A method for optimization of continuous nonlinear functions is introduced. Seed Throwing Optimization is a probabilistic metaheuristic. It has roots in hill climbing and the evolutionary computation like technique har...
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A method for optimization of continuous nonlinear functions is introduced. Seed Throwing Optimization is a probabilistic metaheuristic. It has roots in hill climbing and the evolutionary computation like technique harmony search. The relationship to these algorithms is shown in this paper. Our method is tested in a benchmark and compared to other metaheuristics. Seed Throwing Optimization is a randomized gradient ascent with multi initial states and the possibility to explore only paths which have shown to be good. We also developed an efficient method for implementing gradient ascent without using a gradient.
In this paper, a tactile sensing system for an anthropomorphic robot hand is presented. The tactile sensing system is designed as a construction kit making it very versatile. The sensor data preprocessing is embedded ...
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In this paper, a tactile sensing system for an anthropomorphic robot hand is presented. The tactile sensing system is designed as a construction kit making it very versatile. The sensor data preprocessing is embedded into the hand's hardware structure and is fully integrated. The sensor system is able to gather tactile pressure profiles and to measure vibrations in the sensor's cover. Additionally to the introduction of the hardware, the signal processing and the classification of the acquired sensor data will be explained in detail. These algorithms make the tactile sensing system capable to detect contact points, to classify contact patterns and to detect slip conditions during object manipulation and grasping.
This paper focuses on the simplification of the on-line programming process of industrial robots. It presents in detail the input part of a modular on-line programming environment presented as overview in [1]. Main co...
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This paper focuses on the simplification of the on-line programming process of industrial robots. It presents in detail the input part of a modular on-line programming environment presented as overview in [1]. Main concept of this programming environment is an intuitive way of moving and teaching robots, while supporting the user with assisting algorithms like collision avoidance and automatic path planning. Goal is the combination of different approaches from tele-operation, programming by demonstration, Virtual Reality and off-line programming, and to reuse them in a new fashion on-line on the shop-floor. This paper presents some ideas and concepts, how input devices and strategies for robot programming could look like and how to use them to set up an intuitive manual motion control of the robot.
In this paper, a novel path planning method is presented and discussed. The method has its application in tasks like human-robot-interaction and cooperation. Thus special boundary conditions, i.e., real-time behaviour...
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In this paper, a novel path planning method is presented and discussed. The method has its application in tasks like human-robot-interaction and cooperation. Thus special boundary conditions, i.e., real-time behaviour and safety, are of great interest. According to the presented results, cognitive industrial robotics without safety fences and a great autonomy are on their way to become part of our everyday life.
In this paper we propose a new diversity measure based on the correlation of bit strings for the analysis of genetic programming (GP) experiments. The diversity measure has been applied to analyse the impact of prunin...
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In this paper we propose a new diversity measure based on the correlation of bit strings for the analysis of genetic programming (GP) experiments. The diversity measure has been applied to analyse the impact of pruning on the diversity of a population during genetic programming and its relation to the convergence time of the fitness function. To show the usability of the proposed diversity measure a GP experiment is introduced where simulated Jasmine robots have to learn a collision avoidance behaviour to find their way through a maze. A full analysis of this experiment is given with different fixed pruning strategies in respect to the population diversity and fitness. The GP has been done on behaviour-based robot controllers implemented in MDL2isin. MDL2isin has the advantage that it provides a very compact bit string representation of the control programme, which can be used for diversity analysis.
Today, femoral shaft fractures are usually stabilized by means of intramedullary nails. This video presents the development of a telemanipulator system, which, by supporting the fracture reduction process, aims at ach...
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Today, femoral shaft fractures are usually stabilized by means of intramedullary nails. This video presents the development of a telemanipulator system, which, by supporting the fracture reduction process, aims at achieving reliable operation results with high reduction accuracies. First, we present a system using 2D X-ray images as base information for the surgeon to guide the reduction. We show the advantages but also the limitations of this approach, which finally led to the development of a telemanipulator system that is based on 3D imaging data instead.
One of the main aspects of the dasiaSYMBRIONpsila and dasiaREPLICATORpsila projects is that the robots can aggregate to form a multi-robot organism. For this reason the control mechanisms have to be able to control a ...
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One of the main aspects of the dasiaSYMBRIONpsila and dasiaREPLICATORpsila projects is that the robots can aggregate to form a multi-robot organism. For this reason the control mechanisms have to be able to control a single robot, a swarm of robots or an aggregated collective organism. To break down the complexity of development and to take the interaction with the environment and other robots into account, bio-inspired and evolutionary concepts are applied. In this paper we describe the underlying software architecture for the projects to enable different controller types, evolution and learning.
In this paper we present the development of a new self-reconfigurable robotic platform for performing on-line and on-board evolutionary experiments. The designed platform can work as an autonomous swarm robot and can ...
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In this paper we present the development of a new self-reconfigurable robotic platform for performing on-line and on-board evolutionary experiments. The designed platform can work as an autonomous swarm robot and can undergo collective morphogenesis to actuate in different morphogenetic structures. The platform includes a dedicated power management, rich sensor mechanisms for on-board fitness measurement as well as very powerful distributed computational system to run learning and evolutionary algorithms. The whole development is performed within several large European projects and is open-hardware and open-software.
The main problems in intra-medullary nailing of femoral shaft-fractures are leg-length discrepancies and rotational differences with an incidence of 2-18% and 20-40% respectively. These may lead to severe postoperativ...
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