This paper deals with the development of strengthening steel structures before the initiation of fatigue crack by externally bonded carbon fiber (CF) sheets using Vacuum assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VaRTM) techniq...
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The automation of experiments in life sciences and chemistry has significantly advanced with the development of various instruments and AI technologies. However, achieving full laboratory automation, where experiments...
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Joint failure problem in humanoid robots could often occur in real application. An approach for fault recovery is performing gesture reconfiguration on a redundant manipulator of humanoid robots. In this study, we pro...
Joint failure problem in humanoid robots could often occur in real application. An approach for fault recovery is performing gesture reconfiguration on a redundant manipulator of humanoid robots. In this study, we proposed a gesture reconfiguration method based on bacteria foraging optimization algorithm. After joint failure, we locked the failed joint in place and used the BFOA-based gesture reconfiguration to find a new suitable gesture configuration for the remaining joints. We demonstrated the gesture reconfiguration from joint failure on the Namo robot, which is a semi-humanoid robot for performing emblematic gestures as a receptionist robot. Four emblematic gestures, including the Thai greeting, salute, bye, and side invite gestures, were demonstrated. The experimental results showed that the BFOA-based gesture reconfiguration could generate a suitable gesture configuration for all four gestures; the resulting gestures are close to the original gestures. We investigated further on tuning the number of population size in BFOA. We varied the number of population size as 15, 25, 50, and 100 and found that although the larger population size could result in better gestures than the smaller size, the improvement in gesture similarity were not significant so it may be more efficient to use the smaller size. This could be owing to the performance of bacteria foraging optimization algorithm.
We introduce Repetition-Reduction network (RRNet) for resource-constrained depth estimation, offering significantly improved efficiency in terms of computation, memory and energy consumption. The proposed method is ba...
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Introduction: Overhead tasks increase the risk of work related musculoskeletal disorders to industrial workers. A shoulder supporting exoskeleton with adjustable and angle dependent torque (referred to as shoulderX in...
Introduction: Overhead tasks increase the risk of work related musculoskeletal disorders to industrial workers. A shoulder supporting exoskeleton with adjustable and angle dependent torque (referred to as shoulderX in this paper for brevity) was designed and built at the University of California Berkeley Human Engineering and robotics Laboratory for workers performing overhead tasks. shoulderX was designed specifically to reduce the exposure to large muscle exertion forces on the shoulder complex from overhead work. Methods: We evaluated shoulderX by measuring the muscle activation of the upper trapezius (UT), anterior deltoid (AD), triceps long head (TR), and infraspinatus (IF) during static and dynamic overhead tasks. Thirteen male subjects with experience in the construction or manufacturing industries were recruited to perform overhead tasks using light (.45 kg) and heavy (2.25 kg) weight tools with four exoskeleton support levels (0, 8.5, 13.0, 20.0 Nm peak torque). Results: During all conditions, the wearer’s shoulder flexor muscle activity of UT, AD were reduced with increasing strength of shoulderX by up to 80%. Subjects unanimously preferred the use of shoulderX over the unassisted condition for all task types (static and dynamic overhead tasks) and tool weights (.45 kg and 2.25 kg). Conclusion: shoulderX reduces the wearer’s primary muscle activity in overhead static and dynamic work and results in a more desirable and balanced pattern of shoulder complex activation. This investigation indicates that shoulderX reduces the risk of work related shoulder injuries during overhead tasks.
Human emotion recognition is an important factor for social robots. In previous research, emotion recognizers with many modalities have been studied, but there are several problems that make recognition rates lower wh...
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In hierarchical planning for Markov decision processes (MDPs), temporal abstraction allows planning with macro-actions that take place at different time scale in form of sequential composition. In this paper, we propo...
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