Teleoperation in harsh environments has to tackle the problem of working with images of poor quality, as the visual feedback means for the human operator. This paper describes a procedure for image augmentation, based...
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Teleoperation in harsh environments has to tackle the problem of working with images of poor quality, as the visual feedback means for the human operator. This paper describes a procedure for image augmentation, based on the models of the scene elements, which are built from the images acquired in a previous phase, before the execution of the task, when the visual environment conditions are still good enough.
Robot manipulation through teleoperation requires some ability from a human operator. This requirement is stronger when the tridimensional scene is observed through a 2D monitor. This paper describes a telemanipulatio...
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Robot manipulation through teleoperation requires some ability from a human operator. This requirement is stronger when the tridimensional scene is observed through a 2D monitor. This paper describes a telemanipulation aiding system based on the superposition of a position correction component to the manual orders given by the human operator, through his gestures. This correction will enable the slave arm to move quicker when it is far from the target, while moving slower and more precisely when it operates close to the target, thus, the system behaves as if an external attraction force appear around the possible objects to be manipulated.
Using other agents' experiences and knowledge, a learning agent may learn faster, make fewer mistakes, and create some rides for unseen situations. These benefits will be gained if the learning agents know the are...
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Using other agents' experiences and knowledge, a learning agent may learn faster, make fewer mistakes, and create some rides for unseen situations. These benefits will be gained if the learning agents know the area of expertise and the expertness values of each other. In this paper, some Q-learning agents with different skills and expertness levels cooperate in learning. The agents use some criteria to judge others information and knowledge. Four expertness criterion, certainty and entropy measures are used to assign degrees of importance to others' Q-Tables. Effects of measuring these values based on their whole Q-Table, a portion of Q-Tables that reflects their proficiencies, and the states in Q-Tables on the learning quality are studied. Simple strategy sharing and two different weighted strategy-sharing methods are used to combine the acquired knowledge from different agents.
In multiagent reinforcement learning, inter-agent credit assignment is a fundamental problem, since a single scalar reinforcement signal is the only reliable feedback that teams of learning agents receive. This proble...
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In multiagent reinforcement learning, inter-agent credit assignment is a fundamental problem, since a single scalar reinforcement signal is the only reliable feedback that teams of learning agents receive. This problem is more critical in groups of independent learners with a joint task. In this research, it is assumed that a critic agent receives the environment feedback and assigns a proper credit to each agent using some measures. Three of such measures for a team of cooperative agents with a parallel and AND-type task are introduced. These measures somehow compare the agents' knowledge. One of these criteria, called normal expertness, is a non-relative measure while two other ones (certainty and relative normal expertness) are relative measure. It is experimentally shown that relative measures work better as they contain more information for the critic agent.
In this paper, an interactive simulation system for teeth cleaning is presented. This simulation system offers assistance for optimizing design and manufacturing of new toothbrushes. Data acquisition and pre-processin...
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This paper presents a new approach to optimized notion planning for industrial robot arms with six degrees of freedom in an online given 3D environment. The method is based on the A*-search algorithm and needs no esse...
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(纸本)078037004X
This paper presents a new approach to optimized notion planning for industrial robot arms with six degrees of freedom in an online given 3D environment. The method is based on the A*-search algorithm and needs no essential off-line computations. The algorithm works in an implicitly discrete configuration space. Collisions are detected in the Cartesian workspace by hierarchical distance computation based on the given CAD model. The collision-free result path is then optimized in execution time using rounding, a common command of every standard robot controller in the industry.
computer systems, which assists surgical procedures, are more and more leaving the status of being mere prototypes [1-4]. It is increasingly necessary for the surgeons and developers to ensure the quality, accuracy an...
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In the scanning electron microscope, many studies require micromanipulation tools that can be flexibly and comfortably used for the handling and positioning of objects ranging from a few millimeters down to fractions ...
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(纸本)0780365763
In the scanning electron microscope, many studies require micromanipulation tools that can be flexibly and comfortably used for the handling and positioning of objects ranging from a few millimeters down to fractions of microns. In the paper, some aspects of the control of small mobile microrobots by teleoperation are addressed facing the special behavior of their piezoelectric actuators and the challenge of handling tasks in ranges of very different orders of magnitude (100 nm-100 mm). In order to give the teleoperated tweezers a kind of low-level "intelligence", a control loop using the SEM as a sensor system is being developed. In different open-loop handling experiments, the employed 6D-mouse proves satisfactory as an intuitive user interface.
The handling of objects smaller than 1 mm is a great challenge for the robotics research community. Applications are the handling of biological cells, teleoperation under vacuum conditions (e.g. inside a scanning elec...
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The handling of objects smaller than 1 mm is a great challenge for the robotics research community. Applications are the handling of biological cells, teleoperation under vacuum conditions (e.g. inside a scanning electron microscope - SEM) or the manufacture of prototypes of microsystems. In this paper, some aspects of the control of small mobile microrobots by teleoperation are addressed. The employed 6D-mouse proves satisfactory as an intuitive user interface. A distributed control and planning architecture is presented as well as a closed-loop control approach basing on a sensor system that mainly consists of a standard SEM.
The Object Oriented control Architecture for Autonomy (O 2 CA 2 ) is a control architecture being developed at the University of Girona for the GARBI underwater vehicle. Conceived as a hybrid, it is organised in three...
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The Object Oriented control Architecture for Autonomy (O 2 CA 2 ) is a control architecture being developed at the University of Girona for the GARBI underwater vehicle. Conceived as a hybrid, it is organised in three layers (Deliberative, control Execution and Reactive) merging the deliberation mechanisms of planning with reactive behaviours in charge of controlling the robot. The aim of this paper is to provide an overall description of the whole architecture and an in depth description of the Reactive-layer. The concepts of the architecture have been tested with the simulation of a simple mission consisting of navigating through a sequence of way-points while avoiding contact with obstacles.
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