"Robot Scientist" Said to Equal Humans at Some Tasks January 14, 2004 John Roach National Geographic News It looks nothing like C-3PO of Star Wars fame, but a team of British scientists have created a "robot" that can formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and interpret results on par with the best of their human counterparts. Called the "robot scientist," the technological marvel proved its intellectual prowess by correctly determining the function of specific genes within yeast. "Th ...

"Take That, Human Intruder!" February, 2005 Popular Mechanics.com Intruders at Japanese seaports and factories may soon discover that the long arm of the law has wheels and spews smoke. The diminutive cybersheriff, named Robot X, comes from Secom, Japan's leading security company. When Robot X hits production it is expected to cost around 300,000 yen (about $2900) per month--less than the cost of an old-fashioned human guard. Most of the time, Robot X works on the same principle as the Roo ...

"Turn Off the Television!": Real-World Robotic Exploration Experiments with a Virtual 3-D Display January 2005 By David J. Bruemmer, Douglas A. Few, Miles C. Walton, Ronald L. Boring, Julie L. Marble, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory; Curtis W. Nielsen, Brigham Young University; Jim Garner, Washington University at St. Louis Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 9 You can view the abstract online. A subs ...

$1000 Off-Road Robot To Hunt Land Mines Jun 12, 2004 SciScoop From a JHU press release with cool photos: Four Johns Hopkins undergraduate engineering students have designed and built a remote-controlled robotic vehicle to find deadly land mines in rugged terrain and mark their location with a spray of paint. The prototype has been given to professional explosive detection researchers as a model for a low-cost robot that humanitarian groups and military troops could use to prevent mine-relate ...

$6.6M for UAV-Mountable LADAR 23-Jun-2005 Defense Industry Daily Harris Corporation received a $6.6 million research and development contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) to develop and demonstrate the Jigsaw Laser Radar (LADAR) 3D-imaging test-bed system for use on a DP-5X Helicopter UAV. Laser Radar (LADAR) is similar to millimeter wave radar, but uses lasers to scan and processes the signal echoed from targets, in order to create a 3-D virtual picture of t ...

$8.8M for R&D Into Robots That Can Steer Themselves June 24, 2005 Defense Industry Daily DID covered the future of land robots recently, and noted the challenges inherent in autonomously-steered robots as envisoned in the Future Combat System. Well, Defense Technologies Inc. in Ranlo, NC received an $8.8 million ceiling-priced indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for basic and applied research leading to the development of a prototype Intelligent Autonomous Unmanned Controls Stat ...

'Bots with bullets Globe and Mail January 24, 2005 By MICHAEL P. REGAN Englewood Cliffs, N.J. — The rain is turning to snow on a blustery January morning, and all the men gathered in a parking lot here surely would prefer to be inside. But the weather couldn't matter less to the robotic sharpshooter they are here to watch as it splashes through puddles, the barrel of its machine gun pointing the way like Pinocchio's nose. The Army is preparing to send 18 of these remote-controlled robotic wa ...

'Dr. Robot' to the rescue at the hospital November 16, 200 South Bend Tribune Doctors test 'remote-presence vehicle' to make their rounds more frequently DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Doctors at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center can make the rounds without leaving their chair or even leaving their house, thanks to a roaming robot called Rosie. Known technically as a remote-presence vehicle, Rosie's "head" is a 17-inch computer screen that transmits a color image of a human face. The face in m ...

Pasadenastarnews.com July 31, 2004 By Kimm Groshong EMAIL ARTICLE LINK TO ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE Article Published: Saturday, July 31, 2004 - 8:53:03 PM PST Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen, a senior research scientist & group leader at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Thursday July 29, 2004 at his lab at JPL. Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen grips a robotic hand in his lab, while an android capable of changing facial expressions looks on. Yoseph Bar-Cohen issued a challenge to researchers ...

'Legos up' on the competition December 5, 2004 By Dennis B. Roddy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Disabilities don't stop local whizzes from taking top prizes in robot contest A group of kids accustomed to challenges -- one uses crutches, three have little or no hearing, another travels by motorized wheelchair -- began remaking the world in Lego yesterday, one Starbucks at a time. Two squads from Team Tech-Link, a collection of Pittsburgh youngsters, joined 73 teams vying for trophies in the sixth ...

'Robo-doc' puts patient's heart back on the beat November 2, 2004 By Rebecca Smith, Health Reporter, Evening Standard This Is London A robot surgeon has operated on a patient to correct the man's irregular heartbeat. The £1 million Da Vinci machine carried out the operation, the first in the UK, at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. The patient, Derek Rutter, 48, suffered from atrial fibrillation, which affects 500,000 people in the UK each year. During the procedure, robotic-enhanced atrial fibrillation ablation, surgeon Roberto Casula operated the robot by remote control to insert 5mm probes into Mr Rutter's chest. The probes sent microwaves into the heart tissue, stopping any abnormal heart rhythm. The operation was a success, meaning there was no need for invasive surgery.

'Robo-doc' works hospital rounds May 19, 2005 By Julie Clothier CNN.com LONDON, England (CNN) -- A London hospital has two new members of staff -- two robotic "doctors" that can carry out ward rounds in place of human physicians. The robots will be trialed in a general surgery ward and the accident and emergency department at St Mary's Hospital. They will also be used for surgical training for junior doctors at London's Imperial College. Called "Remote Presence," or RP6 for short, the robo ...

'Robot soldiers' bound for Iraq China Daily January 26, 2005 The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq. Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this spring. The machine is based on a robot already used by the military to disable bombs. Officials say the robot warrior is fast, accurate and will track and attack the enemy with relatively little risk to the live ...

BBC News 29 December, 2003, By Jo Twist BBC News Online technology reporter The Treebot is the first of its kind A fearless mobile robot is helping scientists monitor environmental changes in forests. The hi-tech Tarzan of the robot world, nicknamed Treebot, is the first of its kind to combine networked sensors, a webcam, and a wireless net link. It is solar-powered and moves up and down special cables to take samples and measurements for vital analysis. Treebot has been devel ...

Trusted handshake "For hardness, we have a dual-membrane sensor that measures the differential displacement based on the same contact. It's basically two strain gauges with different strain constants so that you don't even need to calibrate the contact force; you only need the differential output from the two sensors to derive the harness of an object," said Liu. For the future, the EEs plan to distribute large numbers of these arrays in a polymer fabric that can form the skin of future robot ...

