—Traditional industrial robots have been widely used in automotive manufacturing for nearly 30 years. However, there have been very few attempts to automate mobile robotic system...
Bradley Hamner, Seth Koterba, Jane Shi, Reid G. Si...
— To understand the capabilities and behavior of a robot it is important to have knowledge about its physical structure and how its actuators control its shape. In this paper we ...
Andreas Lyder, Henrik Gordon Petersen, Kasper St&o...
— This paper analyzes the potential to apply mobile service robots in offshore oil and gas producing environments. The required hardware and software components and abilities of ...
Matthias Bengel, Kai Pfeiffer, Birgit Graf, Alexan...
— This paper presents an indoor localization system for the visually impaired. The basis of our system is an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for six degree-of-freedom (d.o.f.) posit...
Joel A. Hesch, Faraz M. Mirzaei, Gian Luca Mariott...
—The goal of a robot formation control architecture is to get a number of robots into a specified form. To be effective and practical, the control architecture must be able to tr...
— Autonomous systems situated in the real world often need to recognize, track, and reason about various types of physical objects. In order to allow reasoning at a symbolic leve...
—LabRatTM is an autonomous, self-contained mobile robot kit with batteries, motors, two bumper whisker sensors, and three infrared proximity sensors that double as channels for &...
Paul Robinette, Ryan J. Meuth, Ryanne Dolan, Donal...
— To realize the harmonious cooperation with the operator, the man-machine cooperative system must be designed so as to accommodate with the characteristics of the operator’s s...
— Many everyday human skills can be framed in terms of performing some task subject to constraints imposed by the environment. Constraints are usually unobservable and frequently...
Matthew Howard, Stefan Klanke, Michael Gienger, Ch...