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We introduce a novel evaluation methodology to establish psychometrically validated measures to objectively evaluate socially capable robots. Our methodology involves first creating a digital computer generated face model designed to replicate the facial expression space of the robot with the highest accuracy, and second, using this model to render test sequences, which are in turn analyzed with independent...
This paper presents the design and development of a new low cost device that allows real-time control application of a robotic system using novel methodologies of component based design: processor in the loop tuning and low/high level control. The particular design of this electronic board allows to control up to three permanent magnet (PM) DC motors per board that can be attached to magnetic or optical...
Grafting technique helps to reduce soil-borne diseases, overcome the obstacles of cropping cultivation, increase yield and fruit quality. But grafting requires precise technique; the proficiency of operation will also directly affect the productivity and the survival rate of grafted seedlings. With the wide application of grafting technology, grafting robots were developed continually. However, the...
Test and validation of autonomous mechatronic systems is a major challenge. Due to more complex tasks as well as dynamic environments, existing test and validation methods are reaching their limits. The complexity and diversity of their elements and interrelations of these as well as interrelations with environmental elements have to be handled because established methods do not consider the characteristics...
This paper presents ROSMOD, a model-driven component-based development tool suite for the Robot Operating System (ROS). ROSMOD is well suited for the design, development and deployment of large scale distributed applications on embedded hardware devices. We present the various features of ROSMOD including the modeling language, the graphical user interface, code generators and deployment infrastructure...
This article describes the design and implementation of a 3D printer prototype based on a delta parallel robot, which decreases printing time without losing quality in the final product. In addition, the free software, Repertier, was used for programming and GUI. For height calibration of printer dock, an automatic leveling system was develop through an inductive sensor in order to avoid manual handling.
We propose a method for generating interpretable descriptions of inputs that cause faults in high-dimensional software interfaces. Our method models the set of fault-triggering inputs as a Cartesian product and identifies this set by actively querying the system under test. The active sampling scheme is very efficient in the common case that few fields in the interface are relevant to causing the...
Nowadays dangerous, repetitive or precision requiring jobs are done by robots like flying drones, industrial assembly arms or medical assistants. In all these cases, human beings can interact with the machines, therefore it is essential to guarantee that every part of the robot's software and hardware will produce a safe behavior: both the overall behavior and the local behaviors of such embedded...
To be safe, mobile multi-robots systems need to be able to adapt to unexpected behaviours of robots as well as to exogenous changes in the environment. In this paper, we describe a novel approach for the development of multi-robots systems where robots collectively collaborate with each other to satisfy their goals and to adapt their behaviour in a collective way satisfying the overall system safety...
This paper discusses the application of Open Space Technology as a human swarm methodology and explores options for optimization. Open Space Technology, a self-organizing style of meeting, was applied by Hyland Software as an exercise in distributed problem solving with regards to the function of the company. Two applications by Hyland Software were observed, one with topical guidance and one without,...
Modern engineering design and simulation software (CAD, CAM, CAE) allow for extensive use of virtual prototypes along the product and production development reducing the cost and time of physical prototyping. These software technologies in turn has also important role in testing and verification against the various regulations. This paper reviews the recent progress of virtual verification (ViVer)...
Mobile robots are nowadays used in a wide variety of missions especially for exploring environments and allowing scientists who study these environments to gather data about them. However the monolithic design of control laws is often a hindrance to adapting control solutions from a robotic application to another. We thus propose a new control description paradigm strongly focused on modularity as...
Robotics applications are characterized by a huge amount of variability. Their design requires the developers to choose between several variants, which relate to both functionalities and hardware. Some of these choices can be taken at deployment-time, however others should be taken at run-time, when more information about the context is known. To make this possible, a software system needs to be able...
Current robotic rehabilitation devices have a high cost-to-benefit ratio, which prevents their large scale adoption by the clinical rehabilitation community. This paper first presents H-Man, a low cost planar robot, as a quantitative assessment and training tool. This is followed by a preliminary study to investigate baseline performance measures for motor assessment during reaching tasks as a step...
This paper is devoted to a centralized mission planner for a group of marine robots. Mission is considered consisting of straight line segments (usually called tacks). The planner takes segments spatial configuration into account and solves a problem similar to the Multiple Travelling Salesman Problem (MTSP) in order to assign a sequence of segments to each vehicle. The contribution of this paper...
Traditional performance and energy scaling benefits based on technology improvements have slowed greatly. At the same time the demand for computing capability is unsatiated with new killer applications emerging in the domains of robotics, automotive, and machine-intelligence. Lack of progress in technology scaling will necessarily place more demands on the computer architecture and software layers...
This paper presents the architecture of system that has been developed for practical verification of the real-time control algorithms performance intended for servicing mobile platform. The system has been implemented using the hardwaresoftware framework developed within RobREx project. This framework is a composition of a well integrated software tools and hardware devices dedicated for developing...
Simulation is an initial approach to determine the experiment feasibility, especially for a complex robotics environment. This paper give an overview of five simulation software for non-expert developers to quickly perform the multirobots simulation. In the advanced robotics field, further research requires simulations, especially which involve multi-robots as to run quickly. There are many robotics...
In open normative multi-agent systems, norms are created dynamically. Some of these norms emerge and persist due to their benefits and strength. While other norms emerge for a short period of time, then vanish due to several reasons that lead to loss in their benefit or strength. Each norm of the created ones might have positive, negative, or neutral consequences on the system. Norms decay by society's...
Service computing technologies have been widely applied to many application domains to facilitate rapid system integration for desired goals. However, existing service models need to be enhanced for cyber-physical systems (CPS) and internet-of-things (IoT). In this paper, we develop an ontology model for the specification of services in CPS/IoT. First, we discuss the major differences in modeling...
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