At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured envi...
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(纸本)9783540713630;9783642425929
At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. Interacting with, assi- ing, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The goal of the new series of Springer Tracts in Advanced robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their signi cance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments stimulates exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contributes to further advancement of this rapidly growing eld. The edited volume by Manuel Ferre, Martin Buss, Rafael Aracil, Claudio M- chiorri and Carlos Balaguer is focused on the most recent advances in telerobotics, a technology that deals with the inclusion of a human operator in the control loop of a remote robot. Telerobotics encompasses an area at the crossroads of several scienti c disciplines such as mechatronics, control, communication, computers, sensor-based recognition, multimodality and even teleoperation through Internet.
This paper addresses the motion synchronisation problem in shared virtual environments in the presence of communication delays. More precisely, we consider the case of multiple users interacting with the same dynamics...
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This paper addresses the motion synchronisation problem in shared virtual environments in the presence of communication delays. More precisely, we consider the case of multiple users interacting with the same dynamics. Unlike the conventional synchronization, the technological attempt we are interested in pursues a more robust and better synchronization that gives an almost concurrent evolution of motions between the distributed systems in absolute time-frame (earth's time). Physically, the existence of time delay prevents immediate information exchange, which disables concurrent motions between the distributed systems. Using the delay information available, the proposed controller preserves natural local dynamics and compensate for de-synchronization error caused by mismatched initial conditions. Various robustness issues, like the delay margin or the stability boundaries computation in the space defined by the controllers' parameters are also presented. Finally, simulation tests are conducted in order to validate the considered methodology.
As the anatomic structures, for example bone thickness, are different and the destruction of the membrane lining the inner ear can lead to a damage of organ functions, for example deafness or vertigo, the protection o...
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As the anatomic structures, for example bone thickness, are different and the destruction of the membrane lining the inner ear can lead to a damage of organ functions, for example deafness or vertigo, the protection of soft tissue structures behind the ablated bone in skull base surgery is mandatory. Consequently, a safer and more accurate Cochlear Implantation technology need to be developed urgently. For the detection of the boundary between soft tissue and bone the laser bone ablation system which was based on the combination of laser, robotics, coaxial monitoring and vision navigation was developed for a micro surgery at the skull base. Through this the laser is guided across the ablation area by vision navigation technologies. In this paper our laser bone ablation system and the first results of the boundary detection are described.
Several path-planning algorithms for mobile robots have been introduced. Proper architectures for mobile robots to implement the path-planning algorithms are also of interest. If the mobile robots are to perform compl...
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Aiming at the uncertainty of sonar data in the problem of sonar-based target differentiation for mobile robot, the paper firstly presents a hierarchical reduction approach to reduce a sonar data set based on rough set...
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The research of self-location and map building among some entirely unknown environments is an important and popular subject of intelligent mobile robots. Someone compared it to the problem of chicken and egg. But the ...
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Robots are complex mechatronics systems where several electric drives are employed to control the movement of articulated structures. In industrial environments they must perform tasks with rapidity and accuracy in or...
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Information acquired in map building presents characteristics of uncertainty, imprecision and even high conflict, especially in the course of building grid map using sonar. Here a new method of information fusion - DS...
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Information acquired in map building presents characteristics of uncertainty, imprecision and even high conflict, especially in the course of building grid map using sonar. Here a new method of information fusion - DSmT (Dezert-Smarandache theory) recently developed from DST and Bayesian theory was introduced to apply to managing and dealing with this uncertainty. Aiming to static environment, classic DSm mathematic modal was established by constructing the general basic belief assignment function, so that the global evidence grid map is built by applying the classic DSm rule. Pioneer II virtual mobile robot served as an experiment platform. By comparing the numbers of acquiring-information spot, the quality of grid map building and the time in need of finishing the global map building, better fusion results than that with DST are gotten. Especially when dealing with high conflictive information from sonar grid map building, DSmT was more effective and successful than DST. In short, this study not only found a new method for building map under static environment, but also supplied with a theory foundation for us to further apply hybrid DSmT to dynamic unknown environment and multi-robots' building map together
We study the effects of a moving reference frame on the classification of different mental tasks in a brain-machine interface (BMI). We use the band powers and power differences of the electroencephalogram (EEG) signa...
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We study the effects of a moving reference frame on the classification of different mental tasks in a brain-machine interface (BMI). We use the band powers and power differences of the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from 8 surface electrodes during 5 pre-determined mental tasks as the features for the neural network (NN) mental task classifier. We compare the NN classifier performance when the BMI user is visually subjected to a non-moving (static) reference frame (SRF) and to a moving (dynamic) reference frame (DRF) while performing the mental tasks. Results consistently show the degradation of classification accuracy for mental tasks when the user is in a DRF. Furthermore, we observe that mental tasks that require more focus are more sensitive to the SRF-DRF switch than those tasks which need less concentration when performed
This paper proposes an autonomous control for parallel-connected uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems based on electrical power system interrelations. The controllable variables are the output voltage phase angl...
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This paper proposes an autonomous control for parallel-connected uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems based on electrical power system interrelations. The controllable variables are the output voltage phase angle and magnitude. Relation between active current and output voltage phase angle is derived from a synchronous machine model. Electrical power systems suggest that voltage regulation and reactive current can be proportionally related to yield another control equation. The resulted control scheme is very simple and only requires an output current measurement to provide a voltage reference signal locally in synchronism with other UPSs without communication signal exchange. A small-signal model represents the entire system and constitutes proof of its stability. Feasibility is confirmed by an experimental setup with three UPSs connected in parallel with different output power ratings. In the experiments, voltage limiters (1%) are employed and three cases are verified. Under all conditions, the results show excellent performance in terms of stability, and active and reactive load sharing.
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