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The robotic color cameras of ActivMedia Robotics Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) are fully integrated accessories for ActivMedia mobile robots. The PTZ camera systems include the Sony EVI-D30 or the Cannon VC-C4 with custom signal and power cables, mounting hardware, and software for integration on the robot and control through client applications, including ACTS, ARIA, and Saphira. You can easily add the

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Power Cable Base on the model trend and time to time changing, one end of the camera’s 12VDC power cable plugs into the 12-position latch-lock header on the “legacy” motor-power board, or into the 4-position minifit AUX1 (RADIO) or AUX2 switched power connector on the Pioneer 2-Plus or Pioneer 3 motor-power board. Feed the other end of the cable through the console near the camera, such as

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Your PTZ Robotic Camera assemblies with software support for controlling the pan, tilt, and zoom features of the camera through your ActivMedia robot’s operating system, such as P2OS and AROS. In addition, we provide C- and C++-language-based libraries and source code for integration of the PTZ Robotic Camera with your client applications. Server-Level Communications When install to auxiliary

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Pervasive robotics will need, in a near future, small, light and cheap robots that exhibit complex behaviors. These requirements led to the development of the M2-M4 Macaco project - a robotic active vision head. Macaco is a portable system, capable to emulate the head of different creatures both functionally and aesthetically. It integrates mechanisms for autonomous navigation, social

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Security is one possible operational scenario for this active head. For this class of applications, Macaco robot was equipped with a behavioral system capable of searching for people or faces, and to further recognize them. In addition, human gaze direction might reveal security threats, and thus a head gaze detection algorithm was developed. Probable targets for such gazings are other people and

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The target of this partnership application is to consolidate the European Consortium of EMARO master course with Asian partners. Duration of the partnership is three years. English is the working language in all the partnership institutions. Objectives of EMARO partnership:• To encourage the European students mobility, scholars and administrators involved in EMARO and to enhance the skills and,•

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There are many advances in robotics and autonomy depend on increased computational power. Therefore, it is advances in high performance, low power space onboard the computers are central to more capable the robotics. Current efforts in this direction include exploiting high performance field of the programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), multi-core processors, and enabling use in space of commercial

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AR&D is a capability requiring many vehicle subsystems to operate in concert. It is important to clarify that AR&D is not a system and cannot be purchased off the shelf. This strategy focuses on development of a certified, standardized capability suite of subsystems enabling AR&D for different mission classes and needs. This suite will be incrementally developed, tested and integrated over a span

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Autonomy, in the context of a system (robotic, spacecraft, or aircraft), is the capability for the system to operate independently from external control. For NASA missions there is a spectrum of Autonomy in a system from basic automation (mechanistic execution of action or response to stimuli) through to fully autonomous systems able to act independently in dynamic and uncertainenvironments. Two

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During FY11 the Robonaut 2 system will be launched on STS-133 and delivered to the ISS in what will become the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM). Robonaut 2 (R2) is the latest in a series of dexterous robots built by NASA as technology demonstration, nowevolving from Earth to in-space experiments. The main objectives are to explore dexterous manipulation in zero gravity, test human-robot

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The state of the art in robotic space mobility (e.g. not including conventional rocket propulsion) includes the Mars Exploration Rovers and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory, and for human surface mobility the Apollo lunar roving vehicle used on the final three Apollo missions. Recently, systems have been developed and tested on Earth for mobility on planetary surfaces including the Space

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The ultimate efficacy of space systems depends greatly upon the interfaces that humans use to operate them. The current state of the art in human system interfaces is summarized below along with some of the advances that are expected in the next 25 years. Human operation of most systems today is accomplished in a simple pattern reminiscent of the classic “Sense – Plan – Act” control paradigm for

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The Robotics, Tele-Robotics and Autonomous Systems Technology Area Breakdown Structure (TABS). This area includes sensors and algorithms needed to convert sensor data into representations suitable for decision-making. Traditional spacecraft sensing and perception included position, attitude, and velocity estimation in reference frames centered on solar system bodies, plus sensing spacecraft

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Manipulation is defined as making an intentional change in the environment. Positioning sensors, handling objects, digging, assembling, grappling, berthing, deploying, sampling, bending, and even positioning the crew on the end of long arms are tasks considered to be forms of manipulation. Arms, cables, fingers, scoops, and combinations of multiple limbs are embodiments of manipulators. Here we

