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Adel, Samar, Abbas Zaher, Nadia El Harouni, Adith Venugopal, Pratik Premjani, and Nikhilesh Vaid. "Robotic Applications in Orthodontics: Changing the Face of Contemporary Clinical Care." BioMed Research International 2021 (June 16, 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9954615.
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The last decade (2010-2021) has witnessed the evolution of robotic applications in orthodontics. This review scopes and analyzes published orthodontic literature in eight different domains: (1) robotic dental assistants; (2) robotics in diagnosis and simulation of orthodontic problems; (3) robotics in orthodontic patient education, teaching, and training; (4) wire bending and customized appliance robotics; (5) nanorobots/microrobots for acceleration of tooth movement and for remote monitoring; (6) robotics in maxillofacial surgeries and implant placement; (7) automated aligner production robotics; and (8) TMD rehabilitative robotics. A total of 1,150 records were searched, of which 124 potentially relevant articles were retrieved in full. 87 studies met the selection criteria following screening and were included in the scoping review. The review found that studies pertaining to arch wire bending and customized appliance robots, simulative robots for diagnosis, and surgical robots have been important areas of research in the last decade (32%, 22%, and 16%). Rehabilitative robots and nanorobots are quite promising and have been considerably reported in the orthodontic literature (13%, 9%). On the other hand, assistive robots, automated aligner production robots, and patient robots need more scientific data to be gathered in the future (1%, 1%, and 6%). Technological readiness of different robotic applications in orthodontics was further assessed. The presented eight domains of robotic technologies were assigned to an estimated technological readiness level according to the information given in the publications. Wire bending robots, TMD robots, nanorobots, and aligner production robots have reached the highest levels of technological readiness: 9; diagnostic robots and patient robots reached level 7, whereas surgical robots and assistive robots reached lower levels of readiness: 4 and 3, respectively.
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Tiryaki, Aydın, and Sibel Adıgüzel. "The Effect of STEM-Based Robotic Applications on the Creativity And Attitude of Students." Journal of Science Learning 4, no. 3 (July 1, 2021): 288–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/jsl.v4i3.29683.
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In the present study, the effects of STEM based robotics applications on students' creativity and scientific attitudes in the Electricity Unit of 7th grade have been investigated by using the nested pattern of the mixed method. Sixty students, 30 of whom are the experimental group and the other 30 constitute the control group, attending a post-school course in Istanbul in the academic year of 2018-2019, participated 2 weeks of pre-applications and 4 weeks of applications. TOSRA,to measure attitude towards science, and “Torrance Creative Thinking Test”,to measure creativity, were applied as pre and posttest. The data gained from the tests were analyzed with SPSS 21. Semi-structured interviews' data were analyzed by using content analysis. As a result, it was observed that STEM based robotics applications significantly increased students' creativity and attitudes towards science. Interview findings show that students enjoy using STEM applications that contain applications instead of theoretical knowledge. Using robotic and complex software materials to solve daily life problems, they felt like scientists during the practices and the applications affected their future career choices.Keywords STEM; creativity; robotic application; attitude; TOSRA
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Kassler, Michael. "Robotics for health care: a review of the literature." Robotica 11, no. 6 (November 1993): 495–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263574700019342.
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This paper surveys the scientific literature on present and future applications of robotics to health care. The term ‘health care’ refers to different forms of assistance rendered to people who are unable without such assistance to perform physical tasks that ‘healthy’ people accomplish unaided. Research efforts and accomplishments to date are concentrated in four main application areas: rehabilitation; patient transfer; assistance to surgery; and ‘microrobots’ suitable for use inside people. Some initial work has been done in other areas including robotic diagnosis and therapy.
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Acisli Celik, Sibel, and Ismet Ergin. "Opinions of Middle School Students on the Concept of Science and the Use of Robotic Systems." International Journal of Technology in Education 5, no. 1 (January 15, 2022): 154–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.46328/ijte.232.
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In this research, in the “Artvin gets Color with Science and Robotics-2”project, which was supported with the Project number 121B899 within the scope of the 2020/1 call period launched in the 15thyear of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) 4004-Nature Education and Science Schools Support Program, students were taught in science, robotics, artificial intelligence, It is aimed to examine his views on the concept of science and the use of robotic systems after active learning and by doing different scientific activities in the fields of astronomy and nature. The Project was carried out with the participation of 30 secondary school 6th and 7th grade students. Student personal information form, robotic pre-questionnaire, robotic satisfaction test, “What do you think is science?” and “If you were a scientist, what would you like to invent?” were used as data collection tools in the research. A two-question questionnaire and a semi-structured form for robotics activities were used. Quantitative data obtained from the research were analyzed according to the content analysis method in qualitative data by giving frequency and percentage values. From the analysis of the data obtained, it was determined that the project made a positive contribution to the students' perspectives on science and robotics. As a result of the study, students’ defined science as the effort to improve people's living conditions, to investigate unknown events in the universe and the world, to research, discover, produce and develop new things, and to change the World and people in which we live.
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Gonzalez-Aguirre, Juan Angel, Ricardo Osorio-Oliveros, Karen L. Rodríguez-Hernández, Javier Lizárraga-Iturralde, Rubén Morales Menendez, Ricardo A. Ramírez-Mendoza, Mauricio Adolfo Ramírez-Moreno, and Jorge de Jesús Lozoya-Santos. "Service Robots: Trends and Technology." Applied Sciences 11, no. 22 (November 12, 2021): 10702. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app112210702.
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The 2021 sales volume in the market of service robots is attractive. Expert reports from the International Federation of Robotics confirm 27 billion USD in total market share. Moreover, the number of new startups with the denomination of service robots nowadays constitutes 29% of the total amount of robotic companies recorded in the United States. Those data, among other similar figures, remark the need for formal development in the service robots area, including knowledge transfer and literature reviews. Furthermore, the COVID-19 spread accelerated business units and some research groups to invest time and effort into the field of service robotics. Therefore, this research work intends to contribute to the formalization of service robots as an area of robotics, presenting a systematic review of scientific literature. First, a definition of service robots according to fundamental ontology is provided, followed by a detailed review covering technological applications; state-of-the-art, commercial technology; and application cases indexed on the consulted databases.
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Úbeda, Andrés, Fernando Torres, and Santiago T. Puente. "Assistance Robotics and Biosensors 2019." Sensors 20, no. 5 (February 29, 2020): 1335. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20051335.
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This Special Issue is focused on breakthrough developments in the field of assistive and rehabilitation robotics. The selected contributions include current scientific progress from biomedical signal processing and cover applications to myoelectric prostheses, lower-limb and upper-limb exoskeletons and assistive robotics.
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Dolga, Valer, and Lia Dolga. "Analysis & Modelling Options of Elastic Actuators for New Robotics Uses." Advanced Materials Research 463-464 (February 2012): 1089–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.463-464.1089.