'Swarm-bots' offer sniff of the future The Guardian November 25, 2004 Emma Young Andy Russell does not object to sniffer dogs. "They find leaks in oil pipelines, they find people, they detect drugs and explosives. Obviously they're very important," he says. But they do have weaknesses. They get hungry. They get bored. And if sent into a room filled with poisonous gas, they die. Clearly, there is room for improvement. On Russell's desk in the engineering department at Monash university, Me ...

'Swarm-bots' offer sniff of the future Mini-robots with a sense of smell are on the march. Emma Young investigates November 25, 2004 The Guardian Andy Russell does not object to sniffer dogs. "They find leaks in oil pipelines, they find people, they detect drugs and explosives. Obviously they're very important," he says. But they do have weaknesses. They get hungry. They get bored. And if sent into a room filled with poisonous gas, they die. Clearly, there is room for improvement. On Ru ...

Softcom June 25 2004 PITTSBURGH, June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have developed small, throwable, remote-controlled robots designed for surveillance in urban warfare settings. Several of the robots are being sent to Iraq for testing, the scientists said. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, in conjunction with the U.S. Marine Corps' Warfighting Laboratory, developed the robots, known as Dragon Runners. The devices have the ability to see around corners and deliver information to Marine ...

'Trauma Pod' Robot to Save Soldiers' Lives on the Battlefield March 30, 2005 PhysOrg.com Imagine an automated medical treatment system that does not require onsite medical personnel on the front lines of battle, and is ready to receive, assess, and stabilize wounded soldiers during the critical hours following injury. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) has taken a significant step toward that goal by awarding an SRI International-led multi-orga ...

Currently, researchers with the Reverb project are attempting to blueprint the manner in which the human eye-brain system translates what it sees into control signals that provoke an immediate, effective response by actuators. This model will be used to wire the Scamp "eyes" to the robot's "brain." "Reverb enables researchers from a number of disciplines and institutions across the U.K. to work together to understand how the human nervous system integrates sensory information to guide behavior, ...

'Walking' octopus inspires soft robots June 7, 2005 BBC News The surprise discovery that octopi can "walk" along the sea bed on two tentacles has inspired scientists seeking to create of a new generation of soft, flexible robots. Two species of octopus have been observed moving in an upright bipedal stride since the discovery was announced in March this year. And scientists at the University of California at Berkeley believe they can develop artificial muscles for use in a new field of soft ...

125 teams build robots to compete in DARPA Grand Challenge Military & Aerospace Electronics January 24, 2005 WASHINGTON, 24 January 2005. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) reports a surge in applications from teams wanting to participate in DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 as the February 11, 2005, filing deadline approaches. The DARPA Grand Challenge is a field test of autonomous ground vehicles over rugged desert-type terrain for the purpose of advancing robotics technology ...

3D global and mobile sensor data fusion for mobile platform navigation May 2004 Steinhaus, P. Walther, M. Giesler, B. Dillmann, R., Inst. for Comput. Design & Fault Tolerance, Karlsruhe, Germany ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Efficient navigation of mobile platforms in dynamic, human centered environments is still an open ...

3D localization and tracking in unknown environments September 2003 By Saeedi, P. Lowe, D.G. Lawrence, P.D.; Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Canada Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003. You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper describes a vision-based system for 3D localization and tracking of a mobile robot in an unmod ...

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6D SLAM with an Application in Autonomous Mine Mapping 2004 Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) Stanford University Abstract: To create with an autonomous mobile robot a 3D volumetric map of a scene it is necessary to gage several 3D scans and to merge them into one consistent 3D model. This paper provides a new solution to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem with six degrees of freedom. Robot motion on natural ...

WashingtonPost.com October 9, 2004 By RICHARD C. LEWIS PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Four years ago, scientists thought they had found the perfect place to settle the Noah flood debate: A farmer's house on a bluff overlooking the Black Sea built about 7,500 years ago - just before tidal waves inundated the homestead, submerged miles of coastline and turned the freshwater lake into a salty sea. Some believed the rectangular site of stones and wood could help solve the age-old question of whether the Bl ...

A 'perfect storm' brewing in robotics April 2004 By Charles Sheehan, The Associated Press MSNBC Cheaper parts, military money could spur industry Researchers in robotics have traditionally faced two debilitating obstacles: terribly expensive parts and difficulty attracting funding from anyone outside of a small corps of true believers. But the field could be in line for a major jolt. Robotics experts see a “perfect storm” heading their way, thanks in no small part to the human ravages of ...

A Battlefield Bot That Won't Die August 2002 By Elliot Borin Wired News It's called, appropriately enough, the Spinner, a six-wheeled turtle of an unmanned ground combat vehicle that can -- unlike any other of its species -- be turned on its back and still keep on truckin' over virtually any terrain navigable by tanks 10 times heavier and considerably slower and less mobile. "We expect it to become the resupply and reconnaissance workhorse of the UGCV fleet," says John Bares, director o ...

A breed apart February 24, 2005 The Guardian BigDog trots purposefully across the landscape, splashing through puddles and pushing through the long grass. It might be slow by the standards of most dogs, but for a walking robot, BigDog is quite an athlete. According to Marc Raibert, president of Boston Dynamics, BigDog is the first of a new breed of walking robots that could revolutionise transport. Walking robots have been around for decades, but Robosapiens and friends are still just t ...

A Campaign in Autonomous Mine Mapping By C. Baker, A. Morris, D. Ferguson, S. Thayer, C. Whittaker, Z. Omohundro, C. Reverte, W. Whittaker, D H¨ahnel and S. Thrun, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), April, 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Unknown, unexplored and abandoned subterranean voids threaten mining operations, surface developments and the ...

A comparison of Gaussian and mean curvatures estimation methods on triangular meshes Sept. 2003 By Surazhsky, T. Magid, E. Soldea, O. Elber, G. Rivlin, E., Dept. of Appl. Math., Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003. You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Estimating intrinsic geometric properties of a surf ...

A comparison of pose estimation techniques: Hardware vs. video March 2005 Brad Grinstead*, Andreas Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi, Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, 334 Ferris Hall Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 Proceedings SPIE Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VII, Vol. 5804, Orlando, FL, pp. 166-173, March 2005. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT Robotic navigation req ...

A Comparison of Two Camera Configurations For Optic-Flow Based Navigation of a UAV Through Urban Canyons By Stefan Hrabar and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 2673 - 2680, Sep 2004. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract—We present a comparison of two camera co ...

A Constrained Optimization Approach to Globally Consistent Mapping By Ranjith Unnikrishnan and Alonzo Kelly, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA 2002 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '02), Vol. 1, October, 2002, pp. 564-569. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Mobile robot localization from large-scale appearance mosaics has been showing increasing promise as a lowcost, high-performance and infr ...