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Digital inputsDigital inputs are generally used for controlling switches. The WPILib DigitalInput object is typically used to get the current state of the corresponding hardware line: 0 or 1. The digital inputs are more complex such as encoders or counters, are handled by using the appropriate classes. Using these other supported device types (encoder, ultrasonic rangefinder, gear tooth sensor,

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Fifth generation robot controller Based on more than four decades of robotics experience, the IRC5 sets a new benchmark in the robotics industry. Bringing previous achievements in motion control, flexibility, usability, safety and robustness along, it adds new breakthroughs in modularity, user interface, multi robot control and PC tool support.SafetyOperator safety is the IRC5 central quality,

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The National Instruments compact RIO-9074 real-time controller (cRIO) is presently the robot controller provided by the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). It has around five hundred times more memory than previous FRC controllers. Dedicated hardware of FPGA capable of sampling across 16 channels replaces previously cumbersome programming techniques necessary with previous controllers. The WPI

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The WPI Robotics Library has the sensors that are supplied in the FRC kit of parts, as well as many other commonly used sensors available to FIRST teams through industrial and hobby robotics outlets. The WPILib supported sensors are listed in the chart below. The supported sensors include those that are provided in the FIRST kit of parts, as well as other commonly used sensors.Types of supported

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A general overview of the identification methods of parameter for rigid robots can be found in textbooks. The identification techniques of experimental robot estimate dynamic robot parameters based on force/torque and motion data that are measured during robot motions along optimized trajectories. Mostly, these techniques are based on the fact that the dynamic robot model can be written as a

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The identification procedure of linear least squares used for the identification of rigid robot models assumes that the position signal of all degrees of freedom are known or can be measured. If the all degrees position of freedom including the corresponding velocities and accelerations are known, the dynamic model can be written as a linear set of equations with the dynamic parameters as

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We can not write an introduction to robotics without talking the fundamental laws of robots. The popular Russian writer of science fiction Isaac Asimov formulated the three fundamental laws for robots. The perspective in contrast to the robot described by Capek, a benevolent, good robot that acts as the human being. Asimov visualized the robot as an automated mechanical creature of human

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The robots distinction lie somewhere in the sophistication of the programmability of the device – a (NC) milling machine is not an industrial robot. If a device of mechanical can be programmed to perform a wide variety of applications, it is probably an industrial robot. The essential difference between an NC machine and an industrial robot is the versatility of the robot, that it is provided

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Long-term visions industrial robots of the future have been depicted in five scenarios which are given in the following as examples:1. Robot assistants as a versatile tool at the workplaceScenario: A robot assistant is used as a versatile tool by the worker at a manual workplace. The applications could be manifold: arc welding, machining, woodworking, aircraft assembly etc.Operation: The arm of

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The described long-term vision realization is subject to overcoming the following barriers:• Man-machine-interaction: Today, manufacturing tasks cannot be expressed in intuitive enduser terms as would be typically required for instructions by voice. Multimodal dialogues based on voice, graphics, and texts should be initiated to quickly resolve insufficient or ambiguous information.• Mechanical

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Currently, robots have been used mainly in the automotive industries, including their supply chains, accounting for more than 60% of total robot sales. Typically prime targets for robot automation in car manufacturing are welding, assembly of body, motor and gear-box, and painting and coating. Automotive industries are the driver key of application in terms of cost, technology and services

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There are various new fields of applications in which robot technology is not widespread today due to its lack of flexibility and high costs involved when dealing with varying lot sizes and variable product geometries. New robotic applications will soon emerge from new industries and from SMEs, which cannot use today’s inflexible robot technology or which still require a lot of manual operations

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The BarrettHand consists its central supervisory microprocessor that coordinates four dedicated motion-control microprocessors and controls I/O via the RS232 line inside its compact palm. The control electronics are created on a parallel 70-pin backplane bus. Associated with each motion-control microprocessor are the related motor commutation electronics, sensor electronics, and motor-power