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Nowadays, robotics focused towards an interdisciplinary cooperation with other scientific fields, with the main goal of submitting solutions to improve the human life quality. This new orientation required the development of subsystems that differ from the common robotic components and match the new applications requisites. One of these preoccupations envisages the analysis and design of high performance actuators. The paper deals in this way with specific aspects characterizing the analysis and modelling of actuators with a serial elastic element.
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Jaybhay, Sarthak, Prasad Sanap, Rushikesh Satdive, Rushikesh Mali, and Prof Vaishali Jabade. "Warehouse Management BOT Using Arduino." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 11 (November 30, 2022): 1613–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.47620.
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bstract: Today’s modern world where technical and scientific developments are at a complete innovative intensity, the field of robotics also has experienced an immense bound. Nowadays, in many field robotics and automation is substituted “human touch” to make things easier and better. The critical situations such as aftermath of human and natural disasters, robots can be utilized instead of humans to avoid more casualties. Robotics can also be employed for warehouse management. Human beings pick and choose things up exclusive of thinking about the stages implicated. As a robotic arm or a simple robot system to move or pick up something, someone has to instruct it to execute numerous actions in a correct order for the movement of the robot. This work aims to contribute towards the above mentioned applications using a proposed model to control a warehouse using robot.
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Tzafestas, Spyros. "Editorial for the Special Issue on “ROBOETHICS”." Information 9, no. 12 (December 19, 2018): 331. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info9120331.
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Ethical and social issues of robotics have attracted increasing attention from the scientific and technical community over the years. These issues arise particularly in mental and sensitive robotic applications, such as robot-based rehabilitation, social robot (sociorobot) applications, and military robot applications. The purpose of launching this Special Issue was to publish high-quality papers addressing timely and important aspects of roboethics, and to serve as a dissemination source of novel ideas demonstrating the necessity of roboethics. The papers finally included in the Special Issue deal with fundamental aspects and address interesting deep questions in the roboethics and robophililosophy field.
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Panayiotou, Konstantinos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Christoforos Zolotas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, and Loukas Petrou. "A Framework for Rapid Robotic Application Development for Citizen Developers." Software 1, no. 1 (March 3, 2022): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/software1010004.
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It is common knowledge among computer scientists and software engineers that ”building robotics systems is hard”: it includes applied and specialized knowledge from various scientific fields, such as mechanical, electrical and computer engineering, computer science and physics, among others. To expedite the development of robots, a significant number of robotics-oriented middleware solutions and frameworks exist that provide high-level functionality for the implementation of the in-robot software stack, such as ready-to-use algorithms and sensor/actuator drivers. While the aforementioned focus is on the implementation of the core functionalities and control layer of robots, these specialized tools still require extensive training, while not providing the envisaged freedom in design choices. In this paper, we discuss most of the robotics software development methodologies and frameworks, analyze the way robotics applications are built and propose a new resource-oriented architecture towards the rapid development of robot-agnostic applications. The contribution of our work is a methodology and a model-based middleware that can be used to provide remote robot-agnostic interfaces. Such interfaces may support robotics application development from citizen developers by reducing hand-coding and technical knowledge requirements. This way, non-robotics experts will be able to integrate and use robotics in a wide range of application domains, such as healthcare, home assistance, home automation and cyber–physical systems in general.
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Kothali, Swapnil. "The Future of Robotics Technology." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 6 (June 30, 2022): 3187–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.44574.
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Abstract: In the last decade the robotics industry has created millions of additional jobs led by consumer electronics and the electric vehicle industry, and by 2020, robotics will be a $100 billion worth industry, as big as the tourism industry.. For example, the rehabilitation robot market has grown 10 times between 2010 and 2016, thanks to advancements in rehab/therapy robots, active prostheses, exoskeletons, and wearable robotics. In short, the very next decade robotics will become vital components in a number of applications and robots paired with AI will be able to perform complex actions that are capable of learning from humans, driving the intelligent automation phenomenon. Therefore, in this paper we try to depict the direction and the fields of application of such important sector of future markets, and scientific research.
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Solis, Jorge, and Atsuo Takanishi. "Recent Trends in Humanoid Robotics Research: Scientific Background, Applications, and Implications." Accountability in Research 17, no. 6 (November 9, 2010): 278–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2010.523673.
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Pransky, Joanne. "The Pransky interview: Gianmarco Veruggio, Director of Research, CNR-IEIIT, Genoa Branch; Robotics Pioneer and Inventor." Industrial Robot: An International Journal 44, no. 1 (January 16, 2017): 6–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ir-10-2016-0271.
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Purpose The following paper is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned successful innovator and leader, regarding the challenges of bringing technological discoveries to fruition. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The interviewee is Gianmarco Veruggio who is responsible for the Operational Unit of Genoa of the Italian National Research Council Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (CNR-IEIIT). Veruggio is an early pioneer of telerobotics in extreme environments. Veruggio founded the new applicative field of Roboethics. In this interview, Veruggio shares some of his 30-year robotic journey along with his thoughts and concerns on robotics and society. Findings Gianmarco Veruggio received a master’s degree in electronic engineering, computer science, control and automation from Genoa University in 1980. From 1980 to 1983 he worked in the Automation Division of Ansaldo as a Designer of fault-tolerant multiprocessor architectures for fail-safe control systems and was part of the development team for the new automation of the Italian Railway Stations. In 1984, he joined the CNR-Institute of Naval Automation (IAN) in Genoa as a Research Scientist. There, he worked on real-time computer graphics for simulation, control techniques and naval and marine data-collection systems. In 1989, he founded the CNR-IAN Robotics Department (Robotlab), which he headed until 2003, to develop missions on experimental robotics in extreme environments. His approach utilized working prototypes in a virtual lab environment and focused on robot mission control, real-time human-machine interfaces, networked control system architectures for tele-robotics and Internet Robotics. In 2000, he founded the association “Scuola di Robotica” (School of Robotics) to promote this new science among young people and society at large by means of educational robotics. He joined the CNR-IEIIT in 2007 to continue his research in robotics and to also develop studies on the philosophical, social and ethical implications of Robotics. Originality/value Veruggio led the first Italian underwater robotics campaigns in Antarctica during the Italian expeditions in 1993, 1997 and 2001, and in the Arctic during 2002. During the 2001-2002 Antarctic expedition, he carried out the E-Robot Project, the first experiment of internet robotics via satellite in the Antarctica. In 2002, he designed and developed the Project E-Robot2, the first experiment of worldwide internet robotics ever carried out in the Arctic. During these projects, he organized a series of “live-science” sessions in collaboration with students and teachers of Italian schools. Beginning with his new “School of Robotics”, Veruggio continued to disseminate and educate young people on the complex relationship between robotics and society. This led him to coin the term and propose the concept of Roboethics in 2002, and he has since made worldwide efforts at dedicating resources to the development of this new field. He was the General Chair of the “First International Symposium on Roboethics” in 2004 and of the “EURON Roboethics Atelier” in 2006 that produced the Roboethics Roadmap. Veruggio is the author of more than 150 scientific publications. In 2006, he was presented with the Ligurian Region Award for Innovation, and in 2009, for his merits in the field of science and society, he was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, one of Italy’s highest civilian honors.
