... original applications for which the GyroEngine was designed is the GyroPoint, a three-dimensional pointing device for manipulating a cursor in three-dimensional computer graphics The GyroEngine ... 2540 lines for a 5-centimeter (2 in) diameter incremental encoder disk [Henkel, 1987] In addition to low-speed instabilities, single-channel tachometer encoders are also incapable of detecting ... short predefined interval The shaft is then rotated slowly back into the stop at a specified low velocity from this designated start point, thus eliminating any variations in inertial loading that...
... in Amsterdam, which explains the bike and the boat) Søren Rolighed is a data warehouse consultant, working on building and maintaining databases for telco-data in the largest data warehouse in ... countries, including Britain, Holland, Denmark, Japan, and the United States Before I began working on the book, I’d met J.P Brown in person when he was doing some consulting work in St Paul, Minnesota ... West for sharing their incredible marketing experience and expertise Jacquie Shanahan, AnnHelen Lindeholm, David Burton, Febea Marinetti, and Rosie Moss of Elsevier Science for making certain that...
... United Kingdom P.Stribling@btinternet.com Milind Tambe Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA tambe@isi.edu Contributing ... This involves impairments in areas such as recognizing and interpreting the emotional meaning of facial expressions, difculties in turn-taking and imitation, as well as problems in establishing ... easily in real life (e.g children in other countries) In chapter 22 Jonathan Gratch describes socially situated planning for deliberate planning agents that inhabit virtual training environments For...
... is a line segment connecting the two positions in the Euclidean space This line segment is divided into N smaller line segments for numerical integration At any integration step, the joint rates ... are active for a joint, when the joint position is close to the joint limit When a joint position is far from the joint limit, the JLA additional task becomes inactive for that joint In this case, ... robots are employed for environmental monitoring and inspection Application examples are monitoring Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) effectiveness, watching for hazards such as...
... environments Interacting with, assisting, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly touch people and their lives The goal of the new series of Springer Tracts in Advanced ... spontaneously and independently [22] D Milutinovic and P Lima: Cells & Robots, STAR 32, pp 1–8, 2007 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 springerlink.com Introduction of potential interest for multi-agent ... including the ultrasonic sensory system and decision making process corresponding to the robot mission task We speculate that the cell does the similar kind of information processing before it performs...
... likelihood of containing the object The rankings of these hypotheses are set by the expected uncertainty in the object’s motion/process model, as well as the uncertainties in the sources of information ... mobile robots must estimate the position of objects by using information obtained from a wide variety of sources The authors formally describe the problem of estimating the state of objects in the ... of its heading direction in the generated common coordinates, without any special devices for estimating location and bearing The authors propose a set of common coordinates and a heading direction...
... frame (skeleton) in case of a human being, and mechanical frame for a robot In industrial robots, the mechanical frame is the mechanical links linked through joints In mobile robots, the mechanical ... length of line OB; ǂ is the angle between line OA and plumb line; ǃ is the angle between line OB and the line perpendicular to line BC; Fmin is the pre-setting pulling force of spring BC; f is ... Since the introduction of the first industrial robot UNIMATE in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey in 1961, robots have gained stronger and stronger foothold in the industry In the...
... (2008) Multi-Agent Information Inferencing Fusion For Integrated Information System, Information Science and Computing Series, School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi ... the inspection-intervention tasks They are: • heavy inspection - intervention robots; • medium inspection - intervention robots; • lightweight inspection - intervention robots; 4 Mobile Robots ... to perform Specifying a destination point “InputGoal” function Navigating to the specified destination by using path planning, path generating, trajectory generating, obstacles detecting,...