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Dexterous control, Intelligent is key to the success of any programmable robot, whether it is an arm, automatically guided vehicle, or dexterous hand. While robotic intelligence is generally associated with processor-driven motor control, many biological systems, including human hands, integrate some degree of specialized reflex control independent of explicit motor-control signals from the brain

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Nowadays robotic part handling and assembling is done with grippers. If surface conditions offer, electromagnets and vacuum suction can also be used, for example in handling automobile windshields and body panels. As part sizes start to exceed the order of 100gms, a gripper’s jaws are custom shaped to ensure a secure hold. As the durable of handling mainstay and assembly, these tools have changed

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This article introduces a new approach to material handling, part sorting, and component assembly called “grasping”, in which a single reconfigurable grasper with embedded intelligence replaces an entire bank of unique, fixed-shape grippers and tool changers. We have to explore what is wrong with robotics today to appreciate the motivations that guided the design of Barrett’s grasper, the

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The next step is to investigate the use of reconfiguration in other algorithmic applications after the basic reconfiguration problem is solved. One such class of algorithmic questions deals with resource utilization.Heterogeneous systems allow specialized modules for communications, mobility, power, computation, or other resources. How these resources should best be distributed for various tasks

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FORWARD AND INVERSE KINEMATICS For the case of simple robotics structures such as the one used in this Lab, it is possible to find the inverse kinematics model by only merely geometrical reasoning. That is what is implemented in InverseKinematicsUsingGeometry.m function. Use the InverseKinematics.m function so that no one of the robot joints leaves the robot workspace during the movement

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Like homogeneous systems, heterogeneous SR systems promise versatility and usefulness superior to fixed architecture robots through their ability to match structure to task. In addition, heterogeneous systems further this goal with their ability to match capability to task. The original vision of reconfigurable systems was inherently heterogeneous, and during the subsequent fifteen years

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Reconfiguration is generally discussed in terms of task-specific shape transformation, but it can also be used for locomotion. We have developed a distributed locomotion algorithm for unit-compressible robots using inchworm-like motion, and implemented this algorithm in hardware on the Crystal system. We also performed extensive experimentation; the algorithm ran for over 75 hours in total at the

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The problem of self-repair is to restore functionality to a SR robot, without outside intervention, in response to module failure. Our strategy is to detect the failure, eject the failed module from the system, and replace it with a spare built into the robot’s structure. Path planning in this problem is based on finding rectilinear paths that minimize the number of turns. Our 3D-MBP algorithm

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Function (m-file .m or Simulink file .mdl) description as below:Main.m It is permits to open one user interface to simulate the robotics system with or without using Simulink blocks. One graphical representation of the robot SCARA 2dof as well as the possibility to animate it is accessible via this interface. This interface permits also to recover the mouse events. In this case, the mouse will

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The transforming task of a modular system from one configuration into another is called the Reconfiguration Planning problem. Solving this problem is fundamental to any SR system. In some approaches explicit start and goal configurations are given, and in others the goal shape is defined by desired properties. Centralized algorithms require global system knowledge and compute

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Modules aggregate as connected 1D strings of units in chain-based systems. This class of robots easily implements rolling or undulating motions as in snake robots or legged robots. However, control is much more difficult for chain-based systems than for lattice-based systems because of the continuous nature of the actuation: modules can move to any arbitrary position as opposed to a fixed number

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Modules are constrained to occupy positions in a virtual grid, or lattice in lattice-based systems. One of the simplest module shapes in a 2D lattice based system is a square, but more complex polygons such as a hexagon (and a rhombic dodecahedron in 3D) have also been proposed. Because of the discrete, regular nature of their structure, developing algorithms for lattice-based systems is often

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To build reconfiguring robots in hardware involves designing and constructing the basic modular units that combine to form the robot itself. Such modules differ from the wheels, arms, and grippers of fixed architecture robots in that they are functional only as a group as opposed to individually. Because we are interested in developing general algorithms for classes of robots instead of

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Self-reconfiguring (SR) robots are robots which can change shape to match the task at hand. These robots comprise many discrete modules, often all identical, with simple functionality such as connecting to neighbors, limited actuation, computation, communication and power. Orchestrating the behavior of the individual modules allows the robot to approximate, and reconfigure between, arbitrary

