Soft Robotics
Brains, behavior, and robotics
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Mind and Matter w hat is mind What is the relationship between mind and brain What is thought What are the mechanisms that give rise to imagination What is perception and how is it related to the object perceived What are emotions and why do we have them
Robotics for engineers
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Industrial robots, as other modern manufacturing systems, are advanced automation systems that utilize computers as an integral part of their control. Computers are now a Vital part of industrial automa tion. They run production lines and control stand-alone
Why Robotics
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Page 1. Robotics Enabling Autonomy in Challenging Environments Ioannis Rekleitis Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina CSCE 190 21 Oct. 2014 Ioannis Rekleitis 1 Page 2. Why Robotics Driverless Car TED talk: S. Thrun Underwater exploration, Barbados
Introduction to robotics : analysis, systems, applications
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2.3. Matrix Representation 31 2.3.1. Representation of a point in space 31 2.3.2. Representation of a vector in space 32 2.3.3. Representation of a frame at the origin of a reference frame 33 2.3.4. Representation of a frame in a reference frame 34 2.3.5. Representation of a Rigid Body
The grand challenges of Science Robotics
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One of the ambitions of Science Robotics is to deeply root robotics research in science while developing novel robotic platforms that will enable new scientific discoveries. Of our 10 grand challenges, the first 7 represent underpinning technologies that have a wider impact
Evolutionary robotics
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Evolutionary Robotics is a method for the automatic creation of autonomous robots [86]. It is inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest captured by evolutionary algorithms [54]. In Evolutionary Robotics , robots are considered as autonomous
Lorentz levitation technology: a new approach to fine motion robotics , teleoperation, haptic interfaces, and vibration isolation
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Recently, a new technology for stably levitating and controlling the position and orientation of a rigid body has been introduced. A unique feature is the use of Lorentz forces rather than the usual Maxwell forces as in magnetic bearings. The Lorentz force approach, which uses A humanoid robot is a robot that has a human-like shape. Since many robots in scientific fictions look like humans, a humanoid robot be the default of robots for most people. On the other hand, it is difficult to claim that robots should be humanoid robots which are
Reinforcement learning for humanoid robotics
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Reinforcement learning offers one of the most general framework to take traditional robotics towards true autonomy and versatility. However, applying reinforcement learning to high dimensional movement systems like humanoid robots remains an unsolved problem. In this
Issues in evolutionary robotics
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In this paper we propose and justify a methodology for the development of the control systems, orcognitive architectures, of autonomous mobile robots. We argue that the design by hand of such control systems becomes prohibitively di cult as complexity increases. We
Openrave: A planning architecture for autonomous robotics
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One of the challenges in developing real-world autonomous robots is the need for integrating and rigorously testing high-level scripting, motion planning, perception, and control algorithms. For this purpose, we introduce an open-source cross-platform software
Robotics education for all ages
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Robotics is a growing field that has the potential to significantly impact the nature of engineering and science education at all levels, from K-12 to graduate school. In this paper I briefly survey my experiences, as a robotics researcher and educator, of teaching robotics
A survey on policy search for robotics
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Policy search is a subfield in reinforcement learning which focuses on finding good parameters for a given policy parametrization. It is well suited for robotics as it can cope with high-dimensional state and action spaces, one of the main challenges in robot learning. We
Pneumatic artificial muscles: actuators for robotics and automation
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This article is intended as an introduction to and an overview of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles (PAMs). These are pneumatic actuators made mainly of a flexible and inflatable membrane. First, their concept and way of operation are explained. Next, the properties of these
A comparative analysis of actuator technologies for robotics
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There has been considerable progress in developing traditional actuator technologies for robotics in the past few years. Nevertheless, if we are to achieve the lightweight, high performance, and mobile robots envisioned for the future, new technologies be
E cient collision detection for animation and robotics
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The problem of collision detection or contact determination between two or more objects is fundamental to computer animation, physical based modeling, molecular modeling, computer simulated environments (eg virtual environments) and robot motion planning as
Medical robotics
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Today, robotic devices are used to replace missing limbs, perform delicate surgical procedures, deliver neurorehabilitation therapy to stroke patients, teach children with learning disabilities, and perform a growing number of other health related tasks. According
A new technique for fully autonomous and efficient 3 D robotics hand/eye calibration
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This paper describes a new technique for computing 3D position and orientation of a camera relative to the last joint of a robot manipulator in an eye-on-hand configuration. This is part of a trio for real-time 3D robotics eye, eye-to-hand, and hand calibrations, which use a Our goal is to allow you, a human operator, to control a machine, a remote robot. If you and the robot both occupy the same room, then this is a relatively well understood problem. But consider what happens if we move the remote robot to a laboratory in the next county and CSE PROJECTS