A Dangerous Path For Oregon Guard Soldiers katu.com January 12, 2005 By Elaine Murphy and KATU Web Staff Portland, Ore. - In this 2 Exclusive, Oregon National Guard soldiers who are in Iraq destroy an improvised explosive device (IED) before it destroys them. The soldiers, members of the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry, were in Tirmia, a town where terrorists prepared for the fight in Fallujah. Earlier in the day, they had traveled the same road, but on their way back, something stood in ...

A decentralized approach to formation maneuvers December 2003 Lawton, J.R.T. Beard, R.W. Young, B.J., Raytheon Missile Syst., Tucson, AZ, USA IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 19, Issue: 6 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper presents a behavior-based approach to formation maneuvers for groups of mobile robots. Complex formation maneuvers are decomposed into a sequenc ...

A Developmental Organization for Robot Behavior February 2004 Roderic A. Grupen, Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper focuses on exploring how learning and development can be structured in synthetic (robot) systems. We present a developmental assembler for constructing reusable and temporally extended actions in a sequence. The discussion ad ...

A distributed architecture for Internet robot May 2004 Xueqiao Hou Jianbo Su, Dept. of Autom., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Volume 4 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper describes a novel distributed networked architecture for an intelligent robot. It is proposed to address two challenges for an Internet/LAN based ro ...

A fascinating visit to a high-tech operating room February 3, 2005 By Kristen Gerencher Investor's Business Day SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- When a 31-year-old woman suffering from severe endometriosis needed treatment and a hysterectomy, Stanford University Hospital laparoscopic surgeon Dr. Camran Nezhat bypassed the traditional tool tray for more sophisticated aid: A robot. About a dozen surgeons and fellows in advanced training with Nezhat were still "prepping" the patient and steril ...

A FOLLOW-THE-LEADER APPROACH TO SERPENTINE ROBOT MOTION PLANNING By Howie Choset and Wade Henning, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT. Serpentine robots oer advantages over traditional mobile robots and robot arms because they have enhanced exibility and reachability, especially in convoluted environments. These robots are well suited to inspect large space-fairing t ...

A Formal Analysis and Taxonomy of Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J. Mataric; USC Robotics Research Labs International Journal of Robotics Research, 23(9):939-954, Sep 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Despite more than a decade of experimental work in multi-robot systems, important theoretical aspects of multi-robot coordination mechanisms have, to date, been largely untreated. To address this issue,we focus on the ...

A Formal Analysis of Potential Energy in a Multiagent System 2004 William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Rodney Heil Computer Science Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. I. INTRODUCTION The focus of our research is to build sensor network systems, specically, to design rapidly deployable, scalable, adaptive, cost-effective, and robust networks (i.e., swarms, or large arrays) of autonomous distributed mobile sensi ...

A formal framework for the study of task allocation in multi-robot systems By Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J. Mataric´; Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles July 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: Despite more than a decade of experimental work in multi-robot systems, important theoretical aspects of multi-robot coordina ...

A Framework for Comparing Agent Architectures By Aaron Sloman, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham England and Matthias Scheutz, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN In Proceedings of UKCI 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Research on algorithms and representations once dominated AI. Recently the importance of architectures has been acknowledged, but researchers have d ...

A framework for implementing cooperative motion on industrial controllers June 2004 Braun, B.M. Starr, G.P. Wood, J.E. Lumia, R. Aerosp. Corp., Albuquerque, NM, USA; IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 20, Issue: 3 On page(s): 583- 589 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract The use of two or more robots jointly manipulating a common object, termed cooperative control, has many a ...

A Framework for Steering Dynamic Robotic Locomotion Systems 1 February 2003 Kenneth A. McIsaac Department of Elec. and Comp. Eng., University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canaga N6G 1H1 and James P. Ostrowski General Robotics Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Walnut Street, Philedelphia, PA 19104-6228 International Journal of Robotics Research Volume 22 Issue 2 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to v ...

A Framework for Studying Multi-Robot Task Allocation By Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J. Mataric, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Presented at the International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, Washinton, DC, May 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Although many multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) architectures can be found in the literature, relatively little has been said regarding the fundamental theoreti ...

Emediawire September 19 2004 For the first time in history, a robot has built its own synthetic central nervous system and then learned not only to walk, but how to autonomously enter and navigate the corridors of complex buildings. (PRWEB) September 19, 2004 -- This dramatic experiment was recently conducted at Imagination Engines, Inc. (IEI) in St. Louis, Missouri. Company President & CEO, Dr. Stephen Thaler points out that heretofore, scientists in the field of artificial intelligence have ...

AutoWeek June 25, 2004 By MARK VAUGHN THE STEPFORD WIVES ARE already here, they’re just still in pieces. The Jetsons car is here, too, but it needs work. Communication by thought is here as well, we think. The WIRED NextFest in San Francisco was a three-day-long peek into the future. There were automotive items there, but we’ve seen them all already: GM brought its AUTOnomy, Hy-Wire and fuel-cell-powered HydroGen3 minivan; there was a Smart Roadster present to highlight NextFest-presenting- ...

A Fuzzy Behavior-Based Control for Mobile Robots Using Adaptive Fusion Units January 2005 Authors: Watanabe, Keigo 1; Izumi, Kiyotaka 2; Maki, Junnosuke 3; Fujimoto, Katsuharu Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: It is known that a behavior-based control approach is effective for acquiring an intelligent control system of robots. However, further improvements are required for making any behavior-based control system robust against changes in the environments. A module learning m ...

A Fuzzy Perceptual Model for Ultrasound Sensors Applied to Intelligent Navigation of Mobile Robots Year of Publication: 2003 Authors Eugenio Aguirre Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, University of Granada, 18071-Granada, Spain. eaguirre@decsai.ugr.es Antonio González Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, University of Granada, 18071-Granada, Spain. gonzalez@decsai.ugr.es ...

A Gain-Switching Control Scheme for Position-Error-Based Bilateral Teleoperation: Contact Stability Analysis and Controller Design March 2004 Liy Nia Handshake Interactive Technologies Inc., 40 Weber Street East, Lobby Suite 50, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2H 6R3 and David W. L. Wang Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 International Journal of Robotics Research Volume 23 Issue 3 - Publication Date: 1 ...

A General, Local Algorithm for Robot Formations By Jakob Fredslund 1 and Maja J. Mataric' 2 1 Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark 2 USC Robotics Lab, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems October 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: We study the problem of achieving global ...