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Woock, Philipp, Janko Petereit, Christian Frey, and Jürgen Beyerer. "ROBDEKON – competence center for decontamination robotics." at - Automatisierungstechnik 70, no. 10 (October 1, 2022): 827–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/auto-2022-0072.
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Abstract There are still many hazardous tasks that humans perform in their daily work. This is of great concern for the remediation of contaminated sites, for the dismantling of nuclear power plants, or for the handling of hazardous materials. The competence center ROBDEKON was founded to concentrate expertise and coordinate research activities regarding decontamination robotics in Germany. It serves as a national technology hub for the decontamination needs of various stakeholders. A major scientific goal of ROBDEKON is the development of (semi-)autonomous robotic systems to remove humans from work environments that are potentially hazardous to health.
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Caccia, M., R. Bono, G. Bruzzone, and G. Veruggio. "Unmanned Underwater Vehicles for Scientific Applications and Robotics Research: The ROMEO Project." Marine Technology Society Journal 34, no. 2 (January 1, 2000): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.34.2.1.
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The design, development and exploitation of Romeo, a last generation ROV capable of supporting robotics research on intelligent/autonomous vehicles and to execute scientific missions in very harsh environment, are presented. The system’s mechanical and communication design is discussed with respect to basic end-user requirements. A three Local Area Networks system architecture is proposed, and the main sub-systems connected to the surface (supervision), on-board and lab Ethernet LANs are described. The vehicle’s exploitation in scientific missions in harsh environment (Ross Sea in Antarctica), Internet-based mission control demonstrations and the integration with a multidisciplinary scientific and technological payload proved the capabilities of the proposed architecture in matching operational and research requirements.
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Cabanillas-Carbonell, Michael, Mariazucena Calderón-Riera, and Josselin Sanchez-Solís. "Educational Robot for the Care of Infectious Diseases in Children: A Review of the Scientific Literature 2010 - 2020." E3S Web of Conferences 229 (2021): 01059. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202122901059.
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Due to the pandemic caused by the COVID-19, we are forced to maintain a social distance, relying on technology such as the use of robots for both commercial and educational activities. This document is a systematic review of scientific literature using Prism methodology and aims to determine the best characteristics for the development of educational robots in children on infectious disease care. We obtained 50 articles associated to the research topic collected from databases such as IEEE Xplore, Scielo, Scopus and WoS. The results were synthesized in different tables and graphs separated in approaches of: robotics in education, robotics in relation to humans, education in diseases, robotics in health and digital applications in education, where the first one is the most treated in the articles found.
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Ghabcheloo, Reza, and António Pascoal. "Motion Optimization and Control of Single and Multiple Autonomous Aerial, Land, and Marine Robots." Sensors 23, no. 1 (December 22, 2022): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23010087.
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Fast-paced developments in the fields of aerial, land, and marine robotics are steadily paving the way for a wide spectrum of scientific and commercial applications of autonomous vehicles with far-reaching societal implications [...]
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Serebrennyj, V. V., A. A. Boshlyakov, and A. S. Yuschenko. "To the Anniversary of the Department of "Robotic Systems and Mechatronics" of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University." Mekhatronika, Avtomatizatsiya, Upravlenie 22, no. 11 (November 9, 2021): 563–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17587/mau.22.563-566.
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This year we celebrate the 70-th year of the chair founded in BMSTU in 1951 which name today is "Robotic Systems and Mechatronics". Evolution of the chair during the last 70 years is completely reflected the technical progress in the field of automation. From automatic drives to autonomous robots. Again with the improvement of the educational programs in accordance with the vital demands the chair managed to keep the basic traditions of the Russian engineering school based on the combination of the fundamental scientific background with the practical competence in the new technical systems design. The prominent scientists and engineers made a major contribution to the content and methods of training of future specialists in robotics and mechatronics which are acknowledged both in Russia and abroad. Nowadays robotics is transforming from perspective direction to urgent needs. The chair "Robotic Systems and Mechatronics" is completely ready to reply the new challenge of time.
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Weinstein, David B., and Dennis S. France. "Jumping into the 20th century before it is too late: is laboratory robotics still in its infancy?" Journal of Automatic Chemistry 14, no. 2 (1992): 59–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/s1463924692000142.
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Successful management of laboratory robotic automation programmes in the environment of research and drug discovery within the pharmaceutical industry may perhaps be best compared to a chef preparing the perfect hollandaise sauce. All the ingredients must be available at the same time and be of highest quality for the right price. However, if components are not added in the right quantities and in the proper order, no amount of whipping together by the product champion will create the best product. In the past, managerial scepticism surrounding useful implementation of cost-effective, high-throughput robotic systems often placed these ‘modern toys’ at low priorities for research development laboratories. Management now recognizes the unique contributions of robotics in the research environment. Although the scientific director must still play the role of product champion, new questions are being proposed and new commitments are being made to bring the potential of robotic automation to every laboratory where repetitive functions can benefit from new applications. Research laboratory directors have become both the key ingredient, as well as the rate-limiting determinant in the development of new applications. Having fulfilled the promise of robotic automation to release talented personnel, the challenge now is for the ‘end users’, the bench scientists, to be provided with opportunities to invest the time and effort required for future applications and new career functions.
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Nehmzow, Ulrich. "Quantitative analysis of robot–environment interaction—towards “scientific mobile robotics”." Robotics and Autonomous Systems 44, no. 1 (July 2003): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8890(03)00010-1.
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Margheri, Laura. "Scientific Communication, Networking, and Women In Robotics [Women in Engineering]." IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 24, no. 1 (March 2017): 16–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mra.2017.2649318.
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Wisspeintner, Thomas, Tijn van der Zant, Luca Iocchi, and Stefan Schiffer. "RoboCup@Home." Interaction Studies 10, no. 3 (December 10, 2009): 392–426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/is.10.3.06wis.
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Being part of the RoboCup initiative, the RoboCup@Home league targets the development and deployment of autonomous service and assistive robot technology being essential for future personal domestic applications. The domain of domestic service and assistive robotics implicates a wide range of possible problems. The primary reasons for this include the large amount of uncertainty in the dynamic and non-standardized environments of the real world, and the related human interaction. Furthermore, the application orientation requires a large effort towards high level integration combined with a demand for general robustness of the systems. This article details the need for interdisciplinary community effort to iteratively identify related problems, to define benchmarks, to test and, finally, to solve the problems. The concepts and the implementation of the RoboCup@Home initiative as a combination of scientific exchange and competition is presented as an effi cient method to accelerate and focus technological and scientific progress in the domain of domestic service robots. Finally, the progress in terms of performance increase in the benchmarks and technological advancements is evaluated and discussed. Keywords: Domestic Service Robotics, Application, Uncertainty, Benchmark, Competition, Human–Robot Interaction, RoboCup@Home
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Normann, Randy A. "US Geothermal Funding Outlook (Reducing Cost Barriers for HT SOI Reservoir Monitoring Systems)." Additional Conferences (Device Packaging, HiTEC, HiTEN, and CICMT) 2018, HiTEC (May 1, 2018): 000122–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4071/2380-4491-2018-hiten-000122.
