The problem of designing intelligent machines operating in uncertain environments with minimum supervision or interaction with a human operator is examined. The structure of an intelligent machine is defined to De the...
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The problem of designing intelligent machines operating in uncertain environments with minimum supervision or interaction with a human operator is examined. The structure of an intelligent machine is defined to De the structure of a Hierarchically Intelligent Control System, composed of three levels hierarchically ordered according to the principle of "increasing intelligence with decreasing precision," namely: the organization, the coordination and the hardware control levels. The behavior of such a machine may be managed by controls with special considerations and its "intelligence" is directly related to the derivation or a compatible measure that associates the intelligence of the higher levels with the precision of execution of the lower levels. It is shown that the concept of entropy as defined in Information Theory and Theoretical Thermodynamics is a sufficient analytic measure that unifies the treatment of all the levels of an intelligent machine as the mathematical problem of finding the right sequence of internal decisions and controls for a system structured in the order of intelligence and inverse order of precision (constraint) such that it minimizes its total entropy
Computer-aided design (CAD) has found a hew home in the control systems theory. Many control system's related problems such as analysis, design, estimation, filtering and simulation are now handled through CAD pac...
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Computer-aided design (CAD) has found a hew home in the control systems theory. Many control system's related problems such as analysis, design, estimation, filtering and simulation are now handled through CAD packages and languages. Through these software tools, even a novice computer programmer can take advantage of powerful computational and numerical algorithms for control systems problems. In this paper a CAD language for control and Kalman filtering will be presented. The language, called CONTROL. lab is written in FORTRAN/77 and can run under UNIX or VMS on a DEC 11/780 VAX computer system.
Fundamental factors limiting the widespread application of current robotic systems are the requirements for precise control of the robot task environment, custom-designed fixtures and end-effectors, and on-site contro...
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Fundamental factors limiting the widespread application of current robotic systems are the requirements for precise control of the robot task environment, custom-designed fixtures and end-effectors, and on-site control program development. These requirements arise because current robotic systems do not have an understanding of the robot task environment. Further, these systems are not able to react intelligently to non-deterministic events which occur during task execution. This paper examines the nature of understanding and its use to resolve uncertainty as it relates to robot task execution. Then a research plan which is aimed at the systematic incorporation of understanding into the robot task environment is outlined.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic systems, TAROS 2012 and the 15th Robot World Congress, FIRA 2012, held as joint conference in Bristol, UK, in August ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783642325274
ISBN:
(纸本)9783642325267
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic systems, TAROS 2012 and the 15th Robot World Congress, FIRA 2012, held as joint conference in Bristol, UK, in August 2012. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 25 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the field of autonomous robotics.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous roboticssystems, TAROS 2011, held in Sheffield, UK, in August/September 2011.;The 32 revised full papers presented toget...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783642232329
ISBN:
(纸本)9783642232312
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous roboticssystems, TAROS 2011, held in Sheffield, UK, in August/September 2011.;The 32 revised full papers presented together with 29 two-page abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. Among the topics addressed are robot navigation, robot learning, human-robot interaction, robot control, mobile robots, reinforcement learning, robot vehicles, swarm robotic systems, etc.
The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781846283345
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(纸本)9781852339821;9781849969895
The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies , new challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination. In some areas of manufacturing, the elements of a flexible manufacturing system form the key components of the process line. These key components are four-fold: a set of programmable robots and machines, an automated materia- handling system that allows parts to be freely routed and re-routed, a buffer storage system where parts and partly-assembled components can wait until required for further processing and assembly and finally, a supervisory control system. The technology employed to coordinate and control all these components as a working system is usually based on programmable logic controllers. The use of this automation hardware and software in manufacturing is designed to yield significant cost reductions and to enhance quality.
Intelligent micromachines, with dimensions ranging from a few millimeters down to hundreds of nanometers, are miniature systems capable of performing specific tasks autonomously at small scales. Enhancing the intellig...
Intelligent micromachines, with dimensions ranging from a few millimeters down to hundreds of nanometers, are miniature systems capable of performing specific tasks autonomously at small scales. Enhancing the intelligence of micromachines to tackle the uncertainty and variability in complex microenvironments has applications in minimally invasive medicine, bioengineering, water cleaning, analytical chemistry, and more. Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in the construction of intelligent micromachines, evolving from simple micromachines to soft, compound, reconfigurable, encodable, multifunctional, and integrated micromachines, as well as from individual to multiagent, multiscale, hierarchical, self-organizing, and swarm micromachines. The field leverages two important trends in robotics research—the miniaturization and intelligentization of machines—but a compelling combination of these two features has yet to be realized. The core technologies required to make such tiny machines intelligent include information media, transduction, processing, exchange, and energy supply, but embedding all of these functions into a system at the micro- or nanoscale is challenging. This article offers a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art technologies used to create intelligence for micromachines and provides insight into the construction of next-generation intelligent micromachines that can adapt to diverse scenarios for use in emerging fields.
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