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To design heterogeneous SR systems, there are significant challenges involved. A fundamental issue is the degree to which modules are different from each other. There are many possible dimensions of heterogeneity, such as size and shape differences, various sensor payloads, or different actuation capabilities.These differences all impact the main algorithmic problem, which is how to reconfigure

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A virtual instructor (VI) is an autonomous entity whose main objective is to deliver personalized instruction to human beings and to improve human learning performance by combining knowledge of empirically researched instructional (i.e., pedagogical, andragogical) techniques of how human’s learn & behave. A VI may be embodied (e.g., graphical, holographic, robotic, etc.), non-embodied (i.e.,

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Robots, whether teleoperated under autonomous or supervisory control have been used in a variety of applications in maintenance and repair. The following subsections describe many of these systems, focusing primarily on applications for which working robot prototypes have been developed.Teleoperators have been utilized as well in the maintenance role for more than 4 decades in the nuclear

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Solving robotic exercises is a difficult task for students because the modeling activity involved requires students to comprehend programming, robotic design concepts as well as basic engineering skills. To help students train themselves, we are proposing a mixed reality based instructional system that addresses these learning challenges and teaches them a general problem solving

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In 2007, LEGO introduced a new kit the Mindstorms NXT which consists of 510 pieces, thereby reducing the number of parts by 208. The LEGO Mindstorms NXT Kit uses a graphical programming interface to teach RC concepts. It is powered by a 32-bit ARM processor. The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT brick also has a co-processor, an 8-bit AVR processor and includes Bluetooth communication. It includes 4 input

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Many publications have demonstrated that computer assisted learning and virtual instruction makes it easier for students to grasp complex concepts, work at their own pace as well as benefit from numerous advantages these technologies offer. In this section we highlight additional benefits when a virtual instructor is coupled with the LEGO Mindstorm NXT software interface.A methodology for solving

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The robotics Introducing to students for the first time is extremely challenging. This initial stage exposes students to basic engineering concepts, mechanical designs, and introductory programming skills. Because students are pliable at this initial stage, they need to be immersed in a learning environment that addresses all these skills. The Virtual Instructor Learning Environment is one

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Bricks, plates, and beams are not as glamorous as the RCX brick, motors, and sensors. But they are the fundamental components that are used to build the frame that supports the RCX, counter acts the motor is forces, and holds the sensors precisely in place. MasterLEGO building fundamentals first, and you r team will have success. Ignore them, and you will spend more time rep airing your robot

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The students will use the Internet to conduct four web quests to introduce them to the world of robotics and robotic construction. The first web quest focuses on what a robot is and how robots are used in the world around them. The second web quest shows students to the world of LEGO Robotics by having them explore creations on LEGO Mindstorms.com. The third web quest leads the students through

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It will be interesting if the robot has some higher purpose. To read the photocells we will use the Stamp II instruction rctime. The darker it is, the longer it takes to read the cell. As it takes long time to read a single photocell, we will want to break up the readings into different states, doing the math to determine whether or not the left or the right photocell sees brighter light also

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All we need wander to do is choose a direction randomly and a duration to go that direction. This module will be as easy to design as the act module, and it will demonstrate the ease with which we can add new behaviors, and how these behaviors can remember what they are doing. The first step in designing our form of a finite state machine is to write down all of the steps that are to be taken

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A robot that doesn’t do anything isn’t very interesting. Now that you have modified your servos, attached them to Stamp II I/O ports and have checked their operation, we will make our BoE-Bot wander randomly around its environment. We need to have two modules to implement this simple functionality: One that determines a direction and duration to go in that direction and another to send commands

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To subsume a task is to supercede it with a higher priority task. When we talk about subsumption in robotic programming we are describing the process by which one behavior subsumes, or over-rides an other based on an explicit priority that we have defined. The Brooksian ideal subsumption architecture does not require that any behavior know anything about any other behavior. A robot programmed in

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The Parallax Board of Education (Robot Boe-Bot) is a simple robot made from a Parallax Board of Education (BoE) mounted on an aluminum frame to which two Futaba hobby servos are mounted. These servos have been modified to provide continuous motion and have several speeds at which they will turn. The BoE-Bot contains a small solderless prototyping board on which several experiments can be done.

