track and monitor the robot's surroundings and environment. Estimating the rotation of a multiple camera system is crucial and can also be complex and computationally expensive. Demonstrating the multiple camera system with a shared central point can be simpler and require less computation...
Due to advancement in minimization and mass-production, cameras are ubiquitously embedded in most of current mobile devices including phones, vehicles, robots, and augmentedreality displays. These mobile cameras are cheap and can gather in real-time large amounts of streaming data about the surrounding environment. Using an information-theoretic model of a streaming video captured by a mobile camera,...
This paper presents the development of an autonomous ball picking robot successfully completed as a one-semester mechatronics senior design project. It aimed to increase the capability of a 6-Axis industrial robot available at school. This project development was performed to demonstrate an autonomous capability of the robot to deal with a dynamic operational environment. The system developed features...
In this paper we explore the combination of a latest generation mobile device and a micro quadrotor platform to perform indoor autonomous navigation for the purpose of autonomous photography. We use the Yellowstone tablet from Google's Tango project [1], equipped with onboard, fully integrated sensing platform and with significant computational capability. To the best of our knowledge we are the first...
This paper presents a body gesture-based controlled mobile robot system, consisting of a DaNI robot, a Kinect sensor, and a Pan-Tilt camera. The Kinect sensor is used to track skeletons and joints of an operator for controlling the robot, while the pan-tilt camera is used to feed back live videos around surrounding information. The DaNI robot platform is a powerful tool for teaching robotics and mechatronics...
The project is to develop a fully autonomous navigation system along with mapping of the path. A robot which senses the edges of the object in the path and move without colliding the object. This application equipped with camera as main component, where captured image from camera transmitted to workstation or computer. The processing of image edge is done on a workstation or computer using MATLAB-2013a...
Implementation of a microcontroller-based robot positioning and control system is presented in the paper. The system is based on use of an analog grayscale camera with an infrared filter and LED lightning and transmitter. The use of this system makes it possible to implement an intelligent fuzzy logic controller that is used to control robot's movement on the table in the direction of the target with...
We developed a software system for operating the humanoid robot DRC-HUBO+ in disaster circumstances that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency suggested. This system was developed under the consideration of the stability of whole system, the systemic software environment for multiple developers, and the recovery routine when the system encounters a seriously abnormal situation. With these...
Agile robot locomotion on rough terrain is highly dependent on the ability to perceive the environment. In this paper, we show how the interaction between a reactive control framework and an online mapping system can significantly improve the trotting performance on irregular terrain. In particular, this new locomotion controller increases the stability of the robot and reduces frontal leg and shin...
Our faculty has recently managed to buy a Turtlebot 2 robot. The final aim of the project is to develop a low-cost home support robot that will be capable of executing simple tasks, such as locating and fetching known objects while avoiding obstacles that can be found in a typical home environment. This paper is about our first steps in the TekiControl project: it describes the basic principles and...
Annual increases in workstation capacity suggest that today between 5 and 15 times the computing power of 1994 should be available at roughly comparable costs. It there by becomes possible for a normal laboratory to provide at least approximately the computing power required for machine-vision-based control of robots. Experience with an experimental cell for automatic disassembly of used cars illustrates...
Recent research indicates that other factors in addition to appearance may contribute to the “Uncanny Valley” effect, and it is possible that “uncanny actions” such as “robot telepathy” - the nonverbal exchange of information among multiple robots - could be one such factor. We thus specifically examine whether humans are negatively affected by displays of nonverbal robot-robot communication through...
A system of Kinect-based people following for mobile robots is presented. The function of skeleton tracking of Kinect, a 3D somatosensory camera, is used to identify a specific person in the depth image. And then the position of the identified person in robot local coordinates is attained by using the ranging data obtained from the Kinect sensor. A rule-based control law is designed to keep the person...
Today, simple and accurate pose estimation is needed for small underwater robots to support and to replace submergence operation divers. Position and orientation estimation using luminous markers and the computer tracking library ARToolKit is one of the solutions for estimation, since it is fast enough for real time processing and is open sourced. Although, since it was made for augmented reality,...
This paper is concerned with the presentation of a mixed-reality operational environment for carrying out experiments in robotics. This set up was designed as an intermediate system between a real and a simulated scenario in order to work with real robots and to ease and simplify the configuration and modification of the rest of the elements of the experiments. The environment uses video projection...
Two humanoid robots are used to play table tennis with each other. For each humanoid robot, three cameras and a computer are equipped to form a stereovision system and a monocular vision system. The stereovision system consisting of two smart cameras and a computer measures the 3-dimensional position of the table tennis ball. It adopts parallel processing mode in order to realize hundred frames level...
A wireless tracking and controlling the mobile robot using video capturing feature (VCF) for unmanned applications is presented. It is a wheel-based and Radio frequency (RF wireless communicated) is used for communication between controller and the robot. The available motions of the robot are forward, backward, right, left and the combination of these movements. Besides, a camera is built in the...
With the research and development of chess robot and machine vision, chess robot with visual function has recently received an increasing interest in the community. This paper introduces the chess system of dual-robot coordination based on vision and the process of visual system structure, gives the coordinates translation from computer and image coordinates to actual coordinates. And in the process...
This study focuses on the design of an intelligent machine vision and sorting system. The vision system uses an artificial neural network trained to perform recognition. A Bluetooth communication link facilitates communication between the intelligent recognition system and a robot control computer. Image feature vectors are transmitted to the remote control computer for recognition and a robot control...
Augmented reality technology is useful for interaction with robotic devices. A user can see the status of and direct orders to robots in the actual operating environment rather than on a remote computer console. A system is presented where fiducial markers are used for the dual purpose of reading the position of a multi-robot system and for user interaction using augmented reality. A user can observe,...
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