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Teaching programming skills in schools having non-technical background is seen as a challenging task. In this paper an approach is described where mobile robots are used to get students of non-technical schools interested in programming tasks. The proposed method tries to combine pupils play instinct with the intrinsic motivation to win a challenge. Thereby physical and mathematical motivated questions...
Trust serves as a powerful social capacity that can influence the course of a relationship, either spurring a willingness or refusal of one agent to interact with another. As we attempt to build increasingly complex and useful social robots, we must consider what factors will engender such trust and thus benefit human-robot interaction. In this paper we describe a line of inquiry that is investigating...
As part of ongoing work to create training for Mission Critical Operators, a new training system was developed offering multiple degrees of freedom (DOF), which was a desirable addition as part of a progression of training systems of increasing complexity. With the addition of multiple DOF, the user may be exposed to a more complex control environment presenting challenging tasks related to full range...
A commonly used technique for oil spill response is to use two or more ships towing a boom. Our research proposes fully automated operations based on unmanned ships and a computer-based planning system. The system will carry on a complete autonomous operation, requiring only the position of the oil-spill and to push a start button. The paper describes the steps of the research already accomplished,...
A modular robots is composed of many independent connected modules which are able to achieve common goals through communications. A modular self-reconfigurable robot can move and reorganize its modules to modify its shape. In this paper, we consider a modular self-reconfigurable robot made from cubic modules (blocks) that are able to slide along their faces. Sliding motions imply complex cooperations,...
This article deals with a problem of creating and managing medium to large scale software projects aimed at promoting research activities in the field of autonomous mobile robotic systems. We will demonstrate on an example of such systems how we identified critical parts of the project and how can be created simple but powerful software architecture suitable for complex management of all subsystems...
A modular robots is composed of many independent connected modules which are able to achieve common goals through communications. A modular self-reconfigurable robot can move and reorganize its modules to modify its shape. In this paper, we consider a modular self-reconfigurable robot made from cubic modules (blocks) that are able to slide along their faces. Sliding motions imply complex cooperations,...
Accurate position information of the robot is required in many applications. In this work, a novel INS/range-only based UWB/Encode integrated navigation model is proposed. In this model, the positions of range-only based UWB and INS are used for the position estimation of integrated model; the velocities of encode and INS are used for the velocity estimation of integrated model. Then, a filter with...
In a teleoperated system, robots are often required to easily change among various modes of operation; further, an efficient development of large-scale teleoperated systems is desired. Thus, we propose a three-layer software architecture implemented using a database node module (DNM). All modules are connected to a DNM, with connections among modules defined as virtual connections. It is possible...
Computational Creativity is a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence research, studying how to engineer software that exhibits behaviours which would reasonably be deemed creative. This paper addresses a creative task of question generation from scientific papers, using a pattern-based approach to finding relevant sentences from which questions should be generated, a natural language processing question...
This paper presents a systematic mapping study based on literature and industrial survey related to assistive technologies for people with dementia. The world population of the ageing people is increasing both in developed and developing countries, so does the number of people with dementia. Consequently assistive technologies are getting much importance from academic researchers and industry as an...
Cyber-Physical system (CPS) are now widely used in the design of smart objects. A CPS is the integration of computational elements with physical processes. One of the most widespread application of CPS is the autonomous transportation systems. This paper presents a CPS model for the design of a platoon system approach (i.e. a set of autonomous vehicles that move together without any mechanical link...
Any small defect is not permitted in the industry, so PLC real-time engine performance is very important for industry robot control system. Because these industrial characteristic, a new untested system can't be used in real field.
In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control approach which combines fuzzy control with the sliding mode control, is applied for the tracking control of pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA). This actuator is widely used in the rehabilitation robots while hard to control due to its strong nonlinearity. The switching-type control term in the sliding mode control law is approximated by a fuzzy system...
When the upper limb is amputated or lost, a prosthetic device play an important role in rehabilitation. Prosthetics are available in the form of myoelectric devices. These devices work by sensing the Electromyogram (EMG) signals, through electrodes, when the muscles in the upper arm move, this makes an artificial hand to move accordingly. EMG signals cannot be used directly in raw form to control...
The paper presents a proposal of sensor fusion combining data derived from a Kinect device and high-precision sensors. The main idea was to enhance the tracking of a human arm in order to obtain precise coordinates. The Kinect plays the role of a calibration device and sensors' data are used in kinematics equations for enhanced tracking of the arm. This way the resulting information has less uncertainty...
Some problems related to software process and project management improvement programs are detected during their implementation. Companies from the software projects segment have difficulty dealing with software Project management and quality models (CMMI, MPS-BR and PM-BOK) since the ways to implement the key areas of the process and the good practices inherent to Project management are interpreted...
This paper proposes the improvement of the process of health recovery by using a programmable medication dispenser. We designed and realized an electronic pills dispenser with seven circular containers. The dispenser is realized around PIC18F458 microcontroller which controls all the function of the dispenser. Using a keyboard and an LCD, the user can easily set the hour when the pills will be supplied...
Work in Progress: This paper reports the study on how peer review instruments based on existing e-learning tools can affect the quality of peer review process and how this type of tools can benefit the reviewers. The study starts from a pilot study on constructing peer assessment instruments for an assignment in a Master course by using PeerMark and Moodle workshop. A comparison of these two tools...
A pyroprocessing technology is being developed at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. This technology development is conducted in a completely sealed argon cell where, as the cell is active, human operators' access to the in-cell is not possible owing to the nature of the toxicity of argon gas. Relevant processing equipment installed inside the cell should be operated and maintained in a fully...
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