A Generalized Region-based Approach for Multi-target Tracking in Outdoor Environments By Boyoon Jung and Gaurav S. Sukhatme; Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), New Orleans, LA April 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We propose a generalized region-based approach to multi target tracking wh ...

A Generic Framework for Robotic Navigation March, 2003 By Chris Urmson 1, Reid Simmons 1, and Issa Nesnas 2 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109 IEEE Aerospace Conference 2003, Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper describes progress in the development of a navigation framework for the Coupled-Layer Architecture for Ro ...

A global output-feedback controller for simultaneous tracking and stabilization of unicycle-type mobile robots June 2004 Khac Duc Do Zhong-Ping Jiang Jie Pan Sch. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 20, Issue: 3 On page(s): 589- 594 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract We present a time-varying global output-feedback controller that solves both tracking and stabilization for unicycle-type mobile robots simultaneously at the torque level. The controller synthesis is based on a coordinate transformation, Lyapunov's direct method, and backstepping technique. Simulations demonstrate the result.

Podsedkowski, L.; Nowakowski, J.; Idzikowski, M.; and Vizvary, I. 2001. A new solution for path planning in partially known or unknown environments for nonholonomic mobile robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 34:145– 152. Rabin, S. 2000. A* speed optimizations. In DeLoura, M., ed., Game Programming Gems, 272–287. Rockland, MA: Charles River Media. Ramalingam, G., and Reps, T. 1996. An incremental algorithm for a generalization of the shortest-path problem. Journal of Algorithms 21:267–305 ...

A Hierarchical Architecture for Behavior-Based Robots By Monica N. Nicolescu and Maja J. Matari´c, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, 941 West 37th Place, Mailcode 0781, Los Angeles, CA 900890781 International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Agents), Bologna, Italy, Jul 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT Behavior-based systems (BBS) have been effective in a variety of applications, but due t ...

A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to the Revisiting Problem in Mobile Robot Map Building. 2003 D. Fox, J. Ko, K. Konolige, and B. Stewart. Proc. of the International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR-03) Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present an application of hierarchical Bayesian estimation to robot map building. The revisiting problem occurs when a robot has to decide whether it is seeing a previously-built portion of a map, or is exploring ...

A Hierarchical Object Based Representation for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping By Chieh-Chih Wang, ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia and Charles Thorpe, Qatar Campus, Carnegie Mellon University, Doha, Qatar IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September, 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Accomplishing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in ver ...

A Hierarchical, Multi-Resolutional Moving Object Prediction Approach for Autonomous On-Road Driving By Schlenoff, C., Madhavan, R., Barbera, T., Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Proceedings of the 2004 ICRA Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 26 - May 1, 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this paper, we present a hierarchical multi-resolutional approach for moving object prediction v ...

A high-speed VLSI design and ASIC implementation for constructing Euclidean distance-based discrete Voronoi diagram April 2004 Sudha, N. Sridharan, K., Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Madras, Chennai, India IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 20, Issue: 2 On page(s): 352- 358 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract In this paper, we present a new algorithm to c ...

A Human Motion-Based Environmental Complexity Measure for Robotics By Dylan A. Shell and Maja J. Mataric´ Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: This paper describes how environmental complexity measures can be employed in the process of ...

A hybrid scheduling and control system architecture for warehouse management December 2003 Byung-In Kim Heragu, S.S. Graves, R.J. St Onge, A., Dept. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Univ. of Memphis, TN, USA IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 19, Issue: 6 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract In recent years, the hybrid control framework has received attention from the research community. ...

A Hybrid-Control Approach to the Parking Problem of a Wheeled Vehicle Using Limited View-Angle Visual Feedback April-May 2004 P. Murrieri, D. Fontanelli and A. Bicchi Interdepartmental Research Center “Enrico Piaggio”, University of Pisa, via Diotisalvi, 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy International Journal of Robotics Research Volume 23 Issue 4/5- Publication Date: 1 April-May 2004 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. In this paper we consider the mobil ...

A lake before Tahoe? July 1, 2005 Merry Thomas BONANZA STAFF WRITER North Lake Tahoe Bonanza Unbeknownst to many, including scientists, a lake existed in the Tahoe Basin before Lake Tahoe. Discovered this May, geologists from two universities found evidence of an ancestral Lake Tahoe, according to Dr. Richard Schweikert of the University of Nevada, Reno, geology department. "We found an overlay of glacial deposits," he said. "Our best estimate is that Lake Tahoe is at least two million y ...

A leg configuration sensory system for dynamical body state estimates in a hexapod robot September 2003 By Pei-Chun Lin Komsuoglu, H. Kodistchek, D.E.; Dept. of Mech. Eng., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003. You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract We report on a novel leg strain sensory system for the autonomous robo ...

Technician July 21 2004 Ben McNeely A class of robots, in the future, evolve from their current programming, instilled with three basic laws to guide their actions and logically deduce that humanity is killing itself. They in turn "protect" humanity from itself by overthrowing the government. This view of robots is not quite what Isaac Asimov was going for when he published his short story collection, "I, Robot" in 1951. But that is the basic plot of the new movie that bears his works' name ...

A Machine With a Mind of Its Own August 2004 By Oliver Morton WIRED Magazine For a machine that's changing the world, the device on the lab bench in front of me doesn't look very impressive - it just goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. A contraption about the size of a human hand moves from side to side along a track. At the far right end of its trajectory, a proboscis-like pipette pecks into a foil-covered plastic container and sucks up some liquid; the hand moves a foot o ...

A MARKET APPROACH TO TIGHTLY-COUPLED MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION: FIRST RESULTS By Nidhi Kalra and Anthony Stentz, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Proceedings of the ARL Collaborative Technologies Alliance Symposium, May, 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT In multi-robot systems, a group of robots cooperate to accomplish tasks more e±ciently than could a single robot. In this paper, we apply the market approach to t ...

A MATTER OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE June 10, 2005 Khaleej Times Online The reason why AI is an important area of research is not only because it aims to construct 'intelligent' computers, but also because it can attack problems that are very hard to solve using traditional computer science methods, says Dr. Michael Rovatsos in an interview with ANSHUMAN JOSHI. One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orde ...

A Mechanism for Dynamic Coordination of Multiple Robots July 2004 Luiz Chaimowicz1;2, Vijay Kumar1 and Mario F. M. Campos2 1GRASP Laboratory { University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 19104 2DCC { Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, 31270-010 Autonomous Robots, Volume 17, Issue 1, July 2004: Pages 7 – 21. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this paper, we present a mechanism for coordinating multiple robots i ...

