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The most recent European and American Roadmaps for robotics point out the role that robotics will play in people's lives in the coming years, constituting an important tool to support everyday life. The main change is associated with a greater proximity and interactivity of robots with people, influencing their lives, such as unmanned vehicles, personal robotics, assistive robotics, etc. Certainly,...
This paper proposes a novel architecture for control systems of modular reconfigurable robots that combines centralized and decentralized approaches to achieve the best ration between efficiency, fault-tolerance and cost-efficiency.
Communication and possibilities of flexible manufacturing systems control through a variety of communication protocols are described in this article. The main core of the article is to design robotic cells control by using the standard Ethernet (non-RT) while maintaining safety and quality of production, and the system is able to dynamically respond to changes in the production process. The core of...
This paper discusses some important issues related with automation and mechanization of plastering and finishing works at a construction site. It presents some requirements to the automation of finishing works. The paper suggests basic principles of designing finishing robotic systems. It also describes a method to design the block structure of a finishing robot.
This work presents different types of neuronal structures to evaluate their performance as a controller, using a robotic arm for that purpose. To study the performance of the controllers, the first step is to study the system in which the controllers will be applied. After that, different strategies of control need to be studied, in this case based on neural networks. Then the entire system can be...
Multi-robot coalition formation (MRCF) problem deals with the formation of subsets of robotic to handle a particular task. In such a system, every task is executed by multiple robots. Thus, cooperation and coordination among the robots is very important. One of the key issues to be investigated for smooth operation of a multi-robot systems is finding an optimal task allocation among the suitably formed...
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...
The aim of the paper is research and comparative analysis of algorithms from the field of artificial intelligence for searching shortest path in a maze. The algorithms studied are A∗ (A star), backtracking algorithm and genetic algorithm (GAPP — Genetic Algorithm Path Planning). The algorithms are compared by two criteria: length of the found path and time for finding the path. The results, presented...
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...
Multi-robot systems (MRS) have many applications and the efficient operation of MRS relies on coordination of robots. However, it is difficult to build network connections among randomly distributed robots in the presence of robot movements and weak wireless channels. In this work, we propose to jointly exploit communications and motion control to efficiently establish robot connections. To achieve...
This paper is a prospective view on how Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) could be used by Armed Forces. It addresses the operational benefits and ethical issues in the use of such systems. Several scenarios are also presented on the future deployment of such systems on a battlefield.
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...
This paper mainly provides and develops a new continuous-discrete PSO algorithm for handling with the optimal formation problem in the three dimensional space. For one class of formation problem with the particular constraints, it is shown that the center of the desired shape is determined and equal to the center of the initial shape by utilizing the Lagrangian method. From the perspective of efficiency,...
Most path planning methods for mobile robots divide the environment in two areas - free and occupied - and restrict the path to lie entirely within the free space. However, the problem of path planning in rough terrain for a field robot, e.g. tracked wheel, is still a challenging problem, for which those methods cannot be directly applied. This paper addresses the problem of path planning on rough...
This study builds upon previous work regarding people's attitudes toward robot workers, identifying the characteristics of occupations for which people believe robots are qualified and desired. This research updates prior research and adds a new dimension of respondent expertise in the domain of robotics (N=392, which includes 134 robotics experts and 258 non-experts). We deployed a web-based survey...
Robotic grinding for workpiece with complex surface is a new processing method. The theory and implementation of path planning is the key of this method. To solve time-consuming problem of path planning with demonstration system, we established a complete set of process for griding path planning. The relation of the coordinates transformation was analyzed in this method. And the method to access the...
Componentization is an important method to improve the reusability of robot software and reduce the difficulty of system design. To reuse robot software component on different robot hardware, the logical abstraction and standardization of hardware is critical. In this paper, an IPv6 based robot structure is presented to reuse the robot hardware and software resources. Firstly the software architecture...
The design of an efficient collaborative multirobot framework that ensures the autonomy and the individual requirements of the involved robots is a very challenging task. This requires designing an efficient platform for inter-robot communication. P2P is a good approach to achieve this goal. P2P aims at making the communication ubiquitous thereby crossing the communication boundary and has many attractive...
The System of Systems (SOS) technology is an advanced technology for Intelligent Systems that is developed with multiple intelligent systems. Recently, there has been a growing interest in a class of complex systems (robotic swarm as an example) whose constituents are themselves complex. Performance optimization, robustness and reliability among an emerging group of heterogeneous systems in order...
The dynamic window approach to collision avoidance is a well-known method in the mobile robotics field. It provides an elegant way to navigate safely in the presence of obstacles, also taking the dynamic properties of the robot into account. There are different variants of this method, all having the same limitation, namely they use an objective function consisting of weighted terms. Different situations...
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