Extensible Soft Robots (ESRs) have increasingly attracted attention, especially in tight and complex environments, owing to their dexterity, and wide reachable workspaces relative to their volume. The existing actuati...
This paper identifies and addresses the problems with naively combining (reinforcement) learning-based controllers and state estimators for robotic in-hand manipulation. Specifically, we tackle the challenging task of...
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This research paper compares two neural-network-based adaptive controllers, namely the Hybrid Deep Learning Neural Network Controller (HDLNNC) and the Adaptive Model Predictive Control with Nonlinear Prediction and Li...
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Zonotopes have become a widely used tool in control design, demonstrating their effectiveness in various applications ranging from state estimation to explicit model predictive control. However, the traditional use of...
Zonotopes have become a widely used tool in control design, demonstrating their effectiveness in various applications ranging from state estimation to explicit model predictive control. However, the traditional use of zonotopes is limited by a set certain geometric shapes that restrict the range of state sets that can be considered. This paper proposes a novel approach to control design using constrained zonotopes that can encode arbitrary polytopes. We present a propagation scheme and an affine approximation of the exact control law for this representation, and discuss issues related to center identification for constrained zonotopes. A fast method for detecting set membership is also proposed based on lifting the constrained zonotopes into a higher dimensional space. The proposed method extends the range of shapes that can be considered in control design and offers a promising alternative to the limitations of regular zonotopes. It has the potential for wide-ranging impact in various areas of control, providing a valuable tool for solving complex control problems.
This article presents a novel telemanipulation system to advance aerial manipulation in dynamic and unstructured environments. The proposed system features not only a haptic device, but also a virtual reality (VR) int...
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This article presents a novel telemanipulation system to advance aerial manipulation in dynamic and unstructured environments. The proposed system features not only a haptic device, but also a virtual reality (VR) interface that provides real-time 3-D displays of the robot’s workspace, as well as a haptic guidance to its remotely located operator. To realize this, multiple sensors, namely, a LiDAR, cameras, and inertial measurement units (IMUs) are utilized. For processing the acquired sensory data, pose estimation pipelines are devised for industrial objects of known and unknown geometries. We further propose an active learning (AL) pipeline in order to increase the sample efficiency of a pipeline component that relies on deep neural networks (DNNs)-based object detection. All of these algorithms jointly address various challenges encountered during the execution of perception tasks in industrial scenarios. In the experiments, exhaustive ablation studies are provided to validate the proposed pipelines. Methodologically, these results commonly suggest how an awareness of the algorithms’ own failures and uncertainty (“introspection”) can be used to tackle the encountered problems. In addition, outdoor experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the overall system in enhancing aerial manipulation capabilities. In particular, with flight campaigns over days and nights, from spring to winter, and with different users and locations, we demonstrate more than 70 robust executions of pick-and-place, force application, and peg-in-hole tasks with the DLR cable-suspended aerial manipulator (SAM). As a result, we show the viability of the proposed system in future industrial applications. The project website can be accessed at https://***/view/vr-sam/ .
