This paper explores the design of robot systems to lake advantage of non-linear dynamic systems models, specifically symmetry breaking phenomena, to self-organise in response to task and environment demands. Recent re...
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(纸本)0819426415
This paper explores the design of robot systems to lake advantage of non-linear dynamic systems models, specifically symmetry breaking phenomena, to self-organise in response to task and environment demands. Recent research in the design of robotics systems has stressed modular, adaptable systems operating under decentralised acid distributed control architectures. Cooperative and emergent behavioural structures can be built on these modules by exploiting various forms of communication acid negotiation strategies. We focus on the design of individual modules and their cooperative interaction. We draw on nonlinear dynamic system models of human and animal behaviour to motivate issues in the design of robot modules and systems. Sonar sensing systems comprising a ring of sonar sensors are used to illustrate the Ideas within a networked robotics context, where distributed sensing modules located on multiple robots can interact cooperatively to scan an environment.
This paper discusses development aspects of a wireless network of mobile autonomous robotic Intelligent sensoragents deployed in the field for active investigation of multiple environmental parameters. The collected ...
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(纸本)0780373448
This paper discusses development aspects of a wireless network of mobile autonomous robotic Intelligent sensoragents deployed in the field for active investigation of multiple environmental parameters. The collected sensor data are fused in a world model, which is available to remote human supervisors as an interactive virtual Virtualized Reality(TM) environment model.
The paper is directed toward describing a practical new means by which a remote user can, with a single image of the object surface of interest, specify objectives of a task which may be described in terms of position...
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(纸本)0819423076
The paper is directed toward describing a practical new means by which a remote user can, with a single image of the object surface of interest, specify objectives of a task which may be described in terms of positioning particular tool junctures relative to user-specified surface points. Also included in the paper is a robust means by which an uncalibrated, remote system - consisting of a manipulator, two or more cameras, and a pan/tilt-mounted laser pointer - may be used to carry out the maneuver with very high precision and reliability. This means is based upon the method of ''camera-space manipulation'', wherewith use is made of a conveniently located but uncalibrated laser pointer. The laser pointer is placed upon an uncalibrated, autonomously actuated, pan/tilt unit, and is used to create the compatible maneuver objectives in participating remote cameras, as required by camera-space manipulation. The paper discusses the range of tasks which should be achievable with the paradigm under discussion, as well as some comparisons between this paradigm and alternatives such as teleoperation and virtual-reality-based approaches. Finally, results from several experimental implementations of the method are presented.
Object orientation has been widely used in the development of robotic systems for its benefits of modularity and reusability. Modular robotics systems are designed to be flexible, reusable, easily extendible sets of r...
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In the distributed object recognition problem at least two robots are placed randomly in an unknown environment. The robots have to identify the same object in the environment. We describe a solution to distributed ob...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819434329
In the distributed object recognition problem at least two robots are placed randomly in an unknown environment. The robots have to identify the same object in the environment. We describe a solution to distributed object recognition that computes the transformation of coordinates between two robots' local coordinate frames. This transformation is then used as a translator between the robots' images. We present experimental results from an implementation of this algorithm.
We have designed and built a set of miniature robots and developed a distributed software system to control them. We present experimental results on a surveillance task in which multiple robots patrol an area and watc...
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(纸本)0819442992
We have designed and built a set of miniature robots and developed a distributed software system to control them. We present experimental results on a surveillance task in which multiple robots patrol an area and watch for motion. We discuss how the limited communication bandwidth affects robot performance in accomplishing the task and analyze how performance depends on the number of robots that share the bandwidth.
robotic manipulation systems that operate in unstructured environments must be responsive to feedback from sensors that are disparate in both location and modality. This paper describes a distributed framework for ass...
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robotic manipulation systems that operate in unstructured environments must be responsive to feedback from sensors that are disparate in both location and modality. This paper describes a distributed framework for assimilating the disparate feedback provided by force and vision sensors, including active vision sensors, for robotic manipulation systems. The main components of the expectation-based framework include object schemas and port-based agents. Object schemas represent the manipulation task internally in terms of geometric models with attached sensor mappings. Object schemas are dynamically updated by sensor feedback, and thus provide an ability to perform three dimensional spatial reasoning during task execution. Because object schemas possess knowledge of sensor mappings, they are able to both select appropriate sensors and guide active sensors based on task characteristics. Port-based agents are the executors of reference inputs provided by object schemas and are defined in terms of encapsulated control strategies. Experimental results demonstrate the capabilities of the framework in two ways: the performance of manipulation tasks with active camera-lens systems, and the assimilation of force and vision sensory feedback.
Many future missions for mobile robots demand multi-robot systems which are capable of operating in large environments for long periods of time. A critical capability is that each robot must be able to localise itself...
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(纸本)0819442992
Many future missions for mobile robots demand multi-robot systems which are capable of operating in large environments for long periods of time. A critical capability is that each robot must be able to localise itself. However, GPS cannot be used in many environments (such as within city streets, under water, indoors, beneath foliage or extra-terrestrial robotic missions) where mobile robots are likely to become commonplace. A widely researched alternative is Simultaneous Localization and Map Building (SLAM): the vehicle constructs a map and, concurrently, estimates its own position. In this paper we consider the problem of building and maintaining an extremely large map (of one million beacons). We describe a fully distributed, highly scaleable SLAM algorithm which is based on distributed data fusion systems. A central map is maintained in global coordinates using the Split Covariance Intersection (SCI) algorithm. Relative and local maps are run independently of the central map and their estimates are periodically fused with the central map.
Imaging parameters such as focus strongly influence data quality and the performance of content extraction techniques. Narrow depth of field gives clear focus but only over a short range of depths. This paper shows re...
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In field environments it is not usually possible to provide robots in advance with valid geometric models of its task and environment. The robot or robot teams need to create these models by scanning the environment w...
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In field environments it is not usually possible to provide robots in advance with valid geometric models of its task and environment. The robot or robot teams need to create these models by scanning the environment with its sensors. Here, an information-based iterative algorithm to plan the robot's visual exploration strategy is proposed to enable it to most efficiently build 3D models of its environment and task. The method assumes mobile robot (or vehicle) with vision sensors mounted at a manipulator end-effector (eye-in-hand system). This algorithm efficiently repositions the systems' sensing agents using an information theoretic approach and fuses sensory information using physical models to yield a geometrically consistent environment map. This is achieved by utilizing a metric derived from Shannon's information theory to determine optimal sensing poses for the agent(s) mapping a highly unstructured environment. This map is then distributed among the agents using an information-based relevant data reduction scheme. This method is particularly well suited to unstructured environments, where sensor uncertainty is significant. Issues addressed include model-based multiple sensor data fusion, and uncertainty and vehicle suspension motion compensation. Simulation results show the effectiveness of this algorithm.
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