Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been considered a key feature of next-generation wireless networks. This paper investigates the joint design of the radar receive filter and dual-functional transmit wav...
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We present Nav2Goal, a data-efficient and end-to-end learning method for goal-conditioned visual navigation. Our technique is used to train a navigation policy that enables a robot to navigate close to sparse geograph...
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In this work, we propose a framework that can provide performance metrics with regards to the usability of an assistive device designed to provide visual servoing of a reaching task performed by a visually impaired in...
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In this work, we propose a framework that can provide performance metrics with regards to the usability of an assistive device designed to provide visual servoing of a reaching task performed by a visually impaired individual. The framework provides a model and methodology from which performance metrics can be synthesized based on robotic manipular kinematics and an adaptation of Fitts' law for reaching task motions in a 3D environment. The purpose of which is to facilitate an understanding of how well the system's design accommodates the user's natural movement style when performing the reaching task. Use of advances in visual tracking techniques employing scale, view-point, and illumination invariant features are incorporated to allow for a further decoupling of the feature space from the joint-level control space.
In this work, we have taken the first step towards the creation of a computerized seeing-eye guide-dog. The system we presented extends the development of assistive technology for the visually impaired into a new area...
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In this work, we have taken the first step towards the creation of a computerized seeing-eye guide dog. The system we presented extends the development of assistive technology for the visually impaired into a new area...
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In this work, we have taken the first step towards the creation of a computerized seeing-eye guide dog. The system we presented extends the development of assistive technology for the visually impaired into a new area: object tracking and visual servoing. The system uses computervision to provide a kind of surrogate sight for the human user; sensing information from the environment and communicating it through haptic signalling. Our proof-of concept prototype is a low-cost wearable system which uses a colour camera to analyze a scene and recognize a desired object, then generate tactile cues to the wearer to steer his or her hand towards the object. We have proved the system in trials with random users in an unstructured environment.
This paper proposes a method of 3-dimensional measurement of a planar surface by using two fixed light sources and a TV camera. A set of two images is recorded by the camera switching on each light alternately. The pe...
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This paper proposes a method of 3-dimensional measurement of a planar surface by using two fixed light sources and a TV camera. A set of two images is recorded by the camera switching on each light alternately. The peak of the luminance distribution in each image is detected, and the orientation and distance of the planar surface are calculated. The position of the peak of a luminance distribution can be estimated accurately by using an image processing. The light sources can be conventional apparatus with no particular structure. The method is simple and suitable for a vision system on an indoor mobile robot.
Due to demographical factors, there will be a 25% decline in the national labor pool of eligible 17 to 21 year old men by 1992. As the Navy faces fierce competition with other services and private industry for the dwi...
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Due to demographical factors, there will be a 25% decline in the national labor pool of eligible 17 to 21 year old men by 1992. As the Navy faces fierce competition with other services and private industry for the dwindling personnel resources of the nation, efforts must be made to consider automating certain tasks, especially those that are hazardous, boring, and labor intensive onboard ships at sea. The Surface Ship Continuing Concept Formulation (CONFORM) Program (SEA-5014) sponsored the Naval Surface Weapons Center's roboticslaboratory to identify potential applications of robotic and artificial intelligence systems to operation and mission activities for shipboard use. The results of the investigation concerning applications of robotics to automate the aforementioned tasks are presented. Changes in current manning levels for selected tasks and ship classes, i.e., CVs, CVNs, LPDs, LPNs, and auxiliaries are examined. Future ship designs incorporating robotics, such as the advance based repair (ABR) ship are discussed. Twenty-four applications were cited in the study which include a remote controlled vehicle for flight deck operations, limited tasks in biological, chemical, and radiation environments, computer aided command decision aids, ordnance handling, undersea search, recovery, and salvage, and ventilation duct cleaning. Four of the applications and their subsequent hardware fruition will be discussed.
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