Networked Control Systems (NCS) are used for remote control of distributed or non- co-located systems where the control loop is closed via a communication link. Remote access to industrial robotic systems is one of th...
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Networked Control Systems (NCS) are used for remote control of distributed or non- co-located systems where the control loop is closed via a communication link. Remote access to industrial robotic systems is one of the application fields where robustness and reliability of the closed loop plays a significant role. Caused by the communication chain in the control loop, there are challenging constraints that can affect the stability and performance of a closed loop. One can consider a large number of difficulties in this type of control systems, for instance unknown delay and packet drop-out. There are already a large number of methods and approaches to handle issues in the NCS and because of increasing interest of the industry, many are still being developed to improve the features of the closed loops over communication networks. This paper summarizes the existing theory of the networked control systems under communication constraints and presents an H∞ synthesis for a simple plant. Finally the results are illustrated, discussed and validated using real measurements from a robotic system.
Industrialized countries have a growing need for telemedical structures for dealing with the growing numbers of patients caused by the development of the demographic structures. The progress of performant mobile devic...
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Industrialized countries have a growing need for telemedical structures for dealing with the growing numbers of patients caused by the development of the demographic structures. The progress of performant mobile devices and affordable medical sensors offer the possibility for building up a telemedical system using commercial “off-the-shelf” devices by using personal area communication technologies. In order to achieve a very generic and flexible system, a rule-based framework was developed. It is used to model individual behaviors of the system, depending on the patients disease, treatment and the used devices. It allows to add autonomous functions to the patients mobile device and allows data preprocessing and feedback to the user even without an active data communication to the medical center. In the Tele-Service-Center the framework can be used to filter and analyze data or adapt the treatment of each individual patient. The proposed system was implemented and tested in real life with patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with a very good feedback.
We developed a line coating robot, which will be used to apply markings on different surfaces like roads, factory floors or the ground of swimming pools. We implemented a navigation controller for the robot that uses ...
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We developed a line coating robot, which will be used to apply markings on different surfaces like roads, factory floors or the ground of swimming pools. We implemented a navigation controller for the robot that uses a laser sensor to move the robot precisely along a path that is marked with laser light. We build up a laser sensor ourselves to minimize costs and gain higher flexibility and compared this sensor to a commercial laser sensor in respect to robustness, resolution and performance.
The possibility of maintaining a group of pico-satellites in a bounded formation, using very low power electric propulsion, is presented. A model predictive controller is used to develop a simple control scheme that a...
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This work presents the RRT-planning algorithm adapted to a mobile car-like robot. Based on an short overview of the RRT-approach, all necessary components, adapted to target vehicle, are shown. A possible state space ...
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The possibility of maintaining a group of pico-satellites in a bounded formation, using very low power electric propulsion, is presented. A model predictive controller is used to develop a simple control scheme that a...
The possibility of maintaining a group of pico-satellites in a bounded formation, using very low power electric propulsion, is presented. A model predictive controller is used to develop a simple control scheme that avoids the need for on-line orbit determination. The control law, verified using a high fidelity propagator, is capable of maintaining a group of pico-satellites within a 1500 km region at an average ΔV of 2.5 m/s per month. In order to reduce the power requirements of the attitude and propulsion systems, a combined control is utilized. Attitude accuracy is shown to be better than 0.5 deg. The combined attitude-orbit control and the simplicity of the control law provide important advantage for implementation in a pico-satellite with extremely limited resources.
Environment monitoring of large areas requires for many in-situ pollutant measurements. An efficient approach which integrates biological and robotic systems is presented in this contribution. In this approach bees pr...
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Moving tumors, especially in the vicinity of lungs, pose a challenging problem in radiotherapy as healthy tissue should not be irradiated. We developed a system to compensate tumor motion with the robotic treatment co...
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(纸本)9781467356404
Moving tumors, especially in the vicinity of lungs, pose a challenging problem in radiotherapy as healthy tissue should not be irradiated. We developed a system to compensate tumor motion with the robotic treatment couch HexaPOD to improve treatment quality. The HexaPOD, carrying the patient, counteracts the tumor motion so that it is eliminated in the beams-eye-view of the linear accelerator. The focus of this work is on two control methods for the HexaPOD in order to realize reference tracking. The first method is a simple position control scheme to enable reference tracking. It is reformulated as second method to be adopted by a model predictive controller to better account for patient comfort and to maintain tracking accuracy. The performance of both methods is compared in experiments with real hardware using prerecorded patient trajectories and human volunteers whose breathing motion was compensated.
To analyze the performance of the formation system in response to inputs/disturbances from outside of the formation, we propose the notion of readiness, which describes the initial conditions of the formation in terms...
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(纸本)9781479901777
To analyze the performance of the formation system in response to inputs/disturbances from outside of the formation, we propose the notion of readiness, which describes the initial conditions of the formation in terms of a certain set of input space. A higher readiness means better initial conditions of the system with better performance in maintaining or recovering the original formation shape against the exogenous inputs/disturbances. Optimization method based on calculus of variations is used in the analysis for deriving the optimality conditions. Simulations modeled on both unicycle and car-like robots demonstrate the features and the potential applications of the proposed notion.
In this paper, we study the problem of making multiple agents spread out equidistantly on a circle. The proposed solution is a new Kuramoto-like model for multirobot coordination, in which the standard sine-terms have...
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(纸本)9781479901777
In this paper, we study the problem of making multiple agents spread out equidistantly on a circle. The proposed solution is a new Kuramoto-like model for multirobot coordination, in which the standard sine-terms have been replaced by cosines. This new interaction model enables the balanced deployment of agents on a circle, while only taking into account the local information of each agent's two neighbors on a cycle graph. This means that individual agents do not need to know the (relative) states of all agents nor how many other agents are indeed present in the network. We illustrate the operation of the proposed protocol in simulation as well as extend it to a nonlinear scenario by optimizing over the coupling weights.
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