A micro-rover navigation and control system for autonomous planetary exploration April 2004 Authors: Landzettel K.; Steinmetz B-M.; Brunner B.; Arbter K.; Pollefeys M.; Vergauwen M.; Moreas R.; Xu F.; Steinicke L.; Fontaine B Publisher: VSP Abstract: This paper describes an end-to-end control system for autonomous navigation of a small vehicle at a remote place, e.g. in space for planetary exploration. Due to a realistic background of this study the proposed method has to deal with limite ...

A Mobile Hyper Redundant Mechanism for Search and Rescue Tasks By A. Wolf, H. Ben Brown Jr., R. Casciola, A. Costa, M. Schwerin, E. Shammas and Howie Choset, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 2003, Volume 3, Pages 2889-2895 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this work we introduce a new concept of a search and rescue robo ...

A Mobile Phone That Controls a Rolling Camera March 11, 2005 John Blau, IDG News Service PCWorld HANOVER, GERMANY -- What's a technology show without a wacky device? Here's one that lives up to that billing: a camera on wheels that can be controlled remotely with a mobile phone using short-range Bluetooth technology. Why you would want or need to do that is another question. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Today demonstrated the wireless robotic device, called Rob-1, at its CeBIT booth ...

A Modular Concept of the Robotic Vehicle for Demining Operations May 2005 Authors: HavlÍk, tefan Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: Paper analyses some most important characteristics that should be taken into consideration in building the robotic demining vehicle. Based on previous experiences from the development of demining technology the modular concept of the multipurpose vehicle and some its main functional parts are discussed. Such robotic vehicle can be used as general ...

A Modular Control System for a Cognitive Robotic Architecture July 18-20, 2005 By P. Ratanaswasd, W. Dodd, J. Phillips, K. Kawamura, and D. Noelle Center for Intelligent Systems Vanderbilt University 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Seattle, WA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Novel, complex movement tasks present a daunting challenge to an independent robotic system. This paper details a solution to the problem of generating such motions by selecting relevant behaviors with a Working Memory System and combining the selected behaviors with error-based control. This system is used to drive motion within the cognitive framework of the humanoid robot ISAC.

A modular dynamic simulation algorithm for complex robot systems May 2004 Bonaventura, C.S. Jablokow, K.W., ZETA-TECH Assoc. Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ, USA ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Volume 4 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper presents a modular approach for the dynamic modelling and efficient simulation of complex robot systems composed of multipl ...

A motion-planning approach to folding: from paper craft to protein folding February 2004 Guang Song Amato, N.M., Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 20, Issue: 1 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract In this paper, we present a framework for studying folding problems from a motion-planning perspective. The version of th ...

A Multi-robot Approach to Stealthy Navigation in the Presence of an Observer By Ashley Tews, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Maja J. Mataric Computer Science Department, University of Southern California IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 2379-2385, New Orleans, LA, May 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this paper we propose a simple reactive method for multiple robots carrying out sequential low-visibility navigat ...

A Multiagent Approach to Qualitative Landmark-Based Navigation September 2003 Authors: Busquets D.1; Sierra C.2; de Màntaras R.L Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: In this paper we present a multiagent system for landmark-based navigation in unknown environments. We propose a bidding mechanism to coordinate the actions requested by the different agents. The navigation system has been tested on a real robot on indoor unstructured environments. The full text article is available for purchase

A Multimodal Hierarchial Approach to Robot Learning by Imitation 2004 Weber, Cornelius and Elshaw, Mark and Zochios, Alex and Wermter, Stefan Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Lund University Cognitive Studies Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this paper we propose an approach to robot learning by imitation that uses the multimodal inputs of language, vision and motor. In our approach a student robot learns fr ...

A Navigation System for Assistant Robots Using Visually Augmented POMDPs Year of Publication: 2005 Authors María Elena López Electronics Department, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain 28805 Luis Miguel Bergasa Electronics Department, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain 28805 Rafael Barea Electronics Department, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain 28805 María Soledad Escudero Electronics Department, University of Alca ...

Report Date: 19 MAR 2004 Authors: SPATIAL INTEGRATED SYSTEMS INC ROCKVILLE MD Abstract: The development of a neuroprosthesis system utilizing spatial feedback control is presented in this project final report. During this phase, the RobotEyes (TradeMark) Functional Electrical Stimulation System (REFES) was developed as an intelligent vision based system. The system has capabilities in image capture and processing within a related small working environment. The working environment can be a fixe ...

A New Actuation Approach for Human Friendly Robot Design April-May 2004 M. Zinn, B. Roth, Design Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. Stanford, CA 94305, USA O. Khatib and J.K. Salisbury Robotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University. Stanford, CA 94305, USA International Journal of Robotics Research Volume 23 Issue 4/5- Publication Date: 1 April-May 2004 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full t ...

A New Approach to Humanitarian Demining: Part 1: Mobile Platform for Operation on Unstructured Terrain May 2005 Authors: Debenest, Paulo 1; Fukushima, Edwardo 1; Tojo, Yuki 1; Hirose, Shigeo Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: Landmines can deprive whole areas of valuable resources, and continue to kill and cause injuries years after the end of armed conflicts. Armored vehicles are used for mine clearance, but with limited reliability. The final inspection of minefields is st ...

A New Approach to Humanitarian Demining: Part 2: Development and Analysis of Pantographic Manipulator May 2005 Authors: Debenest, Paulo 1; Fukushima, Edwardo 1; Tojo, Yuki 1; Hirose, Shigeo Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: Humanitarian demining is an application in which the use of tele-operated machines and mechanisms has been gaining acceptance recently. Actually, demining is just one among many other field applications that require a high degree of mobility, manipulation ...

A New Low Cost System for Autonomous Robot Heading and Position Localization in a Closed Area September 2003 Authors: Hernández S.1; Torres J.M.2; Morales C.A.2; Acosta L. Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: A low cost system for the localization of mobile indoor robots is presented. The system is composed of an emitter located on a wall and a receptor on top of the robot. The emitter is a laser pointer acting like a beacon, and the receptor is a cylinder made out of 32 independent photovoltaic cells. The robot's position and orientation are obtained from the moments when the laser crosses each cell. The full text article is available for purchase

His colleague, Jeff Grossman, spoke of the evolving intelligence of robot soldiers. "Now, maybe, we're a mammal," he says. "We're trying to get to the level of a primate, where we are making sensible decisions." The hunter-killer at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center is one of five broad categories of military robots under development. Another scouts buildings, tunnels and caves. A third hauls tons of weapons and gear and performs searches and reconnaissance. A fourth is a drone in flig ...

