Providing realistic opposing forces is critical to the successful use of military training simulations. Unfortunately, a number of issues can make the manual control of realistic opposing forces difficult or unattaina...
Providing realistic opposing forces is critical to the successful use of military training simulations. Unfortunately, a number of issues can make the manual control of realistic opposing forces difficult or unattainable, This paper explores these issues while discussing how Automatic Interactive Targets (AITs) can assist Training Exercise Controllers (TECs) in providing validated and realistic opposing forces in highly interactive situations. The features of the prototype Remote AIT Processing System (RAPS) are used to demonstrate how an AIT system can be designed to meet TEC requirements for automated entities, RAPS can provide remote control of AITs for existing or new systems while providing sufficient features to allow a TEC to appropriately select and control AITs for individual training exercises and crew proficiencies.
In this paper the control architecture of the PRIAMOS mobile robot system is presented. It consists of four layers which integrate reactive and reflexive components in such a way that the robot can combine fast reacti...
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In this paper the control architecture of the PRIAMOS mobile robot system is presented. It consists of four layers which integrate reactive and reflexive components in such a way that the robot can combine fast reaction to unexpected obstacles with predictive behaviour to known components in the environment. A solution for the problem of how to combine control layers which process information on different levels of abstraction and of increasing complexity is discussed. The reflexive part of the control architecture and the modification concerning the motion controller of the mobile robot which was necessary to apply the idea of reflexive navigation is described in more detail. The architecture presented allows motion tasks to be executed in partially unknown or changing environment in an efficient manner. Especially, the time-critical reflexive level is computationally less expensive than in previous approaches.
This is a tutorial paper on Petri nets. Petri nets, as a graphical and mathematical tool, provide a uniform environment for modelling, formal analysis, and design of discrete event systems. The main objective of this ...
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This is a tutorial paper on Petri nets. Petri nets, as a graphical and mathematical tool, provide a uniform environment for modelling, formal analysis, and design of discrete event systems. The main objective of this paper is to introduce the fundamental concepts of Petri nets to the researchers and practitioners, both from academia and industry, who are involved in the work in the areas of modelling and analysis of industrial types of systems, as well as those who may potentially be involved in these areas. The paper begins with an overview of applications of Petri nets, mostly industrial ones. Then, it proceeds with a description of Petri nets, properties, and analysis methods. The discussion of properties is put in the context of industrial applications. The analysis methods are illustrated using an example of a simple robotic assembly system. The performance analysis, using Petri nets, is discussed for deterministic and stochastic Petri nets. The presented techniques are illustrated by examples representing simple production systems. In addition, the paper introduces high-level Petri nets, fuzzy Petri nets, and temporal Petri nets. This is done in the context of application prospects. The paper also briefly discusses some of the reasons restricting the use of Petri nets, mostly, to academic institutions.
This paper describes autonomous mobile robot teams, performing tasks in unstructured environments. The behavior and the intelligence of the group is distributed, and the system does not include a central command base ...
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The paper presents a description of the state of the art of the application of object-oriented systems to power system problems. It presents a brief resume of the object-oriented concepts. It examines the application ...
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The paper presents a description of the state of the art of the application of object-oriented systems to power system problems. It presents a brief resume of the object-oriented concepts. It examines the application in three areas, namely: traditional software applications, database systems and knowledge-based systems. It also looks at all three stages of the use of object-oriented models in these three areas. The three stages are the conceptual model, the software structure model and the implementation model. It provides a set of conclusions as to future areas of applications of the object-oriented paradigm to power systems applications.
In this paper we outline the features of a cognitively compatible symbolic-connectionist architecture for complex data intensive time-critical domains especially in the diagnostic area. We examine how a symbolic-conne...
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This paper discusses a planner that generates automatically high-level programs (or plans) for inspecting mechanical parts with coordinate measuring machines. The system's input is a solid model of a toleranced pa...
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This paper discusses a planner that generates automatically high-level programs (or plans) for inspecting mechanical parts with coordinate measuring machines. The system's input is a solid model of a toleranced part, and the output a collection of setups, probes and probe orientations associated with the surface features to be inspected. The problem is formulated as state space search. The state contains a collection of inspection plans, represented as a set of 4-tuples of the form (setup, probe, probe direction, surface feature). The initial plans may be invalid, or unnecessarily expensive. The state evolves through the application of operators, which impose geometric and optimization constraints so as to produce a valid and nearly optimal plan. The paper discusses the planner architecture and implementation, and presents experimental results.< >
This paper presents a novel cognitive architecture for simulated autonomous robots in an artificial world. The design principle of the architecture enables the robotic system to both react to the world and perform pre...
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This paper presents a novel cognitive architecture for simulated autonomous robots in an artificial world. The design principle of the architecture enables the robotic system to both react to the world and perform premeditated actions. The cognitive architecture is a modular structure composed of a number of multilevel interconnected components, each with distributed, module-specific memory. The modular structure allows for simple portability of the architecture across a variety of robotic platforms. The behavior of the robot is based on the automatic creation of composite behavior from a set of predefined atomic behaviors. Facts about the world are discovered as the robot performs its tasks. An autonomous robot embedded within an artificial world (named Machina Cogitans) is equipped with this architecture, and a number of experiments are presented.< >
To be cost effective and highly precise, many industrial assembly robots have only four degrees of freedom (DOF) plus a binary pneumatic gripper. Such robots commonly permit parts to be rotated only about a vertical a...
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To be cost effective and highly precise, many industrial assembly robots have only four degrees of freedom (DOF) plus a binary pneumatic gripper. Such robots commonly permit parts to be rotated only about a vertical axis. However it is often necessary to reorient parts about other axes prior to assembly. In this paper the authors describe a way to orient parts about an arbitrary axis by introducing a rotating bearing between the jaws of a simple gripper. Based on this mechanism, the authors are developing a rapidly configurable vision-based system for feeding parts. In this system, a camera determines initial part pose; the robot then reorients the part to achieve a desired final pose. The authors have implemented a prototype version in their laboratory using a commercially-available robot system.< >
In this paper, an approach is presented for designing a robot controller to integrate path planning and motion execution. Instead of following an exactly planned geometric path, which cannot be easily modified to deal...
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In this paper, an approach is presented for designing a robot controller to integrate path planning and motion execution. Instead of following an exactly planned geometric path, which cannot be easily modified to deal with uncertainties, a robot realizes its motion under the guidance of a sequence of grossly selected crucial points called subgoals. A fuzzy model is used for on-line controlling the robot to pass through the subgoals smoothly. With the help of heuristics for optimal motion control, the rule base can be developed. Such a concept provides a control method in real time as well as a possibility of integrating sensor data for the subgoal-guided motion.< >
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