... natural dynamics In addition, navigating and avoiding obstacles in real-time and in real environment is a challenging problem for mobile robotsin general, and for legged robotsin specific Nature ... Quadruped Robots Kiyotaka Izumi, Ryoichi Sato, Keigo Watanabe and Maki K Habib 107 Wall and Pipes Climbing Robots Climbing Service Robotsfor Improving Safety in Building Maintenance Industry Bing ... structures, intelligent sensors, etc Some wall climbing robots are in use in industry today to clean high-rise buildings, and to perform inspections in dangerous environments such as storage tanks for...
... used for both waveform learning and frequency extraction Each of these has preferable properties for learning and controlling of robots by imitation On-line waveform learning can be used for effective ... Sixth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, York, UK, 2005 - IPCAT 2005, Information Processing in Cells and Tissues Ude, A., Atkeson, C G & Riley, M (2000) Planning ... difficult forrobots to find autonomously the combination of joints in which the robot can indicate all the target positions In this method, experts of the robots select beforehand the right combination...
... in Amsterdam, which explains the bike and the boat) Søren Rolighed is a data warehouse consultant, working on building and maintaining databases for telco-data in the largest data warehouse in ... countries, including Britain, Holland, Denmark, Japan, and the United States Before I began working on the book, I’d met J.P Brown in person when he was doing some consulting work in St Paul, Minnesota ... West for sharing their incredible marketing experience and expertise Jacquie Shanahan, AnnHelen Lindeholm, David Burton, Febea Marinetti, and Rosie Moss of Elsevier Science for making certain that...
... original applications for which the GyroEngine was designed is the GyroPoint, a three-dimensional pointing device for manipulating a cursor in three-dimensional computer graphics The GyroEngine ... 2540 lines for a 5-centimeter (2 in) diameter incremental encoder disk [Henkel, 1987] In addition to low-speed instabilities, single-channel tachometer encoders are also incapable of detecting ... short predefined interval The shaft is then rotated slowly back into the stop at a specified low velocity from this designated start point, thus eliminating any variations in inertial loading that...
... used for both waveform learning and frequency extraction Each of these has preferable properties for learning and controlling of robots by imitation On-line waveform learning can be used for effective ... Sixth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, York, UK, 2005 - IPCAT 2005, Information Processing in Cells and Tissues Ude, A., Atkeson, C G & Riley, M (2000) Planning ... difficult forrobots to find autonomously the combination of joints in which the robot can indicate all the target positions In this method, experts of the robots select beforehand the right combination...
... employed in special situations or by certain species These are e.g rectilinear crawling, burrowing, jumping, sinuslifting, skidding, swimming and climbing The latter four, which are or may be used for ... be able to move up the plane, the upper limit for the initial winding angle should be decreased and the lower limit should be increased for an increasing inclination angle of the plane 2.4 Snake ... movements of the joints is used to move the 2- and 3-link system to any point in the plane Forward motion of the multi-link system is obtained by propagating a single wave consisting of or links from...
... October 22-26, 1995 Tech Report Borenstein, J and Feng, L., 1994, "UMBmark — A Method for Measuring, Comparing, and Correcting Dead-reckoning Errors in Mobile Robots. " Technical Report, The University ... 569574 Paper 60 Borenstein, J and Feng L., 1995c, "UMBmark: A Benchmark Test for Measuring Deadreckoning Errors in Mobile Robots. " Presented at the 1995 SPIE Conference on Mobile Robots, Philadelphia, ... L., 1995b, "Correction of Systematic Dead-reckoning Errors in Mobile Robots. " Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Intelligen t Robots and Systems (IROS '95), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,...
... SENSORS FOR DEAD RECKONING Dead reckoning (derived from “deduced reckoning” of sailing days) is a simple mathematical procedure for determining the present location of a vessel by advancing some ... 2540 lines for a 5-centimeter (2 in) diameter incremental encoder disk [Henkel, 1987] In addition to low-speed instabilities, single-channel tachometer encoders are also incapable of detecting ... short predefined interval The shaft is then rotated slowly back into the stop at a specified low velocity from this designated start point, thus eliminating any variations in inertial loading that...