This article investigates the application of robotic systems, particularly a novel roundworm-like robot for gastrointestinal examinations. Unlike traditional endoscopic methods, this biomimetic approach leverages the ...
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Over the past decades, trajectory optimization (TO) has become an effective solution for solving complex motion generation problems in robotics, ranging from autonomous driving to humanoids. Yet, TO methods remain lim...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798350381818
Over the past decades, trajectory optimization (TO) has become an effective solution for solving complex motion generation problems in robotics, ranging from autonomous driving to humanoids. Yet, TO methods remain limited to robots with tens of degrees of freedom (DoFs), limiting their usage in soft robotics, where kinematic models may require hundreds of DoFs in general. In this work, we introduce a generic method to perform trajectory optimization based on continuum mechanics to describe the behavior of soft robots. The core idea is to condense the dynamics of the soft robot in the constraint space in order to obtain a reduced dynamics formulation, which can then be plugged into numerical TO methods. In particular, we show that these condensed dynamics can be easily coupled with differential dynamic programming methods for solving TO problems involving soft robots. This method is evaluated on three different soft robots with different geometries and actuation.
Nonlinear dynamical effects are crucial to the operation of many agile robotic systems. Koopman-based model learning methods can capture these nonlinear dynamical system effects in higher dimensional lifted bilinear m...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728196817
Nonlinear dynamical effects are crucial to the operation of many agile robotic systems. Koopman-based model learning methods can capture these nonlinear dynamical system effects in higher dimensional lifted bilinear models that are amenable to optimal control. However, standard methods that lift the system state using a fixed function dictionary before model learning result in high dimensional models that are intractable for real time control. This paper presents a novel method that jointly learns a function dictionary and lifted bilinear model purely from data by incorporating the Koopman model in a neural network architecture. Nonlinear MPC design utilizing the learned model can be performed readily. We experimentally realized this method on a multirotor drone for agile trajectory tracking at low altitudes where the aerodynamic ground effect influences the system's behavior. Experimental results demonstrate that the learning-based controller achieves similar performance as a nonlinear MPC based on a nominal dynamics model in medium altitude. However, our learning-based system can reliably track trajectories in near-ground flight regimes while the nominal controller crashes due to unmodeled dynamical effects that are captured by our method.
This work presents the dual benefit of integrating imitation learning techniques, based on the dynamical systems formalism, with the visual servoing paradigm. On the one hand, dynamical systems allow to program additi...
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(纸本)9781728196817
This work presents the dual benefit of integrating imitation learning techniques, based on the dynamical systems formalism, with the visual servoing paradigm. On the one hand, dynamical systems allow to program additional skills without explicitly coding them in the visual servoing law, but leveraging few demonstrations of the full desired behavior. On the other, visual servoing allows to consider exteroception into the dynamical system architecture and be able to adapt to unexpected environment changes. The beneficial combination of the two concepts is proven by applying three existing dynamical systems methods to the visual servoing case. Simulations validate and compare the methods;experiments with a robot manipulator show the validity of the approach in a real-world scenario.
The complexity of transient characteristics in large-scale wind farms (WF) hinders the application of machine learning algorithms. This paper proposes a neural network-based learning method to model the transient char...
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This paper explores the experience of implementing virtual reality (VR) laboratory activities with Internet-of-Things (IoT) for students to learn industrial robotics and automation in manufacturing. This work provides...
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Emerging from a rich heritage, the shoe manufacturing industry stands as one of the world's most enduring and tradition-bound sectors. While renowned for their high-quality craftsmanship, countries like Portugal a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798331516246;9798331516239
Emerging from a rich heritage, the shoe manufacturing industry stands as one of the world's most enduring and tradition-bound sectors. While renowned for their high-quality craftsmanship, countries like Portugal and Italy share the spotlight with those who focus on mass production methods. Regardless of their manufacturing model, both must adapt to the evolving competitive landscape by embracing innovative manufacturing techniques. robotics has emerged as a transformative force within the shoe industry, offering a path towards enhanced working conditions for employees while simultaneously reducing reliance on manual labor and bolstering productivity. The main focus of this paper is the comprehensive literature review, which examines the advancements made by researchers in various stages of shoe production, including roughing, gluing, finishing, and lasting. This article sheds light on the industry's response to modernization and efficiency imperatives, providing a thorough understanding of robotics in shoe manufacturing automation. A case study on the real implementation and simulation of a robotic cell for sole roughing is also presented. The results revealed that the robotic cell maintains the production cadence.
Testing and evaluation of field robotic systems requires both experimentation in representative conditions and human supervision to effectively assess components, manage risk, and interpret results. Due to the complex...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728196817
Testing and evaluation of field robotic systems requires both experimentation in representative conditions and human supervision to effectively assess components, manage risk, and interpret results. Due to the complexity of robotic systems, we argue this experimentation should be done adaptively by using insights gained from previous trials. Furthermore, we envision an advisory system that could assist experimenters with selecting trial configurations by learning and accounting for human preferences and risk tolerances;however, formal methods for human decision making in the context of field robotic experimentation remains an open question. In this work, we present and analyze a case study for how decisions were made during the testing and evaluation of an off-road, autonomous navigation system. From the perspective of active learning, we find that Bayesian Optimization is a promising mathematical framework for modeling human decision making in adaptive experimental design of field robotics and that a combination of the EI, KG, and PES acquisition functions would likely be useful for realizing an advisory system.
The online effective detection of internal defects in metals has long faced many challenges. The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has provided possibilities for improving defect detection t...
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We propose an adaptive optimisation approach for tuning stochastic model predictive control (MPC) hyper-parameters while jointly estimating probability distributions of the transition model parameters based on perform...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728196817
We propose an adaptive optimisation approach for tuning stochastic model predictive control (MPC) hyper-parameters while jointly estimating probability distributions of the transition model parameters based on performance rewards. In particular, we develop a Bayesian optimisation (BO) algorithm with a heteroscedastic noise model to deal with varying noise across the MPC hyper-parameter and dynamics model parameter spaces. Typical homoscedastic noise models are unrealistic for tuning MPC since stochastic controllers are inherently noisy, and the level of noise is affected by their hyper-parameter settings. We evaluate the proposed optimisation algorithm in simulated control and robotics tasks where we jointly infer control and dynamics parameters. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach leads to higher cumulative rewards and more stable controllers.
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