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ABSTRACT The presentation of this paper will discuss the expected funding levels from the US Dept. of Energy available for geothermal research. However, at the time this paper submitted for publication at HiTEC, those funding levels have not been publically released. This paper examines the use of Arduino systems for developing geothermal well monitoring systems and logging tools. The Arduino is a low cost, public domain micro processing system commonly used for teaching machine programming at the high school level. These systems enjoy open domain support and many levels of self-help books. The Arduino enjoys worldwide acceptance for teaching high school students how to build and program robotic machines. The Arduino system is so popular, Ebay.com lists 2,244 “Arduino Kits”. Kits for learning robotics, operating 3D printers, monitoring sensors and other general applications in electronics. This paper examines using the Arduino system for scientific measurement purposes. Two application examples are given: 275°C well monitoring tool interface and a simple, very low cost temperature logging tool. This paper highlights two new Arduino Shield for scientific measurements: a 22Bit ADC and a 12Bit DAC programmable power supply for powering high temperature downhole tools.
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Roth, Bernard. "Scientific fundamentals of robotics 4: Real-time dynamics of manipulation robots." Mechanism and Machine Theory 22, no. 3 (January 1987): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0094-114x(87)90013-9.
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Stefanchuk, Mykola O., Oksana A. Muzyka-Stefanchuk, and Maryna M. Stefanchuk. "Prospects of legal regulation of relations in the field of artificial intelligence use." Journal of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine 28, no. 1 (March 24, 2021): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.37635/jnalsu.28(1).2021.157-168.
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The study covers the issues of legal regulation of relations in the field of artificial intelligence use. The study mainstreams the issue of whether it is possible to contemplate the legal status of a robot at the present stage of human development, or, on the contrary, all discussions on this issue are premature. Various areas of application, applications of robotics and artificial intelligence are considered. Special attention is paid to the medical field, where with the help of modern technologies it has become possible to develop models for predicting breast cancer, a model of cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic people with atherosclerosis, predicting stroke and seasonality of tuberculosis, and predicting the disease in a pandemic. It is argued that the COVID pandemic has reminded the world of the urgent need to intervene in the healthcare industry using artificial intelligence. It is artificial intelligence (AI) that has many applications in pandemic situations – from diagnostics to therapy. Attention is paid to the use of artificial intelligence in the educational, scientific, and research areas. This refers to the fight against the identification of facts of academic dishonesty and plagiarism, to the introduction of new technologies in the educational process. The study considers the existing approaches to the concept, nature, and main features of such categories as “artificial intelligence”, “robot”, and other related concepts in order to understand and comprehend their essence. In the comparative legal aspect, the study examines the RoboLaw project, European Parliament Resolution 2015/2103 (INL), entitled “Civil Law Rules on Robotics” of February 16, 2017, and the Charter of Robotics (the Scientific Foresight Unit, STOA)
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Jánoš, Rudolf. "ANALYSIS OF RESCUE ROBOTS." TECHNICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES, no. 3(17) (2019): 62–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.25140/2411-5363-2019-3(17)-62-67.
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Urgency of the research. The analysis shows that besides keeping pace in “classic” applications of robots (industrial robots) for manufacturing (engineering) industrial processes, at the same time the applications tend to concentrate mainly in the so-called non-engineering industrial and non-manufacturing (service) industries. Target setting. Trends bring functional and constructional new requirements for robots and their applications, especially those related to the efficient usability of robots in new segments of the non-manufacturing and service sector. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Actual research is nowadays focused at such problematics, because return of investments based on robotic devices seems to be reliable and people at workplace can realize and focus to another type of tasks. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Within this sector, it is primarily the area of rescue, where service robots have to overcome various obstacles in the performance of their activities, get into hard-to-reach and dangerous places, etc. depend mainly on its conceptual solution. The research objective. Given that the company's priority is to continually improve its products, this group of robots is also looking for new innovative approaches that would improve the conceptual solutions of service robots and their operation in the application space. On this basis, it can be assumed that this aspect of continuous innovation opens up a large number of possibilities for new improvements to this group of robots. The statement of basic materials. The emergence of this group of robots was conditioned by the requirements of practice, which required the concept of robots to be incorporated into non-industrial and non-production areas where robots would only perform activities that would be useful to humans or to technical and operational systems. For these reasons, the first designs of these robots began to emerge, which have been continuously improved over time and adapted to the needs of practice to such an extent that today they are an integral part of the service industry. Conclusions. Mobile robotic systems are currently under intensive development. Variety brings service activities in service robotics need to use different principles for dealing with their mobility. The most prevalent application of the principle of a wheeled chassis. In terms of theory as well as technical solutions are the most sophisticated wheeled chassis and most widely used in service robotics. This work is developed in the direction of the current service robotics and the essential characteristics and problems associated with the solution that we applied in the educational process.
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Williams, Douglas C., Yuxin Ma, Louise Prejean, Mary Jane Ford, and Guolin Lai. "Acquisition of Physics Content Knowledge and Scientific Inquiry Skills in a Robotics Summer Camp." Journal of Research on Technology in Education 40, no. 2 (December 2007): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2007.10782505.
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Ijspeert, Auke J. "Amphibious and Sprawling Locomotion: From Biology to Robotics and Back." Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems 3, no. 1 (May 3, 2020): 173–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-091919-095731.
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A milestone in vertebrate evolution, the transition from water to land, owes its success to the development of a sprawling body plan that enabled an amphibious lifestyle. The body, originally adapted for swimming, evolved to benefit from limbs that enhanced its locomotion capabilities on submerged and dry ground. The first terrestrial animals used sprawling locomotion, a type of legged locomotion in which limbs extend laterally from the body (as opposed to erect locomotion, in which limbs extend vertically below the body). This type of locomotion—exhibited, for instance, by salamanders, lizards, and crocodiles—has been studied in a variety of fields, including neuroscience, biomechanics, evolution, and paleontology. Robotics can benefit from these studies to design amphibious robots capable of swimming and walking, with interesting applications in field robotics, in particular for search and rescue, inspection, and environmental monitoring. In return, robotics can provide useful scientific tools to test hypotheses in neuroscience, biomechanics, and paleontology. For instance, robots have been used to test hypotheses about the organization of neural circuits that can switch between swimming and walking under the control of simple modulation signals, as well as to identify the most likely gaits of extinct sprawling animals. Here, I review different aspects of amphibious and sprawling locomotion, namely gait characteristics, neurobiology, numerical models, and sprawling robots, and discuss fruitful interactions between robotics and other scientific fields.
