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This paper proposes the constant execution time multiple human detection system. The human detection from video sequence is important in a monitoring camera system and a robot vision. It is important not to change execution time in human detection system regardless number of persons. In this paper, the feature amount of an image was calculated by using Cubic Higher-Order Local Auto Correlation (CHLAC)...
The study concerns a 2D safety vision system for human-robot collaborative work environments. The vision system is characteristic of having a freedom from structuring the environment by setting passive markings, i.e. neither painting on the floor nor hanging a camera up on a ceiling is necessary. To preserve safety states, we set the passive markings in the original image based upon Shannon information...
The objective of this paper is to present a Mixed Reality System for Serious Games (MRSGS) used for the rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke. The system answers the following challenges: (i) increase motivation of patients by making the training a personalized experience; (ii) take into account patients' impairments by offering intuitive and easy to use interaction modalities; (iii) make...
In human and robot cooperated electronics manufacturing system, correctly mating connectors by robot, not human, is vital for the improvement of overall performance. Although static force model has been established based on force and position information during mating, there are some difficulties should be overcome to implement a mating process monitoring task on deformable PCBs. For this purpose,...
In order to provide quicker, and more comprehensive network service for users, and to bring more convenience for the development of the SP/CP(Service Provider/Content Provider), we propose an open service system whose architecture and the standardization of the open API(Application Programming Interface) are discussed more in this paper. To design such a system, Firstly, the common services model,...
This paper proposes a study corroborated by preliminary experiments on the inference of social relations based on the analysis of interpersonal distances, measured with on obtrusive computer vision techniques. The experiments have been performed over 13 individuals involved in casual standing conversations and the results show that people tend to get closer when their relation is more intimate. In...
The 4C's of software, computation, communication, configuration and coordination, indicate that the deployment and configuration of software components is an important part of using a component-based software system. This applies as much to robotics as anywhere else, where how to easily deploy the complex web of software components that make up a complete robot system is a well-known problem. We have...
In this paper we demonstrate the online applicability of the fault detection and diagnosis approach which we previously developed and published in [1]. In our former work we showed that a purely data driven fault detection approach can be successfully built based on monitored inter-component communication data of a robotic system and used for a-posteriori fault detection. Here we propose an extension...
The software architectures of safety and mission-critical systems are designed to satisfy and balance an exacting set of quality concerns describing characteristics such as performance, reliability, and safety. Unfortunately, practice has shown that long-term maintenance activities can erode these architectural qualities. In this paper we present a novel solution for preserving architectural qualities...
In exhibition to roboticized plant and large-scale complicated equipment, existing two-dimensional interface technology in industrial monitor and control (IMC) system has a lack of expressive force. It is required to add the dimension of information expression, and enhance the expressive force and interaction ability of IMC interface system via three-dimensional virtual reality technology, X3D as...
Since the word mechatronics was created in 1960s, the connection in physical level of mechanical and electronic subsystems and power driving had been gradually realized. By the end of 1980s, it was emphasized that the control of mechatronics systems was based on sensor information, scilicet the concept of information-driven. At the turn of the century, more and more researches and applications concentrated...
This paper recaps a recent study in the organization of interactive practices utilized by humans in card-game activities for the purposes of informing the design of human-robot interaction with autonomous social robotic systems. The research utilized an applied Conversation Analytic (CA) approach to focus on the practices by which humans identified and dealt with interactional trouble within the game...
In this paper the semi-autonomous initial monitoring concept for the care-providing robotic system FRIEND is presented. The objective of this concept is context-aware task planning, i.e. the planning procedure is adapted to the actual situation which is the initial situation for the next task, so that the system is able to operate in an intelligent manner also in unknown environments. Therefore the...
Inspired by the developmental timeline of joint attention in humans, we propose a conceptual model of joint attention with three parts: responding to joint attention, initiating joint attention, and ensuring joint attention.We conduct two experiments to investigate effects of joint attention in human-robot interaction. The first experiment explores the effects of responding to joint attention. We...
Component Based Software Engineering is a common approach to master complexity in service robotic systems. Moreover, these systems must be robust and safe. Common robotic middlewares and frameworks provide component models with well defined communication mechanisms. However, generic means are missing to gain insight into running components. Components must be monitored (i) during their development...
Machines performance and its availability in the factory are essential to the production unit. Therefore the technical staffs have to monitor the equipment to ensure everything is in good condition. However, the technical staffs including engineers are underutilized. This is due to they have to check the machines at different places by following the schedule. This research aims to assist technical...
Designing and constructing affective robots on schedule and within costs is especially challenging because of the qualitative, artistic nature of affective expressions. Detailed affective design principles do not exist, forcing an iterative design process. This paper describes a three step design process created for the Survivor Buddy project that engages artists in the design process and allows animation...
FPGA has been used in many robotics projects for real-time image processing. It provides reliable systems with low execution time and simplified timing analysis. Many of these systems take a lot of time in development and testing phases. In some cases, it is not possible to test the system in real environments very often, due to accessibility, availability or cost problems. This paper is the result...
This talk introduces the development of a new collaborative and distributed intelligent environment that supports collaboration among geographically dispersed people including intelligent systems. The collaborative and distributed intelligent environment merges seamlessly mixed realities in terms of physical space, document, people, physical facilities and equipment, virtual environments, collaborative...
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