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This paper presents the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of a semi-humanoid robotic system for autonomous multi-floor navigation. This robot, a Personal Robot 2 named Charlie, is capable of operating an elevator to travel between rooms located on separate floors. Our goal is to create a robotic assistant capable of locating points of interest, manipulating objects, and navigating...
The main task of rescue robots is to locate victims after a disaster such as an earthquake. For this task sensor data is used to localize the robots in their environment, build maps, and mark the victims in the maps. Usually, thermal and color cameras, monitored by a human operator, are used for the detection. Hyperspectral imaging techniques are today used for industrial tasks such as quality control,...
The presently available sewer inspection equipments based on CCD cameras have limitations and problems, as it requires the sewer lines to be drained. In this paper an automatic robotic sewer inspection equipment is proposed which uses ultrasonic sensors instead of CCD cameras. Hence it can work in water filled pipes without any need to drain it. Its working is controlled by embedded system. This can...
Non-facial and non-verbal methods of affective expression are essential for naturalistic social interaction in robots that are designed to be functional and lack expressive faces (appearance-constrained) such as those used in search and rescue, law enforcement, and military applications. This correspondence identifies five main methods of non-facial and non-verbal affective expression (body movement, posture, orientation, color, and sound...
Deep Green is a vision-based, intelligent robotic system that currently shoots pool at a better-than-amateur level, with the ultimate goal of challenging a proficient human opponent at a championship level. The system's robotic aspects rely primarily on computer vision. The system is centered on a 3-degree-of-freedom gantry robot mounted to the ceiling to avoid impeding human access to the table.
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