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Nowadays, a lot of IT personnel have psychological distress. Meanwhile, counselors to help them are lack in number. To solve the problem, we proposed a counseling agent (CA) called CRECA (context respectful counseling agent). CRECA listens to clients and promotes their reflection context respectfully namely in a context preserving way. This agent can be enhanced using a body language called "unazuki"...
In complex industrial environment, there are many interference objects when detect the objects on the production line. The interference objects are very similar with the objects to be sorted in terms of color, shape and size. The existing detection method like edge detection and object segmentation is difficult to recognize the objects when it comes to complex industrial environment. In the complex...
Simulation models which reproduce physical behavior have been proposed to make tuning robot motion for a task such as pick-and-place (P&P) easy. This paper presents a practical simulation method for P&P with vacuum gripper using suction-cups. The method is composed of two elements, a model to estimate the quality of P&P motion and a procedure for model identification. An advantage of this...
We propose a SNS Agency Robot that can be used for the interactive communication between elderly people and younger generation via existing Social Networking Service (SNS). This robot system has been implemented on a cloud service and a single board computer embedded in a human-type robot, which is equipped with a microphone, camera, speaker, sensors, and network access function, so that elderly people...
Bot Assistants can be an efficient and low-cost solution to Patient Care. One important aspect of Assistant Bots is successful Communication and Socialization with the patient. A new Conditional Entropy Retrieval Based model is proposed and also an Attitude Modeling based on Popitz Powers. The algorithm successfully retrieves the suitable answer with a high success rate in the patient-Bot Assistant...
This paper presents a solution for global optimized path planning with respect to finding the shortest distance for autonomous robotic system, particularly in two-dimensional space with a set of obstacles. The proposed approach is based on visibility-graph and the literature review of path planning is presented in details to explain why this approach is used. Through pros, cons, and complexity in...
The customer specific manufacturing of stators for electric motors is based on a time-consuming and expensive process chain. For this reason, the E|Drive-Center at the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) is researching on solutions centered on the flexible automation of these processes. In this paper a robotic-based...
Robotic development suffers from a long cognitive distance between the code and the resulting behavior. This is due to the several steps necessary to build robotic behaviors: writing the code, compiling it, deploying it and finally testing it on the robot. All this slows down development and can make experimentation prohibitively expensive. In contrast, Live Programming tightens the feedback loop,...
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...
History can serve as a connecting thread bonding students to their professional community and intellectual heritage. Many STEM disciplines, such as physics and biology, consistently integrate historic figures into the curriculum. Computer Science, on the other hand, often omits history from the instructional landscape. As a step to mitigate the situation, this work explores some of the historic design...
The study of Human-Robot interaction faces one of the biggest challenges in measuring the trustworthiness of the robots. The enhancement and the augmentation of the human capabilities using the human robot integration are dependent on the reliability and dependability of the robots. These factors become more significant when the participation of the robot is the human robot integration is active and...
In brachytherapy treatment of cancer, multiple radioactive seeds are implanted inside the cancer tumor by a surgical needle, and the locations of the seeds are dependent on the accurate placement of the needle at desired position inside the patient body. Therefore, needle placement is very important for the effectiveness of brachytherapy treatment. In this work, we propose design of Fuzzy-PID control...
This paper presents an overview of some the issues concerning Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS), mostly with respect to the current state-of-the-art in the concerned areas of technology, but also — albeit to a somewhat lesser degree — in a more general context that will, perhaps, not be so easily invalidated by technological progress. When all is considered, the paper attempts to answer the...
The purpose of this paper is to propose a method for simulation of a manipulator robot with six degrees of freedom. This method is oriented to solve the problem of absence of real robots which will operate it in validation of mathematical modeling and control of the nonlinear systems. It described in the first part the geometry of the robot manipulator, then the method is used to create this simulator...
An important task for training a robot (virtual or real) is to estimate state. State includes the state of the robot and its environment. Images from digital cameras are commonly used to monitor the robot due to the rich information, and low-cost hardware. Neural networks excel at catagorizing images, and should prove powerful to estimate the state of the robot from these images. There are many problems...
These days, some robots have emotional state (expression and recognition) to make Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Robot-Robot Interaction (RRI) better. In this article we analyze what it means for a robot to have emotion and distinguishing emotional state for communication from an emotional state as a mechanism for the organization of its behavior with humans and robots by convolutional neural network...
Reducing the grasp candidates for unknown object grasping while maintaining grasp stability is the goal of this paper. In this paper, we propose an efficient and straight forward unknown object grasping method by using concavities of the unknown objects to significantly reduce the grasp candidates. Shortest path concavity is first employed to work out the concavity value for every vertex of the unknown...
The current research trends of object grasping can be summarized as caging grasping and force closure grasping. The motivation of this paper is to combine the advantage of caging grasping and force closure grasping to enable under-actuated grippers like the Lacquey gripper and the parallel grippers like the PR2 gripper to quickly grasp the flat unknown objects. Inspired by the idea that caging grasping...
In this paper, we address the tracking control problems of a robotic system with uncertain dynamics. To cope with the problem of the unknown nonlinear function terms in the system and improve the robustness, adaptive fuzzy logic control is proposed for an approximation of uncertain parameters to achieve the control objectives. Furthermore, both non-constraint and output constraint are considered in...
This paper proposes a novel mechanical structure for power transmission lines inspection robot. The proposed structure composed of two identical lifting arms which are connected through middle girders with two rotational joints. Symmetric mechanical structure is adopted as a whole. There are four mainly units, including motion units, open-close units, pressing units and rotating joints. Walking and...
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