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Roth, Bernard. "Scientific fundamentals of robotics 3: Kinematics and trajectory synthesis of manipulation robots." Mechanism and Machine Theory 22, no. 3 (January 1987): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0094-114x(87)90012-7.
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Roth, Bernard. "Scientific fundamentals of robotics 6: Applied dynamics and CAD of manipulation robots." Mechanism and Machine Theory 22, no. 3 (January 1987): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0094-114x(87)90014-0.
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Ananias, Estevão, and Pedro Dinis Gaspar. "A Low-Cost Collaborative Robot for Science and Education Purposes to Foster the Industry 4.0 Implementation." Applied System Innovation 5, no. 4 (July 25, 2022): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/asi5040072.
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The evolution of information technology and the great advances in artificial intelligence are leading to a level of automation that has never been reached before. A large part of this level of automation is due to the use of robotics, which in turn ends up both hindering and accelerating the process of Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is driven by innovative technologies that have an effect on production systems and business models. Although technologies are the driving motors of production within Industry 4.0, many production systems require collaboration between robotics and humans, and safety is required for both parties. Given the need for robots to collaborate with humans simultaneously or in parallel, a new generation of robots, called cobots, “Collaborative Robots”, are gaining prominence to face these challenges. With cobots, it is possible to overcome security barriers and envisage working safely side-by-side with humans. This paper presents the development and testing of a low-cost, within standards, 6-axis collaborative robot that can be used for educational purposes in different task-specific applications. The development of this collaborative robot involves the design and 3D printing of the structure (connections and parts), sizing and selection of circuits and/or electronic components, programming, and control. Furthermore, this study considers the development of a user interface application with the robotic arm. Thus, the application of technological solutions, as well as of the scientific and educational approaches used in the development of cobots can foster the wide implementation of Industry 4.0.
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Pransky, Joanne. "The Pransky Interview: Professor Gurvinder S. Virk, Technical Director, Innovative Technology and Science Limited." Industrial Robot: An International Journal 44, no. 4 (June 19, 2017): 401–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ir-04-2017-0078.
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Purpose The following paper is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned successful innovator and leader, regarding the challenges of bringing technological discoveries to fruition. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The interviewee is Gurvinder S. Virk, an experienced internationally renowned technical expert in robotics, control, engineering and computer science who currently serves as the Technical Director for Innovative Technology & Science Limited (InnotecUK); Adjunct Professor for IIT Ropar, India; Guest Professor in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; and Trustee and Treasurer, CLAWAR Association Ltd., UK (a UK-registered charity with the mission to advance robotics for the public benefit). In this interview, Prof Virk details his technical/commercialization/regulatory experience with international standing to advance robotics and control engineering globally to deliver mass market robot products. Findings Prof Virk received a first-class BSc in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Manchester in 1977; a PhD in Control Theory, Imperial College, London, 1982; and a Diploma of Imperial College in 1982. He has served as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Control and Robotics and related fields since 1983 in UK, New Zealand, Germany and Sweden. He has been involved in several spin-out commercial ventures with CFM Consultants, Ambient Energy Systems Ltd., Portech Ltd., Endoenergy Systems Ltd., Endoenergy Sweden AB, CLAWAR Association Ltd. and EAS Ltd. (NZ). Originality/value Throughout his 35-year career, Prof Virk (CEng, FIET, FCIBSE, CMath, FIMA, MIEEE) has been a leader and scientific contributor in the fields of intelligent and advanced robotics, control systems theory and applications, assistive robots and mobile robotics, renewable energy systems for building applications and robot safety. He has produced over 350 refereed publications, filed four patents, supervised 16 successful PhD/MPhil students, created and led international research teams, registered several spin-out companies (and a UK-registered charity) and has led many international externally funded projects (total value of approximately €20m). His notable achievements include leading the creation of the first harmonized ISO safety standard (EN ISO 13482) for personal care robots and being invited to be President of the Evaluation Committee of the ARGOS Challenge to invent autonomous ATEX-certified robots for gas and oil production sites. In addition, Prof Virk has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London for services in promoting Information Technology (IT) in schools and is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technology. His pioneering and patented research on assistive wearable exoskeletons will soon be available as affordable products for the elderly.
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Gui, Chen, Jun Peng, and Zuojin Li. "Oriented Planetary Exploration Robotic Vision Binocular Camera Calibration." International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence 7, no. 4 (October 2013): 83–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcini.2013100105.
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One of the goals of planetary exploration is to cache rock samples for subsequent return to Earth in the future Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. This paper presents a method of binocular camera calibration. Robotic vision has become a very popular field in recent years due to the numerous promising applications it may enhance. However, errors within the cameras and in their perception of their environment can cause applications in robotics to fail. To help correct these intrinsic and extrinsic imperfections, stereo camera calibrations are performed. There are currently many accurate methods of camera calibration available; however, most or all of them are barely theoretical and difficultly practical. Because the authors' robot need to accurately approach and placement scientific objects, in this paper the authors present an image rectification method that is an extension to two-step method. There is an additional step for correcting the distorted image coordinates. The image rectification is performed and accurately compensates for radial and tangential distortions. Finally, through Matlab tool developed the results of experiment are accurate and available.
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Sumanas, Marius, Algirdas Petronis, Vytautas Bucinskas, Andrius Dzedzickis, Darius Virzonis, and Inga Morkvenaite-Vilkonciene. "Deep Q-Learning in Robotics: Improvement of Accuracy and Repeatability." Sensors 22, no. 10 (May 21, 2022): 3911. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22103911.
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Recent industrial robotics covers a broad part of the manufacturing spectrum and other human everyday life applications; the performance of these devices has become increasingly important. Positioning accuracy and repeatability, as well as operating speed, are essential in any industrial robotics application. Robot positioning errors are complex due to the extensive combination of their sources and cannot be compensated for using conventional methods. Some robot positioning errors can be compensated for only using machine learning (ML) procedures. Reinforced machine learning increases the robot’s positioning accuracy and expands its implementation capabilities. The provided methodology presents an easy and focused approach for industrial in situ robot position adjustment in real-time during production setup or readjustment cases. The scientific value of this approach is a methodology using an ML procedure without huge external datasets for the procedure and extensive computing facilities. This paper presents a deep q-learning algorithm applied to improve the positioning accuracy of an articulated KUKA youBot robot during operation. A significant improvement of the positioning accuracy was achieved approximately after 260 iterations in the online mode and initial simulation of the ML procedure.
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Pransky, Joanne. "The Pransky interview: Dr Yulun Wang, Founder and CEO of InTouch Health." Industrial Robot: An International Journal 42, no. 5 (August 17, 2015): 381–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ir-05-2015-0111.