A New Multi-Sensor Registration Technique for Three Dimensional Scene Modeling with Application to Unmanned Vehicle Mobility Enhancement March 2005 Faysal Boughorbel, Andreas Koschan*, and Mongi Abidi, Imaging, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer, Engineering, 409 Ferris Hall, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States Proc. of SPIE Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VII, Vol. 5804, Orlando, FL, pp. 174-181, March 2005 Please visi ...

A Novel Fully Decoupled Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Parallel Wrist June 2004 M. Carricato, and V. Parenti-Castelli DIEM—Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy International Journal of Robotics Research Volume 23 Issue 6 - Publication Date: 1 June 2004 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. In this paper we present a novel pointing parallel mechanism with fully decoupled degrees of freed ...

A novel gait generation for biped walking robots based on mechanical energy constraint June 2004 Asano, F. Yamakita, M. Kamamichi, N. Zhi-Wei Luo; Bio-Mimetic Control Res. Center, Inst. of Phys. & Chem. Res., Nagoya, Japan IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 20, Issue: 3 On page(s): 565- 573 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper proposes novel energy-based gait genera ...

A numerical test for the closure properties of 3-D grasps June 2004 Xiangyang Zhu Han Ding Wang, M.Y. Sch. of Mech. Eng., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China; IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 20, Issue: 3 On page(s): 543- 549 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper presents a numerical test for the closure properties (force closure and form closure) of multifingered grasp ...

A Paradigm for Dynamic Coordination of Multiple Robots: Special Issue on Analysis and Experiments in Distributed Multi-Robot Systems (Guest Editors: Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos and Stergios I. Roumeliotis) July 2004 Authors: Chaimowicz L.1; Kumar V.2; Campos M.F.M Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Abstract: In this paper, we present a paradigm for coordinating multiple robots in the execution of cooperative tasks. The basic idea in the paper is to assign to each robot in the team, a r ...

A parameter variation modeling approach for enterprise optimization August 2003 Masin, M. Shaikh, N.I. Wysk, R.A., Harold & Inge Marcus Dept. of Ind. & Manuf. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 19, Issue: 4 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract The past two decades have seen significant improvements in optimization modeling ...

A pseudodistance function and its applications April 2004 Xiangyang Zhu Han Ding Tso, S.K. Sch. of Mech. Eng., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 20, Issue: 2 On page(s): 344- 352 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract By using the concept of gauge function, a pseudodistance function is defined for quantifying the clearance or the penetration depth ...

A real-time expectation-maximization algorithm for acquiring multiplanar maps of indoor environments with mobile robots June 2004 Thrun, S. Martin, C. Yufeng Liu Hahnel, D. Emery-Montemerlo, R. Chakrabarti, D. Burgard, W., Comput. Sci. Dept., Stanford Univ., CA, USA IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, On page(s): 433- 443 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract T ...

A Real-Time Image Recognition System for Tiny Autonomous Mobile Robots Year of Publication: 2005 Authors Stefan Mahlknecht Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology Roland Oberhammer Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology Gregor Novak Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers Norwell, MA, USA ABSTRACT Intelligent sensors for mobile robots play an important rol ...

A Region-based Approach for Cooperative Multi-Target Tracking in a Structured Environment By Boyoon Jung and Gaurav S. Sukhatme, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2764-2769, EPFL, Switzerland, Semptember 30 - October 4, 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper addresses the problem of tracking multiple targets using a network of communicating robots ...

A rescue robot system for collecting information designed for ease of use — a proposal of a rescue systems concept March 2005 Authors: Ito, Kazuyuki; Yang, Zhixiao; Saijo, Kazuhiko; Hirotsune, Kazuyuki; Gofuku, Akio; Matsuno, Fumitoshi Publisher: VSP Abstract: A remote controlled robot for collecting information in disasters, e.g. earthquakes, is one of most effective applications of robots, because it is very dangerous for human beings to locate survivors in collapsed buildings and, in a ...

A robot for building planes 4/13/05 innovations report Fatronik Technological Centre has put the finishing touches to the development of a portable climbing robot capable of carrying out precision operations and originally designed for the aeronautics sector. Despite being a highly technological industry, most aeronautical assemblies are still little automated, given the ever greater size of aeroplanes and the need to have large and expensive means of production. Given this problem, Fatro ...

A robot Named Boudreaux November 08, 2004 By Angus Lind Copyright 2004 The Times-Picayune Publishing Company The next time humans return to space to explore the moon or Mars, they could be accompanied by Boudreaux and Thibodeaux. Technically identified as "Extra Vehicular Activity Robotic Assistants," the two dog-like robots were named by robotics engineer Jeffrey Graham of S&K Technologies, a NASA contractor from Baton Rouge. Graham, a 1991 LSU graduate, nicknamed Boudreaux in honor of ...

A robot That Ties The Knot February 10, 2005 PhysOrg.com An ASME member and retired engineer who once designed biomedical instruments is busy in his basement building a machine that can automatically tie a knot in a necktie. Dr. Seth Goldstein, who has worked as a mechanical engineer for 40 years, will complete the robotic device this summer for display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. There, the job of Why Knot will be to inspire the analytical and creative abilities of young men a ...

A Robot to Stop the Earth Discover Magazine March 2004 Every year landslides cause 25 to 50 deaths and $1.5 billion in damage in the United States. They account for 15 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in Europe. And in December, a single event killed more than 200 people in the Philippines. Sending workers to stabilize mountainsides using steel rods and cement can help prevent disaster, but it introduces new difficulties. Vibrating drills generate noxious dust and loosen heavy, ...

The Electric New Paper OCT 18, 2004 A MOUSE uses its whiskers to feel its way around. But what if you cut the whiskers out and stick them on a robot? A robot with real mouse whiskers could represent an important step towards developing simple robots that navigate by mimicking rodents. Such mini robots could eventually be used to perform repairs in pipes. The bristly bot, known as AMouse (Artificial Mouse) was built by researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan and the University ...

A Robotic CAD System using a Bayesian Framework Kamel Mekhnacha, 1, Emmanuel Mazer 2, and Pierre Bessiere 1 1 Leibniz/IMAG, 46, Avenue Felix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble, France 1 GRAVIR/IMAG, INRIA Rh^one-Alpes, ZIRST, 38330 Montbonnot, France Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present in this paper a Bayesian CAD system for robotic applications. We address the problem of the propagation of geometric uncertainties and how esian CAD system for robotic ap ...

