In this paper, we present a new robotic system to assist elderly people during walking in outdoor environments. The walking assistive robot is equipped with depth camera, GPS, compass and ultrasonic sensors. The robot...
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(纸本)9781665407717
In this paper, we present a new robotic system to assist elderly people during walking in outdoor environments. The walking assistive robot is equipped with depth camera, GPS, compass and ultrasonic sensors. The robot generates the route to the goal location using the google map. Based on the sensor information the robot follows the generated route while avoiding obstacles. In addition, the robot adjusts its speed based on the walking speed of the user and sends information to the family members of the user about the location in the google map. The robot checks the condition of the user and his/her distance to the robot and takes the appropriate decisions. The usefulness of the proposed system is examined experimentally.
Dense depth estimation in endoscopic images can provide surgeons with important information for performing accurate minimally invasive surgeries. However, it is difficult to estimate the absolute depth of the scene ba...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728198354
Dense depth estimation in endoscopic images can provide surgeons with important information for performing accurate minimally invasive surgeries. However, it is difficult to estimate the absolute depth of the scene based on monocular endoscope. Depth values in endoscopic images change drastically during the operation, which make it hard to estimate them with a fixed baseline. In this paper, we propose a depth estimation scheme with multiple baselines. The monocular endoscope is moved horizontally by a robotic endoscope holder to generate stereo images. A pixel-level depth map fusion algorithm is designed to combine depth values estimated with different baselines. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the accuracy of depth estimation and the visual quality of depth maps.
This study has designed a path planning model for intelligent robot based on computer vision recognition algorithm. Here, the redundant nodes present in the pre-planned path are removed through the node screening mech...
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The increasing world population, growing need for agricultural products, and labour shortages have driven the growth of robotics in agriculture. Tasks such as fruit harvesting require extensive hours of work during ha...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798350301212
The increasing world population, growing need for agricultural products, and labour shortages have driven the growth of robotics in agriculture. Tasks such as fruit harvesting require extensive hours of work during harvest periods and can be physically exhausting. Autonomous robots bring more efficiency to agricultural tasks with the possibility of working continuously. This paper proposes a stackable 3 DoF SCARA manipulator for tomato harvesting. The manipulator uses a custom electronic circuit to control DC motors with an endless gear at each joint and uses a camera and a Tensor processing Unit (TPU) for fruit detection. Cascaded PID controllers are used to control the joints with magnetic encoders for rotational feedback, and a time-of-flight sensor for prismatic movement feedback. Tomatoes are detected using an algorithm that finds regions of interest with the red colour present and sends these regions of interest to an image classifier that evaluates whether or not a tomato is present. With this, the system calculates the position of the tomato using stereo vision obtained from a monocular camera combined with the prismatic movement of the manipulator. As a result, the manipulator was able to position itself very close to the target in less than 3 seconds, where an end-effector could adjust its position for the picking.
As an important part of the mobile robot platform to perceive the external environment, the computer transmits the collected real-time images to the processing unit. After the image information is analyzed and process...
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Modal control was introduced in the second half of the last century to reduce structure vibrations actively. This concept was forced by the spill-over phenomenon, i.e., the escape of the control signal energy to highe...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783031634437;9783031634444
Modal control was introduced in the second half of the last century to reduce structure vibrations actively. This concept was forced by the spill-over phenomenon, i.e., the escape of the control signal energy to higher modes of natural vibrations, which resulted in the system's loss of stability. With the concept of modal control, a modal filter MF was developed, which allowed for removing components related to selected modes from the vibration response of an object. Although it had some drawbacks, the modal filter performed well in preparing data for modal control (better than previously used state observers). One of the problems was filtration's effectiveness in changing the object's dynamic parameters (e.g., a change in ambient temperature causing a change in Young's modulus). The adaptive modal filter AMF was developed in the early 90s of the XX century to extend the modal filter to enable modal control for structures with parameters changing over time. One of the features of the AMF approach is the necessity to operate on a large grid of measuring sensors, which severely limits the method's applicability at that time. In the current state of technology, high-speed cameras are increasingly used, which allow for the simultaneous measurement of vibrations of many points in a structure. This measuring technique has several advantages: relatively low complexity of the measuring system, simultaneous measurement of many points, and non-contact measurement. In the paper, the authors check the effectiveness of applying vision measurements for AMF synthesis. In the first step, appropriate software was prepared in the MATLAB environment, and its correct functioning was checked using simulation data. Then, a laboratory experiment was carried out with simultaneous vision and accelerometric measurements, and the data obtained were successfully subjected to AMF.
In today's industrial landscape, automation has become increasingly vital, particularly in the deployment of robots for tasks such as sorting machine components. The use of robotic systems enhances process accurac...
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Humans locate and track objects and other humans in their surroundings using audio, vision, or a combination of the two sensory modalities. A common strategy for humans searching for others in an indoor environment is...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798400700699
Humans locate and track objects and other humans in their surroundings using audio, vision, or a combination of the two sensory modalities. A common strategy for humans searching for others in an indoor environment is to rely on a sound's Direction of Arrival (DoA), as well as their knowledge of whether a room was previously occupied. In this paper, a similar search behavior is implemented on a mobile robot for the purpose of tracking other humans. To produce this search behavior, we develop an algorithm that performs probabilistic inference of human presence in a specific map region using two sensory cues: DoA of sound and a vision-based estimate of human proximity. A key characteristic of this approach is that the robot can navigate towards a human irrespective of whether the sound signal is continuous, sporadic, or absent altogether. We deploy the proposed search behavior on a robot and evaluate its efficacy at finding a target person across multiple rooms, considering varying levels of human sound (e.g., calling out occasionally, once, or not at all). Our experimental findings indicate that while audio signals are not vital in localizing the target person, they greatly reduce the search time.
vision transformers (ViTs) have recently been used for visual matching. The original grid dividing strategy of ViTs neglects the spatial information of the keypoints, limiting the sensitivity to local information. We ...
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Multispectral pedestrian detection is a crucial component in various critical applications. However, a significant challenge arises due to the misalignment between these modalities, particularly under real-world condi...
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