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This behavior FSM (Finite State Machine) is a type of a state machine that returns no outputs, it merely changes state based on input and the current state. Each activity that the FSM engages is a state, unique in operation and distinct from all other states by its definition. If this is difficult to understand, let’s use a sort of real world application to explain FSMs, the soda machine. In

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There are five identifiable stages in the computer solution of a problem in computational science and engineering. In this article is using the modeling of a robotic arm to present the stages of computational science and engineering. The case study considers the kinematics of a robotic arm. We use this opportunity to discuss several ideas about programming in the C++ language. We will discuss how

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In this article we will practice adding new features to a C++ program so it can solve a more complex problem. Consider the robot arm. With the information in the link diagram, plus the values of the angles of the robot arm joints, it is possible to determine the X-Y positions of the robot arm joints.1. Determine the equations for locating the elbow and wrist joints.2. Copy the file rbtjnts.cpp

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Currently robotic technologies developments raise great expectations about the extension of human capabilities and the improvement of many aspects of human life, including freedom from repetitive jobs and fatigue, more precise and less invasive surgery, effective assistance for elderly and disabled people, new forms of support in education and entertainment.

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One very important component next generation DM applications are advanced robotic simulation tools that go far beyond earlier off-line programming applications. These simulation tools enable production engineers to virtually simulate, validate, and commission the entire robotic workcell environment. Currently, a robotic workcell environment can be very complex,

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Manufacturing operations are driven by a set of imperatives that business is forcing companies to implement processes, technologies, and practices that not only will enable them to compete and profit, but in some cases survive. Companies must be able to innovate in terms of having a product that will succeed in the market place. Companies must have manufacturing operations that are

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It was showed that the environments in which robots are supposed to act become more dynamic as one progressively moves from industrial robotics towards the current frontiers of service and field robotics. It turns out that robot designers are not always in the position to describe in sufficient detail, identify, and implement control policies that are adequate to achieve reactive and

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Many systems of military robotic have been deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. These robots include the remote-controlled PackBot system, which enables one to detect and detonate IED (improvised explosive devices), and the Talon SWORDS, another remote-controlled robot deployed in the second Iraq war, which can be equipped with machine guns and grenade

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The robotic system observable behavior results from the coordinated working of its bodily parts and their interactions with the environment. The contribution of the environment in shaping robotic behaviors can be hardly overestimated. The trajectory of a personal robot negotiating a living room surface can be affected significantly by changes of frictional coefficients only, such as those

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Robots are machines endowed with the information processing, sensing, and motor abilities. Information processing takes notably the form of perception, reasoning, planning, and learning, in addition to feedback signal processing and control in the robotic systems. The coordinated exercise of these abilities enable robotic systems to achieve adaptive

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Controllers and processors continually improve at an exponential rate. Courses instructors in microcontrollers and microprocessors need constant exposure to the latest technologies available to ensure that their students remain on the cutting edge of our technological capability. This article focuses on how the BasicX (BX-24p) microcontroller may be utilized to control non-holonomic autonomous

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Many difficulties controlling of mobile robots involve having a motion controller that is small enough to be on the mobile robot, powerful enough to control the device and simple enough to be programmed with ease. In this case, the BX-24p comes to the rescue. Robotic motion control can be realized using a Motor Mind C carrier board (MMC_BS2) that is designed for use with the BS2, but since the BX

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The people involved number in research and development of tactile and haptic sensing and the number of reported works has increased particularly in the last couple of years, but the use of tactile sensors is still extremely low and fails to show momentum. Why? We think that basically there is no real market- oriented driving force boosting the tactile sensing domain: industrial automation aims

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The industrial robot programming task is done basically in two ways:1. The programmer in task charged can use some modeling technique but, instead of thinking only about the problem, it is necessary to think about the robot that will run the program, and about its programming language. Both the language and the robot will limitate the specification of the problem; moreover it is not

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The use of an adequate modeling technique will facilitate the programming system development, enabling the system developers and the system clients to express their ideas, allowing their communication in a known way. The modeling advantage is the creation of models from the system and its behavior that can be seen in different abstraction levels, before implementing it. So, it is

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It is important to use a modeling technique as it was said before, but is also important to have some language that would allow the programmer to express exactly what he intends to do.Such a language should be simple, and as closed to the specification of the problem as possible. It must also have high level constructors that allow the definition of structured and complex abstract data types and

