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Robotic systems are widely used in the manufacturing industries to improve high quality products. When a fault occurs in manipulator, the faulty robot operates in abnormal condition, which causes insecurity for devices and human. In general, the dynamic of residual vector consists of fault information. In order to evaluate the residual vector, data-driven technique based on statistical theory is used...
In this paper, we consider a surveillance scenario where a team of sensing robots survey a sensitive area and transmit the monitored data to a remote base station through a mobile relay. In this scenario, it is challenging to autonomously adjust the position of the mobile relay for the sake of minimizing the total communication-motion energy consumption of the system, while maintaining the communication...
This paper describes a project to enhance a commonly used educational robot, the Parallax Scribbler 2 (S2), by adding more sensor capabilities and making it truly autonomous. The S2 is a popular platform in high school and college robotics courses yet it lacks significant capacity that is compensated by often pairing it with Fluke 2, an interface/controller card developed by a third party group. However,...
Path planning for robots with obstacles is an important problem and have not been resolved well yet. An extended Support Vector Machine(SVM)-based path planning method(which is named the multi-constraints SVM method in this paper) was proposed in previous work. However, no analysis was provided for the planned paths. So, an detailed analysis of the paths based on the method above will be given in...
This paper presents real time issues faced in the practical implementation of the zigbee based battery status monitoring and charge sharing system. For experimental evaluation four autonomous wheeled robots or nodes were designed. All these nodes were integrated with battery status indicators, Zigbee transceiver modules and obstacle detection sensors for collision avoidance. Only two robots were fitted...
Forests are important part of the ecosystem and play a significant role to preserve and maintain the environment. The main hazard is the forest fires because its consequences are terrible in nature. Therefore, there is a need to detect fire and extinguish before it spreads to destroy the resources. For this purpose, Forest Fire Detection and Extinguishing Algorithm (FFDEA) using Wireless Sensor and...
The use of robots as an educational tool is particularly interesting because of their potential to support collaboration, their capability to trigger physical activity and their inherent attractiveness. However, despite their many benefits, few works have considered the use of robots with children aged under 6 years and those which are targeted at these very young children do not fully exploit the...
Using robots for cleaning surface, glass, rooms etc. are not new and are in the field of research for more than a decade. But when it comes to stair case cleaning, we see that the research area is only few years old. The main reason is the enormous difference is design mechanism when it comes to vertical climbing robots compared to the robots that move over surface. These robots function in 3-D space...
The purpose of the proposed system is to make the transportation of material from storage area to the destination Area with the use of robots. The system consists of multiple robots (two or more) which are going to do the task under the given environment with intercommunication between the robots and main system. The approach is decentralized i.e. there is no need to have human (central) control over...
Robots that facilitate touch by children have special requirements in terms of safety and robustness, but little is known about how and when children actually use touch with robots. Tools and techniques are required to sense the variety of children's touch and to interpret the volumes of data generated. This explorative user study investigated children's patterns of touch during game play with a robot...
An experiment was conducted using a robot to investigate the effectiveness of four methods for detecting cyber attacks and analyzing robot failures. Cyber attacks were implemented on three robots of the same make and model through their wireless control mechanisms. Analysis of experimental data indicates the differences in attack detection effectiveness across the detection methods. A method that...
While LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robots and Arduino boards are widely used today in high school education to stimulate pupils' interest for technologyrelated subjects or to introduce beginner computer science students to programming, it is interesting how these tools may be successfully used also in programming education of technology-agnostic noncomputer science majors. A possible lack of motivation as well...
We present a Cooperative Virtual Force Robot Deployment (COVER) technique. Virtual force (VF) technique appears as one of the prominent approaches to perform multi-robot deployment autonomously. However, most of the existing VF based approaches lack purposeful deployment. Our approach modifies the original VF approach to overcome this problem and considers the mission requirements such as the number...
Despite the rapid advances in technology relatively few are focused on special education, or the education for people with profound and multiple disabilities. One of the main causes for this to happen is that there is little incentive for companies to design and manufacture technology for a target group of customers without major buying power, or one that makes up a relatively small proportion of...
In this paper we detail the implementation of a Differential GPS system using only low-cost GPS receivers. The nature of the errors generated by low-cost modules is investigated and contrasted against typical error models of traditional, commercial DGPS systems. It is found that the error profile unique to low-cost GPS modules leads to a system that offers particular advantage in the horizontal plane...
In the context of multi agent robot path planning, behavioral control exhibits its importance. This paper proposes the new scheme and hardware design for key elements of behavioral control between two mobile robots. Among two robots one is considered as the leader and other as follower. Leader (IR seeker) plans the path, it starts at S and reaches the Goal (G) based on the Intensity which is transmitted...
In this paper we present the new version of the LSMaker Robot, an educational platform designed by La Salle — Ramon Llull University to be used as facilitator of acquisition of concepts in all engineering curricula and, at the same time, a new companion as a robotic classmate. The new version of the LSMaker, named LSMaker EV1, changes from a full customized to an open source Arduino-based hardware...
This paper describes the content of an undergraduate class in mechatronics at Santa Clara University. Designing an undergraduate course in mechatronics poses a challenge as it integrates subareas in mechanics, computer science, electronics and control systems. The problem is compounded when students are from different fields of engineering and have diverse backgrounds and skills. We describe a competition-based...
This paper mainly concentrates on the control of Lunar-bots and is also applicable to other kinds of robots like the one used in warfare, medical surgeries, and even the one that is used for UAV automation using the world wide accessed internet communication with Earth Moon Communication (EMC). This paper discusses the unique way in which we can control the robot deployed in the Moon for space research...
This article shares my experience as a student in working with sumo robots and it describes the building procedure and some important fact about its components as well as some tips and tricks to make some improvements over the classical way of building small robots.
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