This paper introduces 'Ground Following Locomotion' as a means to traverse rough terrain inspired by pill bugs(Armadillidium vulgare). The locomotion of pill bugs is unique and effective on irregular terrain. ...
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3D mapping and expression of the environment are very important with various applications in many different fields. Among the various sensors (vision sensor, infrared sensor, and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) se...
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In recent year, much progress has been made in outdoor 3D mapping. However, 3D mapping in real time is still a daunting challenge in urban environment. This paper addresses the problem of 3D mapping from 3D laser scan...
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This paper introduces 'Ground Following Locomotion' as a means to traverse rough terrain inspired by pill bugs (Armadillidium vulgare). The locomotion of pill bugs is unique and effective on irregular terrain....
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This paper introduces 'Ground Following Locomotion' as a means to traverse rough terrain inspired by pill bugs (Armadillidium vulgare). The locomotion of pill bugs is unique and effective on irregular terrain. Pill bugs bend their bodies actively along with the terrain to maintain traction force and the behavior enables them to overcome irregular terrain easily. This biological principle can be applied to small robots to overcome rough terrain by adjusting relative positions of body modules. Analysis and simulations will be conducted to compare performance of adjustable joint model (ground following locomotion) and fixed joint model and the results will show that the performance of ground following locomotion is effective to overcome vertical obstacles. The principle described here could be applied to small ground robots to improve mobility on rough terrains.
This paper presents a novel interval type-2 fuzzy logic control architecture for flocking system when the system has noisy sensor measurements. The traditional type-1 fuzzy logic controller (FLC) using precise type-1 ...
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This paper presents a novel interval type-2 fuzzy logic control architecture for flocking system when the system has noisy sensor measurements. The traditional type-1 fuzzy logic controller (FLC) using precise type-1 fuzzy sets cannot fully model and handle the uncertainties of sensor data. However, type-2 FLC using type-2 fuzzy sets with a footprint of uncertainty (FOU) produces better performances under noisy environments. In this paper, therefore, we present a reactive control architecture for flocking algorithm that is based on interval type 2 FLC to implement the flocking behaviors consisting separation, obstacle avoidance, and velocity matching behaviors. The type-2 based control system could cope with the uncertainties of noisy sensor measurements and resulted in good performances that outperformed the type-1 FLC.
Robot learning from demonstration focuses on algorithms that enable a robot to learn a policy from demonstrations performed by a teacher, typically a human expert. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of two...
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Robot learning from demonstration focuses on algorithms that enable a robot to learn a policy from demonstrations performed by a teacher, typically a human expert. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of two learning from demonstration algorithms, Interactive Reinforcement Learning and Behavior Networks. We evaluate the performance of these algorithms using a humanoid robot and discuss the relative advantages and drawbacks of these methods with respect to learning time, number of demonstrations, ease of implementation and other metrics. Our results show that Behavior Networks rely on a greater degree of domain knowledge and programmer expertise, requiring very precise definitions for behavior pre- and post-conditions. By contrast Interactive RL requires a relatively simple implementation based only on the robot's sensor data and actions. However, Behavior Networks leverage the pre-coded knowledge to effectively reduce learning time and the required number of human interactions to learn the task.
Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) have gained a significant amount of research lately, with a number of universities and industry sponsors paving the way with micro flying robots to perform Intelligence, Surveillance and R...
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There has been meaningful research into the development of 3D world modeling techniques that are important requisite for intelligent vehicle navigation. In this paper we describe a 3D probabilistic voxel mapping proce...
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We proposed the Heterogeneous Ant Colony Optimization (HACO) algorithm to solve the global path planning problem for autonomous mobile robot in the previous paper. The HACO algorithm was modified and optimized to solv...
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We proposed the Heterogeneous Ant Colony Optimization (HACO) algorithm to solve the global path planning problem for autonomous mobile robot in the previous paper. The HACO algorithm was modified and optimized to solv...
We proposed the Heterogeneous Ant Colony Optimization (HACO) algorithm to solve the global path planning problem for autonomous mobile robot in the previous paper. The HACO algorithm was modified and optimized to solve the global path planning problem unlike the conventional ACO algorithm which was proposed to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) or Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). However, there is a common shortcoming in the ACO algorithms for global path planning, including HACO algorithm. Ants carry out the exploration task relatively well around the starting point. On the other hand, they are hindered in their work as they approached the goal point, because they are attracted by the intensity of heuristic value and the accumulated pheromone while the ACO algorithm works. As a result, they have a strong tendency not to explore and most of them follow the path that found in the beginning of the search. This could cause the local optimal solutions. Thus, we propose a way to solve this problem in this paper. It is the Bilateral Cooperative Exploration (BCE) method. The BCE is the idea that performs the search task again by changing the goal point into the starting point and vice versa. The simulation shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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