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One simple approach to solve some limitations on, the industrial robotic systems development is still a costly, difficult, and time consuming operation, are the Off-line programming environments. These environments are based in platforms of graphical simulation, in which the programming and execution process are shown using the real objects models. Consequently, the robot programmer has to

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Current work focuses on a wheeled industrial vehicle called Industrial Ro- bot. Four driving modules are present; each is equipped with two wheels. These modules properly align to the direction of the movement.This vehicle was designed in order to meet the following central requirements:• The ability to transport materials of a maximum mass of m=500[kg] (large transmissions, automotive engines,

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Computer simulation in general offers tools that make research of distant, dangerous, or very expensive phenomena easily possible. Computer simulation is a method for forecasting consecutive states of complex systems basing on their models. The simulation can also serve to foresee behaviors of objects which not yet exist, as for instance the prototype of the Production Robot. Recently years, the

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In the example SimMechanics and Matlab/Simulink was applied in order to design the dynamic models and perform simulations of robots. The graphic interface allows the synthesis and analysis of the object on the functional blocks level. An advantage of such solution is that designers are no longer obligated to write manually movement equations and complicated control code. Simulink is a universal

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The dynamic controller and the dynamic model can be built within the Matlab environment. The model is built in SimMechanics while the controller is built in Simulink. SimMechanics disposes of a library from which different bodies, constraints, joints, drivers, force elements, actuators, and sensors can be selected and used to synthesize models of multi-body system. The ground block defines the

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Industrial Robotics is a core module being taught to the final year students in the Mechatronics Engineering course. This core module consist many abstract principles and concepts, which are needed in solving problems such as an industrial robot programming. To ensure that students are able to grasp the concepts and apply the principles to solve authentic programming problems, students should be

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It is necessary to generate the appropriate inverse kinematics or the dynamic model for robot motion description. The dynamic model allows considering such properties as: mass, friction forces, mass-moment of inertia, torque, centrifugal force, etc. Such models are built in order to better under- stand the operation and structure the future mechatronic product. The model elaboration becomes even

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Actuator’s muscle like properties could allow legged robots to achieve the performance approaching that of their biological counterparts. Some of the beneficial properties of muscle include its low impedance, low friction, high force fidelity, and good bandwidth. Series Elastic Actuators share the properties beneficial with muscle and are well suited for legged robots. These high quality

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Robots perform repetitious and tedious tasks with great speed and precision in traditional manufacturing operations. In this setting where the environment is controlled and the tasks are repetitious, position controlled robots which trace predefine joint trajectories are optimal. However, in unstructured environments where little is known of the environment, force controlled robots that can

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In the early 1960s the United States was virtually without competition in robot research and production and led Japan, Soviet Union and Europe by several years. One of the first industrial robots, the Unimate, was manufactured in the United States in 1961 by Unimation, based on a patent filed in 1954. The Unimate, also called a programmable transfer machine, was designed for material handling. It

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The method in designing and constructing the robotic arm are based on the operational characteristics and features of the microcontrollers, the electronic circuit diagram, stepper motors, and features of the microcontroller and stepper motors. Circuit DiagramThe components of the electronic circuit diagram are the MCU, the LATCH 74LS373, the EPROM 2732, Intel 8255 PIO, resistors, diodes,

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Robotic arm has become popular in the robotic world. The essential part of the robotic arm is a programmable microcontroller based brick capable of driving basically three stepper motors design to form an anthropomorphic structure. The first design was for experimental use on a human size industrial robot arm called PUMA 560 used to explore issues in versatile objects handling and compliance

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The world Robotics, meaning the study of robot was coined by Isaac Asimov. Robotics involves elements of both mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as control theory, computing and artificial intelligence. According to Robot Institute of America, a robot is a reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move parts, materials, tools or specialized device through variable

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Gantry/Cartesian robot are made up of three prismatic joints. It has 3 degrees of freedom and the axes coincide with Cartesian coordinates. They provide a structure that can be useful for heavy loading situations. They are used commonly for pick and place operations, machine loading, part insertion and stacking part. A gantry is simple to visualize and program and can manipulate large loads for

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Robots visions and inventions can be traced back to ancient Greece. In about 322 Before Century the philosopher Aristotle wrote: “If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it, then there would be no needed either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.” Aristotle seems to hint at the comfort such tools could provide to humans.

