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This paper presents real time issues faced in the practical implementation of the zigbee based battery status monitoring and charge sharing system. For experimental evaluation four autonomous wheeled robots or nodes were designed. All these nodes were integrated with battery status indicators, Zigbee transceiver modules and obstacle detection sensors for collision avoidance. Only two robots were fitted...
The article presents a practical technique to improve processes in production systems of the automobile manufacturers industry. The technique is directed at optimization of the performance of processing equipment by improvement of its service system. The offered approach is based on the usage of decision support system (DSS), which gives a possibility to make scientific and reasonable administrative...
Introducing robots into the operating theatre has become more popular in recent decades. Surgical manipulators have been developed to assist in surgeries like a human assistant to facilitate the surgical procedures. In this paper, we present an eye-controlled interface for the surgeon to control this kind of robot based on eye-tracking glasses. In our approach, we use the monitor for providing the...
As the elderly population grows rapidly, many social problems arise. In order to help enhance the lives of the elderly, many applications and devices have been developed. However, they are still limited to certain situations and lack some ability for remote assistance. Therefore, we present a projector-camera based assistance device for the elderly. It takes advantage of projection AR technologies...
This paper focuses on user's interactive control experience and information architecture design. From the elements of the user experience and interactive interface design principles, and strive to design a simple, easy to use, stable performance, multi - oriented interactive interface. Based on AD theory, establish the elements of user experience and information architecture, system security, interactive...
One of the most critical issues facing solar plants is to ensure an efficient monitoring of installations, such as localizing dust or broken panels. Filming with robots or drones is widely used, but it is difficult to exploit directly the captured videos. In order to facilitate the monitoring task, we propose a technique to prepare a large panoramic image view of the desired area from the captured...
This paper proposes an effective autonomous task allocation method that can achieve efficient cooperative work by divisional cooperation in multi-agent contexts. Computer and network technology has enabled agents/robots to behave autonomously and to be used in a variety of applications such as cleaning and security patrolling. However, to cover large environments, cooperation and collaboration among...
In view of the heterogeneous characteristics and enormous connections of the underlying networks in Internet of Things(IOT), we proposed a SDN-IOT architecture including physical layer, control layer and application layer in this paper. Based on this architecture, we designed a robot welding monitoring system. Considering a large number of different QoS requirements of data flows in IOT, we proposed...
This paper presents an experimental evaluation of physical human-human interaction in lightweight condition using a one degree of freedom robotized setup. It explores possible origins of Physical Human-Human communication, more precisely, the hypothesis of a time based communication. To explore if the communication is correlated to time a, statistical state machine model based on physical Human-Human...
Advances in automation have the potential to reduce the workload required for human planning and execution of missions carried out by robotic systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, automation can also result in an increase in system complexity and a corresponding decrease in system transparency, which makes identifying and reasoning about errors in mission plans more difficult....
We present a novel fault detection method for application in component-based robotic systems. In contrast to existing work, our method specifically addresses faults in the software system of the robot using a data-driven methodology which exploits the inter-process communication of the system. This enables an application of the approach without expert knowledge or availability of complex software...
Despite the existence of powerful formal languages for writing robot controllers, most existing functional modules are written using standard programming languages. The existence of such a code base raises critical challenges: 1. How to enable automated analysis, monitoring, and reuse of existing code given that reasoning directly about code fragments is impractical. 2. How to convey to users the...
In this paper we consider an online planning problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. Specifically, a UAV has the task of reaching a goal from a set of possible goals while minimizing the amount of energy required. Due to unforeseen disturbances, it is possible that initially attractive goals might end up being very expensive during the execution. Thus, two main problems are investigated...
Integrating logical and probabilistic reasoning and integrating reasoning over observations and predictions are two important challenges in AI. In this paper we propose P-MTL as an extension to Metric Temporal Logic supporting temporal logical reasoning over probabilistic and predicted states. The contributions are (1) reasoning over uncertain states at single time points, (2) reasoning over uncertain...
In this paper we propose a three-layered architecture for the implementation of cloud-based health monitoring system that utilizes ubiquitous commercial health measuring devices. The main advantage of such a solution over the solutions that use proprietary medical hardware is the availability and the number of existing health devices and also relying on the expertise of their vendors. We also identify...
Inspection of the structural health of the bridge column is very important task but near-water surface region is dangerous for structural health monitoring robots due to water tides and spray. The unmanned surface vehicle with vertical thrusting function was developed to attach bridge column regardless of the surface status or material for close inspection and minimizing turbulence or external flow...
We present a multimodal attentional interface suitable for a human operator that monitors and controls the activities of a team of drones during search and rescue missions. We consider a scenario where the operator is a component of the rescue team, hence not fully dedicated to the robots, but only able to interact with them with sparse and incomplete commands. In this context, an adaptive interface...
Two human factors studies were conducted to assess the effectiveness of intelligent agents' user interfaces that were designed based on the Situation awareness-based Agent Transparency (SAT) model. Results show that agents' transparency (based on the SAT model) can benefit operator performance and support proper calibration of trust in the agents. Increasing levels of transparency enhanced operator's...
Clean water is a natural resource that is crucial for life but has very little protection. This was exemplified by the Gold King Mine spill on August 7, 2015, in which three million gallons of acidic mine drainage was released into the head waters of the Animas River. The Animas River is the source for five water supply systems, providing drinking water for tens of thousands of people and irrigation...
Over the last few years, the number of remote patient monitoring (RPM) products and of videoconferencing systems has exploded. There is also a significant number of research initiatives addressing the use of service robots for assistance in daily living activities. From a technological standpoint, providing telehomecare services is certainly feasible. However, one technological barrier is to have...
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