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Purpose – The following paper is a “Q & A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution, commercialization and challenges of bringing a technological invention to market. Design/methodology/approach – The interviewee is Dr Yulun Wang, an inventor, self-taught entrepreneur, business leader and world-renowned authority on robotics and health care. Dr Wang shares his successful three-decade journey that began with researching the market needs and aligning himself with medical experts, followed by pioneering robotic solutions specifically for the health care industry. In the process, Dr Wang founded and spearheaded both a public and private robotics company. Findings – Dr Yulun Wang received a BSc and an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). After teaching at UCSB for a few years, with a grant he won from NASA, Dr Wang founded Computer Motion, Inc. in 1989 and conducted research on endoscopic robots. Computer Motion went public in 1997 and later merged with its competitor, Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:IRSG) in 2003 to forge the multi-billion dollar surgical robotics industry. Dr Wang founded InTouch Technologies (d.b.a. InTouch Health), in 2002, named one of the fastest-growing biomedical companies in the USA by INC Magazine. Originality/value – Dr Wang launched his career at the intersection of health care and technology with his invention of the voice-controlled robotic arm AESOP, the first US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared surgical robot. His next generation ZEUS robotic surgical system (ZRSS), was cleared by the FDA in 2001. Also in 2001, ZRSS was used in the world’s first telesurgery, as surgeons in New York controlled the arms of the Zeus to perform a cholecystectomy on a patient in Strasbourg, France, via a high-speed fiber optic supplied by France Telecom. This led Dr Wang to found InTouch Health, a company that pioneers remote presence robot systems that enable health care professionals to provide more effective and efficient health care. Dr Wang has received multiple other entrepreneurship and leadership awards, including being elected to the prestigious ranks of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011. He is the author of over 50 scientific publications, and holds over 100 patents registered in his name. Dr Wang serves on several boards, including the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Board of Directors, where he also serves as an officer.
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Rahman, S. M. Mizanoor. "Assessing and Benchmarking Learning Outcomes of Robotics-Enabled STEM Education." Education Sciences 11, no. 2 (February 21, 2021): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci11020084.
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Experienced middle school mathematics and science teachers were recruited for a pilot study. The teachers separately responded to a survey related to determining expected learning outcomes based on their traditional teaching, classroom experiences and observations, and self-brainstorming. The teachers then received training on how to design, develop, and implement robotics-enabled lessons under a design-based research approach for experiential learning, and taught robotics-enabled lessons to a selected student population in classroom settings. The teachers then responded to the survey for the robotics-enabled teaching. For each case (traditional and robotics-enabled), the survey responses were analyzed, and a set of expected learning outcomes of math and science lessons was derived separately. The thematic analysis results showed that the expected learning outcomes for the robotics-enabled lessons were not only related to the educational gains (content knowledge) observed in traditional teaching, but also to the improvements in the behavioral, social, scientific, cognitive, and intellectual aptitudes of the students. Then, a set of metrics and methods were proposed for assessing the learning outcomes separately. To validate the assessment metrics and methods, teachers from different schools taught two selected robotics-enabled lessons (one math, one science) to same grade students, and separately assessed the learning outcomes of each student using the proposed metrics and methods. The learning outcomes were then compared and benchmarked between schools and subjects. The results of a user study with the teachers showed user acceptance, effectiveness, and suitability of the assessment metrics and methods. The proposed scheme of assessing learning outcomes can be used to assess and justify the benefits and advantages of robotics-enabled STEM education, benchmark the outcomes, help improve teaching preparations, motivate decision-makers to confer on robotics-enabled STEM education and curricula development, and promote robotics-enabled STEM education.
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MUHAMMAD, WALI, Muhammad Haroon, Muzamil Shah, Muhammad Asad Ullah, and Iqra Haleem. "Potential Application of Nanotechnology in Health Care: An Insight." Nanoscale Reports 1, no. 2 (August 24, 2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/nr1821.
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Nanotechnology uses very small molecular and intracellular structures ranging from 1 to 100-nanometer in size to create, employ and qualify materials and devices. It is a well-established branch of science having significant applications in wide range of medicine. It has wide usage in pharmaceutics for targeted delivery of drugs and genes into cells. Various targeted procedures in the animal body have been accomplished using nano instruments, especially nano-robotics. Scientific bodies have also set the status of nanomedicine in health fields especially neurological and cancerous antidotes. Thus, nanoparticles of extremely small size have vast prominence in almost all medical fields for facilitating mankind.
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Lamuta, Caterina. "Perspective on highly twisted artificial muscles." Applied Physics Letters 122, no. 4 (January 23, 2023): 040502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0133971.
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Lightweight and single-component artificial muscles represent a promising alternative to conventional actuators for several applications requiring a large power/weight ratio, including modern soft and assistive robotics. Highly Twisted Artificial Muscles (HTAMs) are a relatively young category of artificial muscles, introduced only in 2011. Considering their young age, there is still a lack of awareness in the scientific community on what has been accomplished so far in this field and what are current challenges and limitations. This Perspective paper aims to provide an extensive overview in terms of working mechanism, manufacturing, modeling, and applications of different types of HTAMs. A discussion on challenges and future directions is then provided to encourage transformative research on this topic.
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Pransky, Joanne. "The Pransky interview: Dr Yoky Matsuoka, Vice President Technology, Nest Labs." Industrial Robot: An International Journal 41, no. 6 (October 20, 2014): 481–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ir-09-2014-0389.
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Purpose – This article is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution, commercialization and challenges of bringing a technological invention to market. Design/methodology/approach – The interviewee is Dr Yoky Matsuoka, the Vice President of Nest Labs. Matsuoka describes her career journey that led her from a semi-professional tennis player who wanted to build a robot tennis buddy, to a pioneer of neurobotics who then applied her multidisciplinary research in academia to the development of a mass-produced intelligent home automation device. Findings – Dr Matsuoka received a BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and in Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. Dr Matsuoka was formerly the Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and Ana Loomis McCandless Professor of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2010, she joined Google X as one of its three founding members. She then joined Nest as VP of Technology. Originality/value – Dr Matsuoka built advanced robotic prosthetic devices and designed complementary rehabilitation strategies that enhanced the mobility of people with manipulation disabilities. Her novel work has made significant scientific and engineering contributions in the combined fields of mechanical engineering, neuroscience, bioengineering, robotics and computer science. Dr Matsuoka was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in which she used the Genius Award money to establish a nonprofit corporation, YokyWorks, to continue developing engineering solutions for humans with physical disabilities. Other awards include the Emerging Inventor of the Year, UW Medicine; IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award; Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; and numerous others. She leads the development of the learning and control technology for the Nest smoke detector and Thermostat, which has saved the USA hundreds of billions of dollars in energy expenses. Nest was sold to Google in 2013 for a record $3.2 billion dollars in cash.
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Ridlwan, Hasvienda Mohammad, Sonki Prasetya, and Musli Min. "2D Mapping Lingkungan Indoor Menggunakan Lidar dan ROS untuk Mobile Robot." Jurnal Mekanik Terapan 3, no. 2 (August 31, 2022): 60–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.32722/jmt.v3i2.4285.
