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This video presents the evolution of the robotic hands, called UB Hands (University of Bologna Hands), developed at the Laboratory of Automation and Robotics of the University of Bologna during more than 25 years of research in this field. Starting from the UB Hand I, the first robot hand prototype developed in our labs, the different design solutions and philosophies that have been followed toward...
This paper describes the fuzzy logic control of motion control of mobile robot on rough terrain. The controller employed for this purpose is a two output and single output system. The input to the controller are slope of the terrain and terrain type. The output from the controller is the speed commands for the driving wheels. The controller is designed in Matlab. We have simulated the control process.
In this paper we briefly describe teaming heuristics as they are applied to human-human teams, and demonstrate their adaptability to human-robot (HR) teams. We discuss a framework developed from Salas's models on teamwork and team training. As HRI technology moves from teleoperative control methods to teamwork with intelligent robots, it is pertinent to properly integrate knowledge about teams into...
Having human access path installed, autonomous mobile systems play a crucial role in expanding the horizon of perception beyond physical-geometric perspective. In this essay, the expansion of human's substantial mobility inscribed in the two decades of RO-MAN chronicle is overviewed. Through intensive investigation under in depth interdependence of ROMAN related fields, intelligent robots can be delegated...
Over the past decade, natural and human-induced disasters have claimed millions of lives. Intelligent robots equipped with advanced sensors and integrating wireless networks are attracting attention from researchers and rescuers all around the world. This paper is an application of the Wireless Sensor Network to disaster management. The wireless sensor network consists of two fixed nodes and moving...
The relationship between philosophy and computer engineering is considered, with particular emphasis upon the design of artificial moral agents. Top-down vs. bottom-up approaches to ethical behavior are discussed, followed by an overview of some of the ways in which traditional ethics has informed robotics. Two macro-trends are then identified, one involving the evolution of moral consciousness (conscience)...
An important challenge in robotic research is learning and reasoning about different manipulation tasks from scene observations. In this paper we present a probabilistic model capable of modeling several different types of input sources within the same model. Our model is capable to infer the task using only partial observations. Further, our framework allows the robot, given partial knowledge of...
Thinking Head Framework is the software architecture developed as part of a multidisciplinary research project 'Thinking Head' aimed at building and evaluating intelligent agents for human machine interaction. Firstly, the framework was designed to make the software accessible to non expert users as in the case of this project where large number of users come from a non-software engineering background...
This paper discusses challenges of rescue robotics for the future research and development on the basis of the state of art of robotics to respond earthquakes and CBRNE (chemical/ biological/radiological/nuclear/explosives) disasters. The result of analysis showed that intelligence of mobility and execution performance, support for teleoperation, stable telecommunications, localization and mapping,...
In this paper, we propose the robust robot's attention for human based on the multi-modal sensor and robot behavior. All of the robot components for attention are operating on the intelligent robot software architecture. Human search collect the human information from the sensing information for vision and voice in various illumination change and dynamic environments. And human tracker follows the...
A natural spoken dialogue system for humanoid robot is proposed in this paper. This system is developed for a humanoid robot which designed to help human to perform several different types of daily tasks on office environment. In this system, all the tasks that the humanoid robot could perform are classified into four types, namely object delivering, document copying, water pouring and room cleaning...
Social robots that provide services to humans in real environments have been developed in recent years. Such a robot should appropriately recognize its users' orders through human-like communications because of user-friendliness. However, their styles of communicating are too diverse to achieve this goal. If the robot could shape their styles, its recognition ability would be improved. An entrainment,...
This paper proposes an approach to hierarchy formation of human behaviors, extraction of the behavioral transitions, and their application to prediction and automatic generation of behaviors. Human demonstrator motion patterns are stored as motion symbols, which abstract the motion data by using Hidden Markov Models. The stored motion patterns are organized into a hierarchical tree structure, which...
Since 2007, our research is related to the development of an anthropomorphic saxophonist robot, which it has been designed to imitate the saxophonist playing by mechanically reproducing the organs involved for playing a saxophone. Our research aims in understanding the motor control from an engineering point of view and enabling the communication. In a previous paper, the Waseda Saxophone Robot No...
As an important approach to ensure safety and naturalness, compliant motion is already implemented in large-size robots, but it is still an undeveloped area in child-oriented robots as it calls for a lightweight and compact solution compared with large-size robots. In this paper, we proposed the design of a social robot which aims at conducting safe and playful Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), especially...
In this paper, we propose a method to achieve temporal scaling of leg motions as a fundamental technique for a music feedback system of a dancing humanoid robot. We asked dancers to perform dance motion at normal musical tempo and faster musical tempos and observed how dancers modified performance for given musical tempos. The obtained insights from the observation are 1) a dancer needs to preserve...
In this paper, we study the stability region for a set of intelligent controllers developed by learning human expert control skills using support vector machines (SVMs). Based on the discrete-time system Lyapunov theory, a Chebychev points based estimation approach is proposed to evaluate the stability region, a key property of this set of SVM-based human learning controllers. One of such learning...
This paper presents an embeddable knowledge processing framework, along with a common-sense ontology, designed for robotics. We believe that a direct and explicit integration of cognition is a compulsory step to enable human-robots interaction in semantic-rich human environments like our houses. The OpenRobots Ontology (ORO) kernel allows to turn previously acquired symbols into concepts linked to...
Household robots are becoming commonplace. The application of social cues, such as emotion, has the potential to make such robots easier to use and understand. However, it remains unclear how household robots can or should display emotion, and what considerations should be given to emotive behavior regarding the expected set of contexts in which the robot will operate. In this paper, we report the...
Lip synchronization is one of the most important technologies in the field of intelligent robotics. The natural and precise lip synchronization of robots could contribute to the improvement of human robot interaction and communication. In this paper, we designed a lip synchronization system for intelligent face robots using a text-to-speech system and robot mouth module. By applying several suggested...
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