This paper discusses challenges, limitations and problems arising in currently employed acoustic emission testing systems, sensors and signal processing algorithms. Main factors influencing and compromising accuracy a...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) based smart healthcare systems can significantly enhance the quality of patient care. These systems can enable healthcare providers to monitor patient conditions in real time. IoT-based sm...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) based smart healthcare systems can significantly enhance the quality of patient care. These systems can enable healthcare providers to monitor patient conditions in real time. IoT-based smart healthcare systems have the potential to revolutionize the way we provide care. Anomaly detection is crucial in IoT-based smart healthcare systems due to numerous reasons. It plays a dominant role in proactive health-care analysis, especially in brain diseases. In brain Magnetic Res-onance Imaging (MRI), anomaly detection helps in identifying several abnormalities, such as cysts, strokes, infections, vascular and developmental malformations, and neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis. The existing approaches of brain MRI anomaly detection, and anomaly detection in IoT-based smart healthcare systems utilizes static AI models. Conventional AI based models can be trained once and cannot tackle the changes in real time. The population health and the nature of disease consistently change, and conventional AI based models can't adapt to those changes. Conventional AI based system cannot tackle the changes caused by variations like diseases and public health and become ineffective over the time. Self-aware AI models can address these issues as they can learn and adapt to their environment. Self-aware AI-based systems have the potential to change lives through their ability to learn, adapt, and improve over time. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach to anomaly detection based on self-aware AI in IoT-based smart healthcare systems. Additionally, an algorithm for anomaly detection in MRI images, namely Self-Aware AI based Anomaly Detection (SAAD) is proposed. Our proposed system can detect anomalies in brain MRI images. We achieved 98% accuracy and 0.99 precision and recall, outperforming the existing approaches. The proposed self-aware AI based anomaly detection framework for IoT-based smart healthcare systems has the potential
This paper studies the perception of robot intelligence for a manipulator that shares its workspace with a human operator, while the two execute independent tasks. Four different motion planning algorithms were employ...
This paper studies the perception of robot intelligence for a manipulator that shares its workspace with a human operator, while the two execute independent tasks. Four different motion planning algorithms were employed to plan the robot motion in four subsequent experimental sets for 48 participants, and the order with which these algorithms were used was changed, obtaining all possible combinations. While guaranteeing safety, each of the four algorithms exhibited a different level of adaptability and reactivity, in terms of real-time motion planning abilities and of speed reduction based on heart rate feedback. We analyzed how perceived intelligence was influenced by the employed algorithm, by the order of execution and by the previous experience of the participants working with robots. In conclusion, perceived intelligence resulted being significantly lower in the first experimental set compared to the following ones, which showed a positive effect of habituation on perceived intelligence. On the other hand, neither the use of different motion planning algorithms nor the previous participants’ experience significantly influenced perceived intelligence.
Soft-growing robots are promising for a variety of applications, such as navigating and inspecting confined and challenging environments. These robots can elongate up to tens of meters and have morphological adaptatio...
Soft-growing robots are promising for a variety of applications, such as navigating and inspecting confined and challenging environments. These robots can elongate up to tens of meters and have morphological adaptation and tip-extension capabilities. However, evaluating their performance across various design aspects or environmental conditions can be difficult due to their long manufacturing times. In this paper, we present a computationally efficient dynamics model derived using the Euler-Lagrange equation for a class of soft-growing robots known as “vine robots.” alongside a PD feedback control with gravity compensation. We have performed simulation experiments to validate both the dynamics model and the PD feedback control. The results of these experiments can provide valuable insights for future model-based feedback control design and simulation-based performance evaluation.
Seven-degree-of-freedom redundant manipulators with link offset have many advantages,including obvious geometric significance and suitability for configuration *** configuration is similar to that of the experimental ...
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Seven-degree-of-freedom redundant manipulators with link offset have many advantages,including obvious geometric significance and suitability for configuration *** configuration is similar to that of the experimental module manipulator(EMM)in the Chinese Space Station Remote Manipulator ***,finding the analytical solution of an EMM on the basis of arm angle parameterization is *** study proposes a high-precision,semi-analytical inverse method for ***,the analytical inverse kinematic solution is established based on joint angle ***,the analytical inverse kinematic solution for a non-offset spherical-roll-spherical(SRS)redundant manipulator is derived based on arm angle *** approximate solution of the EMM is calculated in accordance with the relationship between the joint angles of the EMM and the SRS ***,the error is corrected using a numerical method through the analytical inverse solution based on joint angle *** selecting the stride and termination condition,the precise inverse solution is computed for the EMM based on arm angle ***,case solutions confirm that this method has high precision,and the arm angle parameterization method is superior to the joint angle parameterization method in terms of parameter selection.
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