The paper presents the results of modeling the dynamic behavior of a rotor system using fluid film bearings and magnetorheological squeeze dampers. A rigid rotor model is used to describe the dynamics. A linearized be...
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Lane detection is the most important issue to be resolved for successful locomotion of Intelligent Ground Vehicles (IGV). Problems in lane detection often occur in an external setting mainly due to glare or shadow def...
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Robustness in task execution requires tight integration of continual planning, monitoring, reasoning and learning processes. In this paper, we investigate how robustness can be ensured by learning from experience. Our...
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(纸本)9781467375092
Robustness in task execution requires tight integration of continual planning, monitoring, reasoning and learning processes. In this paper, we investigate how robustness can be ensured by learning from experience. Our approach is based on a learning guided planning process for a robot that gains its experience from action execution failures through lifelong experiential learning. Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is used as the learning method to frame hypotheses for failure situations. It provides first-order logic representation of the robot's experience. The robot uses this experience to construct heuristics to guide its future decisions. The performance of the learning guided planning process is analyzed on our Pioneer 3-AT robot. The results reveal that the hypotheses framed for failure cases are sound and ensure safety and robustness in future tasks of the robot.
Considering the current state in service-robotics, an expert is still necessary to add new tasks and execution behaviors by textual and error-prone programming. Under the consideration that humans typically execute sa...
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(纸本)9781479929719
Considering the current state in service-robotics, an expert is still necessary to add new tasks and execution behaviors by textual and error-prone programming. Under the consideration that humans typically execute same activities almost identical (or at least similar) and further combine simple behaviors to more complex activities, we follow the constitutive assumption that all complex behaviors are composed of a limited set of atomic behaviors. This work introduces a generic framework for spatial-temporal analysis and classification of arbitrary atomic behaviors. Therefore, we propose the combination of Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) and Probabilistic Graphical models (PGM) in order to exploit the advantages of both concepts. In this work, we describe the essential methods of the framework briefly, whereas the data-driven training of the spatial-temporal model and the reasoning process are described in detail. In order to demonstrate the potential and to emphasize the high level of generalization and flexibility in real-world environments, the framework is evaluated in an exemplary scenario.
In modern ageing society, robots are been designed to play an increasing role in the lives of elderly people This paper describes a mobile robotic assistant, named 'LUCAS', Limerick University Computerised Ass...
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(纸本)0769525040
In modern ageing society, robots are been designed to play an increasing role in the lives of elderly people This paper describes a mobile robotic assistant, named 'LUCAS', Limerick University Computerised Assistive System, that is currently being developed to assist elderly individuals with mild cognitive or physical impairments within a library environment. The aim of the project is to provide an assistive socially interactive robotic aid. The main focus of this paper is on the localisation system of 'LUCAS'. A continuous localisation process is used which relies on monocular vision and ultrasonic range readings. The process employ's methods of straight-line-extraction, vanishing point estimation and ultrasonic pattern detection. The correspondence space is reduced by splitting the navigable space into localisation variant regions. The pose is calculated for each localisation hypothesis within the particular region and is used to correct the motion of the robot before it enters the next localisation region.
In this paper, we present legged walking gaits for an amphibious reconfigurable robot based on a novel eccentric paddle mechanism (ePaddle). The ePaddle mechanism is a novel mechanism that is versatility in locomotion...
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This paper addresses the design of instrumented single joint and multi-joints active orthoses for musculoskeletal and neuromuscular disorder exploration and functional rehabilitation. The use of these multi-contact ex...
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The motors or engines of an autonomous ground vehicles (AGV) have torque and power limitations, which limit their abilities to climb steep hills, which are defined to be hills that have high grade sections in which th...
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With quadrotor use seeing extensive growth in recent years, the autonomous control of these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an increasing relevant and intersting field. In this paper a linear state-space approach a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789897580406
With quadrotor use seeing extensive growth in recent years, the autonomous control of these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an increasing relevant and intersting field. In this paper a linear state-space approach at designing a stable hover controller in the presence of disturbances is presented along with simulation of control system performance. Additionally the design of a tracking system, for linear inertial position and yaw, is presented with simulation results. The gain matrix developed for this control system is independent of the specific quadrotor parameters, meaning that this same gain matrix can be used on a wide variety of quadrotors without modification. The hover and tracking controllers designed in this paper proved to perform well in simulation under perturbation disturbances and normally distributed disturbances on the UAVs linear speeds and angular speeds.
Nowadays, legged mobile robots have increased the interest of the robotics community because such mechanisms have higher versatility and autonomy compared to wheeled mobile robots. Although single-leg or multi-leg mec...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781665418737
Nowadays, legged mobile robots have increased the interest of the robotics community because such mechanisms have higher versatility and autonomy compared to wheeled mobile robots. Although single-leg or multi-leg mechanisms can cross any terrain, some disadvantages are related to their increased complexity in mechanical design, modeling and control, and higher power consumption. A first case study for the balance and motion planning problem is the hopping robot, which is a nonholonomic system whose motion dynamics of each hopping cycle can be split into flight and stance phases. In this work, we consider the modeling and control design of a one-legged hopping robot in the flight phase by using the sliding mode approach, due to its well-known ability to deal with parametric uncertainties and nonlinear disturbances. Then, two nonlinear controllers are designed and implemented to automatically stabilize the robot joints during the flight in the presence of perturbations caused by the neglected high-order nonlinear terms in the modeling process, unmodeled dynamics and measurement noise. The Lyapunov stability theory is used to demonstrate the stability and robustness properties of the overall closed-loop control systems. Numerical simulations and a comparative analysis are provided to illustrate the performance and feasibility of the proposed control methodology.
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