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Robots are used heavily in manufacturing industry. Robots applications in the industry can be generally categorized into three categories: material handling, processing and assembly/inspection. The robot is installed to improve a specific task or process. A robot can take a medial task done by an operator and maximize productivity by working in minimal time with maximum results. A robot replacing

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George Devol acquired the first patent for an industrial robot in 1965. He developed the idea of having a mechanical system that was pre-programmed to handle objects. In the beginning the idea was fairly complex, it gave industry a good start to begin the industrial robot era. Since then there have been many patents exploring the world of robotics. One in particular was a design building on the

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InteractionInteraction between human and robot will be easier if the robots are humanoid. The more humanoid the robot, the easier it will be for a human to intuitively understand its limitations and capabilities, to plan its actions and to communicate directions clearly. Ideally, interacting should be natural that even a child should utilize easily robot assistance.It needs a large number of

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The degree of the human controls robot behaviors tends to polarize toward the extremes. At one end the human is in charge of: controlling the robot as a marionette, or feeding its brain with everything one assumes the robot should know.At the other hand, the robot is seldom provided with a set of learning algorithms and left alone in the world to learn by built maps, exploration, make sense of it

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Humans absorb information from the surrounding environment and act upon the environment, transforming it for their benefit. They introduced robots as intermediates for some tasks. Robots are defined by their relationship with the humans and the environment. Robots receive order and report on their interaction with the environment from which they extract information and upon which they act. Robots

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Humans prefer to demonstrate movements, rather than describe linguistically. They offer a visual model by demonstration, which can be used for learning by imitation. Thus, from the learning motor perspective of skills humanoid robots have an unmatched advantage on other robots. They have a body shape that allows them to imitate humans.The most straightforward way to force a robot to imitate of

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The CoSARC language is devoted to the robot controller architectures of design and implementation. This language draws from existing software component technologies such as CCM or Fractal and Architecture Description Language such as Meta-H or ArchJava. It proposes a structures set to describe the architecture in term of composition of cooperating software components. A software component is a

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A control component describes as a part of the control activities of a robot controller. It can represent several entities of the controller, as we decompose the controller into a set of interconnected entities, for instance Command (entity that executes a control law or a sequence control), Perception (entity in charge of sensor signal analysis, estimation etc), Event Generator ( entity that

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CoSARC (Component-based Software Architecture of Robot Controller) methodology provides a generic view on robot control architecture design by means of an architecture pattern. The proposed pattern is adaptable to a large set of hybrid architectures. It provide conceptual framework of the developers, useful for controller analysis. The phase of analysis is an important stage because it allows

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Configuration of ARDev was unable to perform at runtime. It was necessary to terminate the program and reinitialize it in order to change any settings. This tool should ideally be run constantly helping to avoid the potential loss of time and important data.In order to provide configuration and runtime control of ARDev a graphical user interface library was added. The Library AntTweakBar was

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The platforms of robot controllers development and their underlying methodologies are of great importance for IT and laboratories society, because there is an increasing interest in future service robotics. Such platforms help developers in many of their activities such as modeling, programming, model analysis, test and simulation and should take into account preoccupations like the reuse of

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Developing mobile robot applications in a real world environment presents a number of challenges. The challenges are a result of the researcher developing the application often being remote from the robot, real environments are dynamic and the information provided by sensors can not be interpreted easily in real time with classical techniques. AR (Augmented Reality) provides a means to solve many

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How does one create the intelligent of machine? This problem has proven difficult. Scientist have taken one of three approaches over the past years, firstly, which is knowledge based, an intelligent machine in a laboratory is programmed directly to perform a given task. Secondly, learning base approach, a computer is “spoon fed” human edited sensory data while the machine is controlled by a task

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Elaborate research has been done on the development of multifingered robot hand, which is employed as prosthetic hand or in humanoid robots for the past two decades. Power grasping and precision grasping are two areas in which the former relates to the application of robots carrying heavy loads. Many models and algorithms have been developed for manipulating objects with multifingered robot hand.

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