Aiming to reduce cycle time and improving the accuracy on tracking, a modified adaptive control was developed, which adapts autonomously to changing dynamic parameters. The platfor...
Fernando Ribeiro, Ivo Moutinho, Nino Pereira, Fern...
The joint controllers used in robots like the Sony Aibo are designed for the task of moving the joints of the robot to a given position. However, they are not well suited to the pr...
Abstract. In this paper we utilize information theory to study the impact in learning performance of various motivation and environmental configurations. This study is done within...
This paper presents a mobile service robot that assists users in biological and pharmaceutical laboratories by carrying out routine jobs such as filling and transportation of micr...
Erik Schulenburg, Norbert Elkmann, Markus Fritzsch...
A major challenge in deploying service robots into the real world is to design a framework that provides effective, long-term interactions with people. This includes interacting w...
Christopher King, Xavier Palathingal, Monica N. Ni...
Abstract. Reservoir Computing (RC) uses a randomly created recurrent neural network where only a linear readout layer is trained. In this work, RC is used for detecting complex eve...
Eric A. Antonelo, Benjamin Schrauwen, Xavier Dutoi...
The human body has a complex skeleton, giving a very high number of degrees of freedom, and is actuated by a large number of elastic elements muscles and tendons. As a consequence,...
Hugo Gravato Marques, Richard Newcombe, Owen Holla...
Several methods can be used for a robot to return to a previously visited position. In our approach we use the average landmark vector method to calculate a homing vector which sho...
Abstract. In this this paper, we present a solution to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem for a robot equipped with a single perspective camera. We track extr...
Abstract. In this paper we presents a project that is developing a mobile service robot to assist users in biological and pharmaceutical laboratories by executing routine jobs such...
Erik Schulenburg, Norbert Elkmann, Markus Fritzsch...