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Currently, the application of control systems has been applied in various scientific fields including mechatronics and robotics. Applications in the branch of robotics are also growing day by day not only with conventional controls but also with intelligent systems. An autonomous robot in carrying out certain missions in an unknown environment requires information about the location itself and the environment through the map. A process to identify a position without a map is called a localization function on the robot. Mobile robots building maps and localization are two fundamental tasks when mobile robots work in indoor environments. With 2D laser scanning (LiDAR) data obtained in real-time, the robot can calculate the area of all empty spaces in a room, then can choose the center of the room as its position for map building. The objective of this research is to implement a two-dimensional mapping method using LiDAR. The algorithm used in this study is the Gmapping Technique on ROS. The main purpose of this research is to map mobile robots with LIDAR sensors using the Robot Operating System for navigation and positioning of mobile robots. Through the actual experimental results, the mobile robot will move with a 2-dimensional mapping process.
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Hayden, Marie A., Menekse S. Barim, Darlene L. Weaver, K. C. Elliott, Michael A. Flynn, and Jennifer M. Lincoln. "Occupational Safety and Health with Technological Developments in Livestock Farms: A Literature Review." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 24 (December 8, 2022): 16440. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416440.
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In recent decades, there have been considerable technological developments in the agriculture sector to automate manual processes for many factors, including increased production demand and in response to labor shortages/costs. We conducted a review of the literature to summarize the key advances from installing emerging technology and studies on robotics and automation to improve agricultural practices. The main objective of this review was to survey the scientific literature to identify the uses of these new technologies in agricultural practices focusing on new or reduced occupational safety risks affecting agriculture workers. We screened 3248 articles with the following criteria: (1) relevance of the title and abstract with occupational safety and health; (2) agriculture technologies/applications that were available in the United States; (3) written in English; and (4) published 2015–2020. We found 624 articles on crops and harvesting and 80 articles on livestock farming related to robotics and automated systems. Within livestock farming, most (78%) articles identified were related to dairy farms, and 56% of the articles indicated these farms were using robotics routinely. However, our review revealed gaps in how the technology has been evaluated to show the benefits or potential hazards to the safety and well-being of livestock owners/operators and workers.
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D’Auria, Daniela, and Fabio Persia. "Use of semantics in robotics — improving doctors’ performance using a cricothyrotomy simulator." Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence 01, no. 01 (March 2017): 1650005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s242503841650005x.
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In the last years, the use of robotics and semantics in medical context has become more and more essential to improve medical doctors’ performance. In this work, we present a framework which exploits reasoning and semantic techniques to assist medical doctors during the cricothyrotomy — a well-known life-saving procedure. More specifically, it first acquires data in real-time from a cricothyrotomy simulator, when used by medical doctors, then it stores the acquired data into a scientific database and finally it exploits an Activity Detection Engine for finding expected activities, in order to evaluate the medical doctors’ performance in real-time, that is very essential for this kind of applications. In fact, an incorrect use of the simulator promptly detected can save the patient’s life.
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Caccia, M., R. Bono, G. A. Bruzzone, G. I. Bruzzone, E. Spirandelli, and G. Veruggio. "Romeo-ARAMIS Integration and Sea Trials." Marine Technology Society Journal 36, no. 2 (June 1, 2002): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/002533202787914115.
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This paper deals with the integration and sea trials of Romeo, a latest generation ROV for scientific applications and robotics research, and ARAMIS, a scientific and technological system to be integrated with typical mid-class existing ROVs to carry out pelagic and benthic investigations both in shallow and deep waters. The ARAMIS project (Advanced ROV package for Automatic Mobile Inspection of Sediments), funded by the European Union, developed a system constituted by a subsea module, i.e. a toolsled equipped with the technological and scientific instruments and their dedicated data acquisition and control system, and a surface station, i.e. a network of computers devoted to: i) the supervisory control of the ROV motion and of the scientific devices' sampling activities, ii) the acoustic and video image processing, iii) the interfaces for pilot and scientists. The ARAMIS system capabilities have been demonstrated by operating the system with a couple of ROVs designed for scientific applications: the deep-water ROV Victor 6000 developed by IFREMER, and the mid-water ROV Romeo developed by CNR-IAN. The integration of the ARAMIS system with Romeo, the design and development of the ARAMIS Core Skid data acquisition and control system (CSDACS), and the execution of the trials in the thermal vent areas near the island of Milos in the Aegean Sea during the ARAMIS' final demo with the medium size ROV are presented and discussed.
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Angelescu, Dorin, and Gheorghe Ion Gheorghe. "Intelligent Platform with BLDC Drives and Microsystems for Mechatronic Applications in Security and Surveillance." Scientific Bulletin of Valahia University - Materials and Mechanics 16, no. 15 (October 1, 2018): 25–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bsmm-2018-0015.
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Abstract Result of the Scientific Concerns from the Doctoral School of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics of the Valahia Târgovişte University and the research project of INCDMTM “INTEGRATED MECHATRONIC SYSTEM FOR HUMAN SECURITY INSURANCE FOR THE SAFETY OF OBJECTIVES AND INTERVENTIONS IN RISK - MISO ZONES” (project ID: PED-2016-0924, code PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0707) in the field of robotics, the scientific work “Intelligent Platform with BLDC Drives and Microsystems for Mechatronic Applications in Security and Surveillance “ is the completion of the experimental testing of controlling the movement of a security and surveillance robot, as part of the Ph.D. industrial thesis “Studies, research and contributions on the development of a smart mecatronic robot for security and surveillance applications”. The scientific work ultimately results in an intelligent, original platform that will be used to control the movement of the robot. The platform allows communication between the latest generation BLDC engine (embedded in the drive wheel) and it’s controller and a computerized microsystem that will handle the displacement controls and will also provide the link with the human operator through any remote guidance system that is used. Although designed for an intelligent security and surveillance mechatronic robot, this platform is proven to be extensively versatile for any other type of robot or mobile platform that uses BLDC wheel-drive engines. The project harmoniously combines Mechatronics, Cyber-MixMeatronic, Integronics and Artificial Intelligence into an Intelligent Interoperable Construction.
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Shinde, Vinita V., Yuyang Wang, Md Fahim Salek, Maria L. Auad, Lauren E. Beckingham, and Bryan S. Beckingham. "Material Design for Enhancing Properties of 3D Printed Polymer Composites for Target Applications." Technologies 10, no. 2 (March 23, 2022): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/technologies10020045.
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Polymer composites are becoming an important class of materials for a diversified range of industrial applications due to their unique characteristics and natural and synthetic reinforcements. Traditional methods of polymer composite fabrication require machining, manual labor, and increased costs. Therefore, 3D printing technologies have come to the forefront of scientific, industrial, and public attention for customized manufacturing of composite parts having a high degree of control over design, processing parameters, and time. However, poor interfacial adhesion between 3D printed layers can lead to material failure, and therefore, researchers are trying to improve material functionality and extend material lifetime with the addition of reinforcements and self-healing capability. This review provides insights on different materials used for 3D printing of polymer composites to enhance mechanical properties and improve service life of polymer materials. Moreover, 3D printing of flexible energy-storage devices (FESD), including batteries, supercapacitors, and soft robotics using soft materials (polymers), is discussed as well as the application of 3D printing as a platform for bioengineering and earth science applications by using a variety of polymer materials, all of which have great potential for improving future conditions for humanity and planet Earth.
