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Engineering design is an art that takes skill, training, knowledge, and effort. It is one of the most difficult subjects to teach at engineering schools. A typical design course requires students to perform design tasks without explanation of the design methodology. With the ever-changing demands of the society and advances of technology, teaching engineering design effectively has become an urgent...
This paper establishes a multi-motor control system based on the local area network. It introduces the control strategy and the master-slave network structure. It analyzes both the advantage and disadvantage of the traditional communication modes RS-422 and CAN. And based on the analysis, the paper puts forward a full-duplex communication method which combines the advantages of both RS-422 and CAN...
The 21st century is witnessing unprecedented automation in many areas of life. As a result, tasks previously undertaken by a person are now done by a machine. Humans who previously undertook these tasks brought particular views and approaches to each task. These or alternative views or approaches are now embodied in the machine. Rather than entirely removing humans from the process, however, replacement...
Robot with different personality have different behavior patterns, and personality will improve the emotional intelligence of robot, while it provide more possibilities for robots cooperative work. A personalized multi robot pursuit task allocation algorithm is proposed, in which personalitys regulatory role is made full use in the process of robot pursuit task allocation. Using emotional cooperation...
In this paper, we discuss our contribution to the field of computer science and education technology through various projects we have designed and implemented at Auburn University. We begin by introducing a very successful computer proficiency course called Personal Computer Applications (PCA). The goal of this course is not only to impart useful computer skills to the students but also to attract...
In order to have more students in engineering and computer science, we need more students interested in these fields. Many community college (CC) students believe that engineering is boring and has little to do with their lives, but also admit that they know very little about engineering. Our research question is: How can we best get the attention of CC students in order for them to get engineering...
The objective of this paper is to instill in students motivation and interest for what they are studying a little bit further of the theory they learn in classroom. Sometimes students prefer more interactive classes and want to know why the material given in class is helpful in their career. Do we have a solution for this? Autonomous Robotic Vehicle (ARV) projects can be the solution to this problem...
Educators and parents alike are seeking innovative ways to introduce young students to computer programming. The hope is to capture children's attention and foster learning at the same time. The goal of this work was to not only introduce elementary students to the fundamentals of computer programming, but also help them explore more complex concepts in an engaging way. Studies have shown that factors...
We describe a new approach to the design and real-time implementation of an adaptive controller for robotic manipulator based on digital signal processors in this paper. The Texas Instruments DSPs(TMS320C80) chips are used in implementing real-time adaptive control algorithms to provide enhanced motion control performance for dual-arm robotic manipulators. In the proposed scheme, adaptation laws are...
With the development of cooperative robotic applications, variable kinds of communication method between robots are applied. The quality of communication has directly affect to the movement of each mobile robot in system. This paper proposes an approach to control the communication between 3 mobile robots by using wireless communication. In this paper, we focus on three main parts. In the first part,...
Ubiquitous computing, known also as internet of things, is often considered as the post internet revolution, where devices are embedded in everyday objects that can communicate and take decision automatically without human intervention. However, in spite of their quick popularity and the maturity of both embedded architectures and computer science programming, designing flexible ubiquitous system...
We present a method to predict collisions with objects thrown at a quadrotor using a pair of dynamic vision sensors (DVS). Due to the micro-second temporal resolution of these sensors and the sparsity of their output, the object's trajectory can be estimated with minimal latency. Unlike standard cameras that send frames at a fixed frame rate, a DVS only transmits pixel-level brightness changes (“events”)...
Development of intellectual information technology augmented reality for persons with disabilities, including converting visual images into sound and vice versa by generating a single concept. Use of the unified knowledge base for operating mechanism, that stores images concepts.
While interactive technologies frequently are designed to be enjoyable, there are particular reasons to prioritize this for technologies intended to support autism interventions. Most broadly, enjoyment of activities or materials used in interventions has been associated with heightened improvements in the behaviors targeted by the interventions. In the largest group study to date of school-aged children...
One of the main problems in minimum invasive robotic surgery is effective control of the tracking error due to hand tremor. In this paper we review issues of hand tremor using surgical robot and propose a novel technique using wavelet transform with minimum coefficients to get a tremor free signal. In the parameter learning phase the error is minimized with minimum wavelet compression and as time...
A master and slave robot act in a teleoperation system. The master and slave angular position and velocities are sampled at integer multiples of a time step and the resulting difference errors at different sampling times are fed back both at the master and salve end after introducing appropriate feedback weights for each error sample. During the process of reading the master variables at the slave...
In this paper, we show that the existence of centrally synergistic potential functions on the n-dimensional sphere, denoted by Sn, is a sufficient condition for the global asymptotic stabilization of a point in Sn. Additionally, if these functions decrease exponentially fast during flows and are bounded from above and from below by some polynomial function of the tracking error, then the reference...
This paper explores the control of an automobile mounted with a BlackWidow 1.0 microcontroller from a remote location using a smartphone or a computer as a data mining and analysis device as well as for the purposes of first response search and rescue during a disaster relief operation. Custom application programs; ReCon-A for the Android platform and ReCon-V for Microsoft Windows are designed specifically...
The International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) aims at pulling forward the state of the art in UAV. The Mission's 7 challenge deals mainly with GPS/Laser denied navigation, Robot-Robot interaction and obstacle avoidance in the setting of a ground robot herding problem. We present in this paper our UAV which took part in the 2014 competition, in the China venue. This year, the mission was not...
Understanding the real world based on visualisation and prediction is essential for the decision-maker. We build a computational virtual reality environment to improve visualisation, understanding and prediction of the physical world and to guide action. It develops a five-dimensional, computer-generated, computational Virtual Reality Environment for Anaesthesia (VREA). Our online prediction will...
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