A robotic platform for testing moth-inspired plume tracking strategies May 2004 Rutkowski, A.J. Edwards, S. Willis, M.A. Quinn, R.D. Causey, G.C., Dept. of Mech. & Aerosp. Eng., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, USA ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract A mobile autonomous robot capable of tracking an odor plume to it ...

A Robotic Wayfinding System for the Visually Impaired By Vladimir Kulyukin, Chaitanya Gharpure, Pradnya Sute, Nathan De Graw, John Nicholson; Department of Computer Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84322 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-04), San Jose, CA. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present an emerging indoor assisted navigation system for the visually impaired. The core ...

A RoboticWalker That Provides Guidance By Aaron Morris 1, Raghavendra Donamukkala 1, Anuj Kapuria 1, Aaron Steinfeld 1, Judith T. Matthews 2, Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob 1, Sebastian Thrun 1,2, 1 School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2 School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '03), May, 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This p ...

A Rolling Robo-Spy May 24, 2002 By Paul Eng ABCNews.com High-flying, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) have helped soldiers spot and fight terrorists in Afghanistan's hilly terrain. But some military planners believe that UAVs won't be as useful in future battles — especially those that will take place in urban landscapes and buildings. In such confined spaces, soldiers would be more concerned with more immediate dangers — such as threats around the next corner, as well as what's behind the bui ...

A Scalable Approach to Human-Robot Interaction By Ashley Tews, Maja J. Mataric´, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme USC Robotics Lab, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Taipei, Taiwan September 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: Much of the current research in human-robot interaction is concerned with single ...

A Semi-Autonomous Robot for Stripping Paint from Large Vessels July/August 2003 B. Ross, J. Bares, and C. Fromme National Robotics Engineering Consortium, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA International Journal of Robotics Research Volume 22 Issue 7/8 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. The National Robotics Engineering Consortium and UltraStrip Systems Inc. have developed a highly flexible and productive r ...

A Set Theoretic Approach to Dynamic Robot Localization and Mapping Year of Publication: 2004 Authors M. Di Marco Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Siena, Via Roma, 56-53100 Siena, Italy. dimarco@dii.unisi.it A. Garulli Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Siena, Via Roma, 56-53100 Siena, Italy. garulli@dii.unisi.it A. Giannitrapani Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Siena, Via Roma, 56-53100 Siena, Italy. g ...

A simple and analytical procedure for calibrating extrinsic camera parameters February 2004 Fei-Yue Wang, Key Lab. of Complex Syst. & Intelligence Sci., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Volume: 20, Issue: 1 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper presents a simple and analytical procedure for calibrating extrinsic camera parameters. First, a ca ...

A Simulation Framework for Evaluating Mobile Robots By Stephen Balakirsky and Elena Messina, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Intelligent Systems Division, Gaithersburg, MD Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, August 13-15, 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract As robotic technologies mature, we are moving from simple systems that roam our laboratories to heterogeneous gro ...

A SMA actuated artificial earthworm May 2004 Menciassi, A. Gorini, S. Pernorio, G. Dario, P., Center for Res. in Microeng., Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy; ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper presents the design and development of a microrobot which aims to replicate the locomotion principle of earthworms. ...

A Small Rolling Spy for the Marines By Paul Eng ABC News May 24 High-flying, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) have helped soldiers spot and fight terrorists in Afghanistan's hilly terrain. But some military planners believe that UAVs won't be as useful in future battles — especially those that will take place in urban landscapes and buildings. In such confined spaces, soldiers would be more concerned with more immediate dangers — such as threats around the next corner, as well as what's behind ...

A SMALL SUBMARINE ROBOT FOR EXPERIMENTS IN UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS By Vitaly Bokser, Carl Oberg, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Aristides Requicha, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 International Federation of Automatic Control Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV), 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: This paper describes a small underwater robot designed for experiments with sensor-actuator networks. The robot is based on the mote platform, which is used extensively in the sensor networking community as an experimental testbed. The components and construction of the robot are described. Preliminary tests of depth regulation and temperature measurement are reported and analyzed.

A Sony subsidiary creates a robot that is designed to play with toddlers 11 May 2005 News Target In a nursery school in California, there is a robot named Qrio that actually plays with children up to two years of age. This robot was designed by Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories Inc. in order to see how a robot can be accepted by humans and live in harmony with them. The children at the nursery school were initially unsure what to make of the robot, but they now accept it as one of ...

A Spatio-temporal Extension to Isomap Nonlinear Dimension Reduction By Odest Chadwicke Jenkins & Maja J Matari´c, Robotics Research Laboratory, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, 941 W. 37th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pages 441-448, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Jul 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present an extension of ...

A Study of Polynomial Curvature Clothoid Paths for Motion Planning for Car-like Robots By Mihail Pivtoraiko and Alonzo Kelly Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-68, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this report we present an overview of our investigation into constructing motion templates. We start with a successful implementation of elementary concepts that worked well on previous projects, then proceed with a generalization of that approach through a study of spatial distinctness of the same type of paths, and finally present a further generalization that looks at all possible motions through space.

A Submersible Robot Dives for Steamship Gold The New York Times November 16, 2004 By WILLIAM J. BROAD When the 250-foot Odyssey Explorer docked here this week to unload a trove of gold coins and valuable artifacts from the wreck of the Republic, a 19th-century steamer, the Explorer's deck was a blur of activity, bristling with the modern technology now necessary for the recovery of sunken treasure. A seven-ton submersible robot held pride of place. Its flexible arm was equipped with tiny su ...

A Survey of Commercially Available and Proven Remote Control Machines for Excavation and Recovery of Buried Ordnance March 1, 2002 By C. Pruneda; A Bilstrom Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (US) Office of Scientific and Technical Information Description/Abstract The issue of unexploded ordnance excavation and removal is complicated by the interaction between the independent robotics systems (e.g. manipulator, sensors, and software). A review of commercially available robotic systems ...

A survey of probabilistic models, using the Bayesian Programming methodology as a unifying framework 2003 Julien Diard, Pierre Bessière, and Emmanuel Mazer, Laboratoire GRAVIR / IMAG – CNRS, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 655 avenue de l’Europe, 38330 Montbonnot Saint Martin FRANCE Proceedings International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (IEEE-CIRAS), Singapore. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper presents a surv ...

