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In February 2015, a video posted online by Boston Dynamics, showing a man kicking their quadruped robot “Spot” in order to demonstrate the robot's capacity to regain its balance, “went viral”. A number of media websites subsequently published stories asking whether it was wrong to kick a robot dog. Most pundits seemed to conclude that there was nothing wrong with kicking a robot as long as doing so...
The Freeze-Tag Problem is a problem in swarm robotics. The problem goes as this: there are n robots; Of these, n-1 ones are “asleep” or in “standby mode” in the beginning of the problem and only one robot is "awake". Only awake robots can move and the asleep ones are stationary. Once an awake robot touches an asleep robot by going to its exact place, the asleep robot awakens and becomes...
A robot with the ability to dance in response to music could lead to novel and interesting interactions with humans. For example, such a robot could be used to augment live performances alongside human dancers. This paper describes a system enabling humanoid robots to move in synchrony with music. A small robot, the Hitec RoboNova, was initially used to develop smooth sequences of complex gestures...
There are many alternative human-computer interfaces that are in active development in current time. For example, a user already can send commands to robotic device via brain-computer interface. Unfortunately, this control channel isn't reliable enough to handle critical devices, but it can still be useful to clarify commands from other control channels. The robotic device operator can be influenced...
Finding path in a given environment seems trivial so research, these days, is focused at finding optimal and quality path. Among others, distance traversed by a robot from start point to reach goal is an important measure of optimality and so is safety of robot while traveling through identified path. In this paper, we present a hybrid technique developed by integrating visibility graph as global...
Input shaping is a technique that reduces residual vibration by generating a self-canceling command signal. This technique is developed by N.C. Singer and W.P. Seering for flexible structures, and applied especially in aerospace field and robotics. Traditionally, input shaper has contained only positive impulses. However, negative valued impulses allow to decrease the shaper length. In previous works,...
This paper aims to exploit technology in saving lives; a robotic arm is designed for EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) applications that can rival the EOD robotic arms available in the market, in terms of both its capabilities and functionality, and still cost a small fraction of their price. Though there are many robotic arms that are commercially available, which can be used to handle different...
The annual International Mechatronics Educational Project (IMEP) was set up as a cooperation between three European universities from The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium in 2013 and was held for the 3rd time in Spring 2015. IMEP 2015 started with a kick-off meeting in February and ended 17 weeks later with an assessment including a demonstration of the students' work. During the fifth and tenth week...
This paper presents an innovative framework concept combined with online labs for teaching and learning of engineering subjects. The concept integrates comprehensive approaches of different classical and innovative aspects. The paper gives an overview of current state-of-art technologies in remote and virtual labs and some existing activities for transnational online experimentation frameworks. New...
In this paper, we present an architecture to fuse different data from onboard sensors (LiDAR and Camera) for real-time navigation of Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV). The proposed system architecture comprises three main interacting modules; line and obstacle detection module, path planning and tracking module, and a real-time motor driving processing module. While these modules were developed individually...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Lego Robotics Training on learner performance in mathematics. This research was conducted partially to determine the efficacy of a community engagement project that was established to inspire young people's interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The project uses LEGO League robotics to mentor learners (aged...
The paper deals with adaptive control system for robotic complex. This system depending on current values of continuously varying parameters of control objects can support the maximum possible speed of the working tools and accessory equipment without reducing a given dynamic accuracy. During performance of various technological operations there are situations when mass-inertial characteristics (parameters)...
The Cyber Innovation Center's Cyber Science curriculum is an interdisciplinary approach to educate high school students to become better cyber-citizens. Through Cyber Science, students learn applicable fundamental concepts from political sciences, history, and law as well as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines as they relate to cyber. In particular, the curriculum...
Computer vision systems are one of the most widely used techniques in Automation and have been extensively used for industry automation. Industrial automation deals mainly with the automation of production, quality control and materials management processes. One trend is the increasing use of Machine vision to offer automatic inspection and robot guidance functions, while the other is a continued...
This paper presents the results of a preliminary assessment study to investigate baseline performance measures and differences between control and stroke participants during reaching tasks in three directions. H-Man, planar robot is, used for this purpose. Thirteen healthy and two chronic stroke patients with upper limb motor impairment participated in the study. Assessment of performance was made...
The main goal of this study is to present preliminary results on the effects of combined transcranial direct current stimulation and wrist robot-assisted therapy in subacute stroke patients. Twelve subacute stroke patients participated in the study and were randomly assigned to the experimental (real stimulation on the affected hemisphere) or control group (sham stimulation). Clinical scales were...
This paper presents a combined robotic and external ballistic model to predict the feed pellet distribution pattern across the water surface generated by a pneumatic rotary feed spreader commonly used in sea cage aquaculture. Results from experimental studies have been used to parameterize and validate the model. The model can be applied to evaluate spreader performance under varying operational conditions...
A key requirement for modern large scale neuromorphic systems is the ability to detect and diagnose faults and to explore self-correction strategies. In particular, to perform this under area-constraints which meet scalability requirements of large neuromorphic systems. A bio-inspired online fault detection and self-correction mechanism for neuro-inspired PID controllers is presented in this paper...
In many assistive robotic systems, the interface to the user is simply a tablet computer or a monitor attached to a single robot. Missing from approaches are the system extensibility made possible with a tablet computer and a division of work between multiple agents. In this paper we present the design for a software interface to connect users to an assistive robot system for the disabled and elderly...
Over the past years Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been applied to a range of fields from military applications to medical and multimedia ones. Meanwhile, robots have managed to prove their necessity in cases where actuation is needed, therefore, achieving high accuracy tasks indeed. New prospects of collaboration for these two avant-garde technologies have already emerged and have been put...
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