In biology, microelectronics and microsystem technology many operations are today performed by hand which might also be done by micromanipulation robots. Several prototypes of such robots have already been built and t...
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In biology, microelectronics and microsystem technology many operations are today performed by hand which might also be done by micromanipulation robots. Several prototypes of such robots have already been built and tested, and now higher-level problems have to be tackled: control systems with adequate computational power, user-interfaces and planning systems for micromanipulation systems have to be implemented and tested. Special attention must be paid to the requirements of micromanipulation, which differs greatly in some aspects from conventional manipulation. This paper discusses the information processing aspects of the control system of a micromanipulation station. The micromanipulation station consists of a microassembly robot working under a light-optical microscope, a CCD camera and an XY-stage. The requirements for the controlcomputer system are high: assembly and execution planning has to be done in order to perform fully-automated microassembly, a vision system is necessary, and the control of the microrobots and the peripherals connected to the system demand high I/O power. The paper also shows a user interface to access the system resources in a user-friendly way and presents a sketch of the planning and the control algorithms
Automation of highly precise microassembly steps will make it easier to realize low cost microsystems. For this, a microrobot-based microassembly desktop station is being developed at the University of Karlsruhe. In t...
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Automation of highly precise microassembly steps will make it easier to realize low cost microsystems. For this, a microrobot-based microassembly desktop station is being developed at the University of Karlsruhe. In this paper, we suggest a common microassembly model for a computer-aided microassembly planning-which is based on geometric reasoning-and discuss its components in detail. The feasibility criteria for the generation of feasible assembly sequences and the optimization criteria for selecting the optimal assembly plan are described. For both these planning steps, the algorithms for an automatic procedure have been developed and implemented. For stations employing several microrobots, a method for decomposition and allocation of an assembly plan is suggested. Finally, we discuss the structure of the station's planning system.
Surgery in the craniomaxillofacial area is complex. Planning a surgical operation can help the surgeon enhance the quality of the operation. On the other hand, the benefit of a planning phase cannot be realized if the...
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A method is presented for the model-based redesign of enterprises. It consists of two main steps, the initialization step and the optimization step. During the initialization step, the processes are modelled and analy...
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A method is presented for the model-based redesign of enterprises. It consists of two main steps, the initialization step and the optimization step. During the initialization step, the processes are modelled and analysed. During the optimization step, the optimal configuration is found for the possible modifications of the processes. Emphasis is placed on the process analysis. The proposed approach is based on activity chains which describe the set of activities needed for the achievement of a given gear, and their execution order necessary to guarantee a low processing time. An algorithm is presented for filtering such activity chains from an enterprise model. It is based on graph theory and corresponds to the solution of an optimization problem, whereby the sum of weights of ail edges belonging to the solution graph should be maximized under some given constraints. Because of the high complexity of the problem, some complexity-reducing measures are presented, measures that arise from the earlier problem analysis.
One of the major goals in designing learning robots is to let these robots develop useful skills over time. These skills are not only related to physical actions of the robot, but also to the coordination of activitie...
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One of the major goals in designing learning robots is to let these robots develop useful skills over time. These skills are not only related to physical actions of the robot, but also to the coordination of activities, communication with humans, and active sensing. Throughout this paper, the interdependency between these different kinds of skills is analyzed. For the case of elementary action skills and coordination skills, methods for inegration of skill application and refinement are developed. It is shown that this integration has the potential to support long-term learning and autonomous experimentation.
One of the many features needed to support the activities of autonomous systems is the ability to plan motion. This enables robots to move in their environment securely and to accomplish given tasks. Unfortunately, th...
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One of the many features needed to support the activities of autonomous systems is the ability to plan motion. This enables robots to move in their environment securely and to accomplish given tasks. Unfortunately, the control loop comprising sensing, planning, and acting has not yet been closed for robots in dynamic environments. One reason involves the long execution times of the motion planning component. A solution for this problem is offered by the use of highly parallel computation. Thus, an important task is the parallelization of existing motion planning algorithms for robots so that they are suitable for highly parallel computation. In several cases, completely new algorithms have to be designed, so that a parallelization is feasible. In this survey, we review recent approaches to motion planning using parallel computation. As a classification scheme, we use the structure given by the different approaches to the robot's motion planning. For each approach, the available parallel processing methods are discussed. Each approach is assigned a unique class. Finally, for each research work referenced, a list of keywords is given.
Robots have been a subject of research for almost half a century. In order to make robots more versatile they must be able to operate in a semi-structured work place where unforeseen events occur and where sensor data...
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Robots have been a subject of research for almost half a century. In order to make robots more versatile they must be able to operate in a semi-structured work place where unforeseen events occur and where sensor data are incomplete. An entire research community has been working on this problem and many unique autonomous and so-called intelligent robots have been conceived and built. Most of these efforts are concerned with robots that operate in the macroworld where they take on chores that could also be handled by humans. However, there is the macroworld in which manipulation and handling tasks are very difficult and for which a human has no tools and where the work area is so small that fine manual manipulation is almost impossible. This paper is concerned with autonomous robots that can operate in a microworld, where microassembly operations, microsurgery or integrated circuit testing and repair is done. For independent operations, these robots need special sensors and an efficient computer architecture that hosts the planner and executor. There are also special drive systems and effecters necessary for micromotions and micromanipulations, respectively. An attempt is made to describe these components and the problems encountered in configuring them to a microrobot. As an example of advanced microrobots, the design and functions of several autonomous microrobots of the University of Karlsruhe are shown;they employ different locomotion and subject handling principles. The paper also includes a discussion of the typical operating problems caused by the microworld and of future research that has to be done to conceive and build efficient microrobots.
This paper discusses the significance of communication between individual agents that are embedded into learning Multi-Agent Systems. For several learning tasks occurring within a Multi-Agent System, communication act...
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In this paper we present a method for virtual 3D cutting operations in 3D tomographic data. When cutting interactively the user specifies a serie of 3D cutting points and correponding cut depths on the surface of the ...
Simulations of static and dynamic aspects of the functionality of the human body are getting more important as the complexity of operations increases. The preoperative planning of maxillofacial operations like the rep...
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