A Tale of Two Helicopters By Srikanth Saripalli1, Jonathan M. Roberts2, Peter I. Corke2, Gregg Buskey3, Gaurav S. Sukhatme1 1Robotics Research Lab, University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA 2CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology PO Box 883, Kenmore, Qld 4069, Australia 3University of Queensland St. Lucia, Qld 4066, Australia IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 805-810, Oct 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in ...

A team of mobile robots and monitoring sensors—from concept to experiment July 2004 Author: Skrzypczyski P. Publisher: VSP Abstract: This paper describes the underlying concepts, architecture and implementation of a robotic system consisting of heterogenous mobile robots and stationary sensors, cooperating in a task of collective perception and world modeling. The navigation capability of a group of robots can be improved by sharing available information about the state of the environment ...

A Test Bed for Autonomous Formation Flying By David J. Naffin and Gaurav S. Sukhatme; Robotic Embedded System Laboratory, Robotics Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles California 90089-0781 Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-02-412, 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper outlines the design of an autonomous flying vehicle (AFV) for use in research ...

A Testbed for Experiments with Sensor/Actuator Networks By Mohammed Rahimi, Rohit Mediratta, Karthik Dantu, Gaurav S. Sukhatme; Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781, USA Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-02-417, 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We describe a table-top testbed for experiments in mobile sensor networks. The t ...

A Tiered Planning Strategy for Biped Navigation By JOEL CHESTNUTT 1 and JAMES J. KUFFNER 1,2 1 Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA 2 Digital Human Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-41-6 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan 135-0064 Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids'04), 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper ...

A Unified Model For Developmental Robotics 2003 Williams Paquier, Nicolas Do Huu, Raja Chatila, LAAS/CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse Cedex 04, France Proceedings Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems 101, pages pp. 173-174, Boston, MA, USA. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present the architecture and distributed algorithms of an implemented system called NeuSter, th ...

A Versatile Implementation of the TraderBots Approach for Multirobot Coordination By M. Bernardine DIAS, Robert ZLOT, Marc ZINCK, Juan P. GONZALEZ, and Anthony (Tony) STENTZ The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA March, 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper reports details of a versatile implementation of the TraderBots approach: A market-based approach to multirobot coordination. The architectural layout, implementation details, and variety of features are described. Experimental results are presented using a team of Pioneer II DX robots engaged in exploration and distributed sensing tasks. Different features and strengths of the approach and the implementation are highlighted in the experimental results.

A-380 soars in style at Paris Air Show 21 June , 2005 walletwatch.com Chennai: If there were record crowds at the Paris Air Show, especially on the last three days when the exhibition was open to the public, it was because of one aircraft - the Airbus-380. As many as 4,80,000 people visited Le Bourget, outside Paris, where for a week, beginning June 13, the world's aviation industry had gathered to showcase its latest. Some 3,00,000 people visited the show last year; the previous recor ...

Accurate and Flexible Simulation for Dynamic, Vision-Centric Robots By J. Go, B. Browning, and M. Veloso, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004 tech. report CMU-CS-04-180 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract As robots become more complex by incorporating dynamic stability or greater mechanical degrees of freedom, the difficulty of developing control algorithms directly on the robot increases. This is especially true for l ...

Achieving Collaborative Interaction with a Humanoid Robot December 2003. By D. Sofge1, D. Perzanowski1, M. Skubic3, N. Cassimatis2, J. G. Trafton2, D. Brock2, M. Bugajska1, W. Adams1, A. Schultz 1,2Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC 20375 3 Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, Singapore Please visit the web site to view t ...

Active Damping of a Flexible Beam By Rasmus Olsson, Alessandro Bindi, Anders Robertsson 2004 Conference Paper Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper describes the active damping of a flexible beam connected to the end-effector of a robot manipulator. An observer-based feedback controller is developed and experimental results are presented. Iterative feedback tuning (IFT) is applied to shape the step response.

ACTIVE-TWIST ROTOR CONTROL APPLICATIONS FOR UAVs 2004 Matthew L. Wilbur* and W. Keats Wilkie ASC ABSTRACT The current state-of-the-art in active-twist rotor control is discussed using representative examples from analytical and experimental studies, and the application to rotary-wing UAVs is considered. Topics include vibration and noise reduction, rotor performance improvement, active blade tracking, stability augmentation, and rotor blade de-icing. A review of the current status of piezoelectric fiber composite actuator technology, the class of piezoelectric actuators implemented in active-twist rotor systems, is included. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety.

Active-Vision Control Systems For Complex Adversarial 3-D Environments By Eric N. Johnson, Anthony J. Calise, Allen R. Tannenbaum, Stefano Soatto, Naira Hovakimyan, and Anthony J. Yezzi Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2005 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This tutorial session covers recent developments in methods that utilize 2-D and 3-D imagery (e.g., from LADAR, visual, FLIR, acoustic-location) to enable aerial vehicles to autonomous ...

Ad-Hoc Localization Using Ranging and Sectoring By Krishna K. Chintalapudi, Amit Dhariwal, Ramesh Govindan, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA IEEE INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong, Mar 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Ad-hoc localization systems enable nodes in a sensor network to fix their positions in a global coordinate system using a relatively small number of anchor nodes that know ...

Adaptable machines By Scott Kirsner New York Times News Service Sun-Sentinel.com NAHANT, Mass.· Joseph Ayers was crouched over a laptop computer, watching a black lobster through a rectangular acrylic window. Ayers' shed is adjacent to a fiberglass saltwater tank that looks like an above-ground swimming pool, and through the window, he observed the 7-pound lobster clamber across the sandy bottom and struggle to surmount small rocks. "He's pitched backwards onto his tail, and his front le ...

Adapting Human Motion for the Control of a Humanoid Robot By Nancy S. Pollard 1, J.K. Hodgins 2, M.J. Riley 3, and C.G. Atkeson 4 1 Computer Science Department, Brown University. 2 School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. 3 College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology and ATR Human Information Science Laboratories. 4 Atkeson is at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and ATR Human Information Science Laboratories. Proceedings of the IEEE Inte ...

Adaptive control of robot manipulators using multiple neural networks September 2003 By Choon-Young Lee Ju-Jang Lee; Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003. You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract A new adaptive controller based on multiple neural networks for unce ...

Adaptive Dynamic Walking of a Quadruped Robot on Irregular Terrain Based on Biological Concepts 1 March 2003 Yasuhiro Fukuoka and Hiroshi Kimura Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan and Avis H. Cohen Department of Biology and Institute, for Systems Research, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA International Journal of Robotics Research Volume 22 Issue 3 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is re ...