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Čech, Martin, Arend-Jan Beltman, and Kaspars Ozols. "Pushing Mechatronic Applications to the Limits via Smart Motion Control." Applied Sciences 11, no. 18 (September 8, 2021): 8337. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11188337.
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Modern machines strive to run at limit performance and dependability while their operational area and size are getting restricted. To achieve those objectives, often swift integration of custom-made subsystems is required, either actuators, sensors, electronic, or SW modules. Such a diverse suite of elements needs specific approaches and tools for fast optimization and adjustment following model-based system engineering (MBSE) and digital twinning principles. The large-scale I-MECH project was an industry-driven initiative striving to give a scientific response to those demands. The intermediate results were summarized in the authors’ previous work. The purpose of this paper is to report on final project results, namely specific performance achievements and figures based on measurable KPIs. After a brief description of key technologies, special focus is given to industrial printing technology based on a generic substrate carrier. However, it is shown that similar and consistent methodology can be applicable in many other industrial domains, such as semiconductors, healthcare robotics, machining, packaging, etc. Thus, the main merit of this survey is a holistic approach to motion control design.
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Oliveira, Luiz F. P., António P. Moreira, and Manuel F. Silva. "Advances in Forest Robotics: A State-of-the-Art Survey." Robotics 10, no. 2 (March 24, 2021): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/robotics10020053.
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The development of robotic systems to operate in forest environments is of great relevance for the public and private sectors. In this sense, this article reviews several scientific papers, research projects and commercial products related to robotic applications for environmental preservation, monitoring, wildfire firefighting, inventory operations, planting, pruning and harvesting. After conducting critical analysis, the main characteristics observed were: (a) the locomotion system is directly affected by the type of environmental monitoring to be performed; (b) different reasons for pruning result in different locomotion and cutting systems; (c) each type of forest, in each season and each type of soil can directly interfere with the navigation technique used; and (d) the integration of the concept of swarm of robots with robots of different types of locomotion systems (land, air or sea) can compensate for the time of executing tasks in unstructured environments. Two major areas are proposed for future research works: Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart forest and navigation systems. It is expected that, with the various characteristics exposed in this paper, the current robotic forest systems will be improved, so that forest exploitation becomes more efficient and sustainable.
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Albu Salih, Alaa Taima, and Sayeed Amen Hosseini Seno. "An Energy Efficient Data Collection Using Multiple UAVs in Wireless Sensor Network: A Survey Study." JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF BABYLON for Pure and Applied Sciences 26, no. 8 (October 15, 2018): 130–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.29196/jubpas.v26i8.1678.
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Today, with scientific and technological advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, control and computers, land, air, and sea vehicles, they have been considered. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have also significantly improved and are very useful for many important applications in the business, urban and military environment. One of the important uses of UAVs in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is that devices with low energy and may not be able to communicate in large areas. Nevertheless, a UAV can provide a tool for collecting the data of WSN from one device and transmitting it to another device. This article focuses on the field of research on practical applications of UAVs as mobile collectors for wireless sensor networks. First, the investigations of the proposed UAV were studied and compared their weaknesses with each other. Then, the technical challenges of the applications of UAVs in the wireless sensor network were explored.
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Maksimkin, Aleksey V., Tarek Dayyoub, Dmitry V. Telyshev, and Alexander Yu Gerasimenko. "Electroactive Polymer-Based Composites for Artificial Muscle-like Actuators: A Review." Nanomaterials 12, no. 13 (July 1, 2022): 2272. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12132272.
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Unlike traditional actuators, such as piezoelectric ceramic or metallic actuators, polymer actuators are currently attracting more interest in biomedicine due to their unique properties, such as light weight, easy processing, biodegradability, fast response, large active strains, and good mechanical properties. They can be actuated under external stimuli, such as chemical (pH changes), electric, humidity, light, temperature, and magnetic field. Electroactive polymers (EAPs), called ‘artificial muscles’, can be activated by an electric stimulus, and fixed into a temporary shape. Restoring their permanent shape after the release of an electrical field, electroactive polymer is considered the most attractive actuator type because of its high suitability for prosthetics and soft robotics applications. However, robust control, modeling non-linear behavior, and scalable fabrication are considered the most critical challenges for applying the soft robotic systems in real conditions. Researchers from around the world investigate the scientific and engineering foundations of polymer actuators, especially the principles of their work, for the purpose of a better control of their capability and durability. The activation method of actuators and the realization of required mechanical properties are the main restrictions on using actuators in real applications. The latest highlights, operating principles, perspectives, and challenges of electroactive materials (EAPs) such as dielectric EAPs, ferroelectric polymers, electrostrictive graft elastomers, liquid crystal elastomers, ionic gels, and ionic polymer–metal composites are reviewed in this article.
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Leboutet, Quentin, Julien Roux, Alexandre Janot, Julio Rogelio Guadarrama-Olvera, and Gordon Cheng. "Inertial Parameter Identification in Robotics: A Survey." Applied Sciences 11, no. 9 (May 10, 2021): 4303. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11094303.
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This work aims at reviewing, analyzing and comparing a range of state-of-the-art approaches to inertial parameter identification in the context of robotics. We introduce “BIRDy (Benchmark for Identification of Robot Dynamics)”, an open-source Matlab toolbox, allowing a systematic and formal performance assessment of the considered identification algorithms on either simulated or real serial robot manipulators. Seventeen of the most widely used approaches found in the scientific literature are implemented and compared to each other, namely: the Inverse Dynamic Identification Model with Ordinary, Weighted, Iteratively Reweighted and Total Least-Squares (IDIM-OLS, -WLS, -IRLS, -TLS); the Instrumental Variables method (IDIM-IV), the Maximum Likelihood (ML) method; the Direct and Inverse Dynamic Identification Model approach (DIDIM); the Closed-Loop Output Error (CLOE) method; the Closed-Loop Input Error (CLIE) method; the Direct Dynamic Identification Model with Nonlinear Kalman Filtering (DDIM-NKF), the Adaline Neural Network (AdaNN), the Hopfield-Tank Recurrent Neural Network (HTRNN) and eventually a set of Physically Consistent (PC-) methods allowing the enforcement of parameter physicality using Semi-Definite Programming, namely the PC-IDIM-OLS, -WLS, -IRLS, PC-IDIM-IV, and PC-DIDIM. BIRDy is robot-agnostic and features a complete inertial parameter identification pipeline, from the generation of symbolic kinematic and dynamic models to the identification process itself. This includes functionalities for excitation trajectory computation as well as the collection and pre-processing of experiment data. In this work, the proposed methods are first evaluated in simulation, following a Monte Carlo scheme on models of the 6-DoF TX40 and RV2SQ industrial manipulators, before being tested on the real robot platforms. The robustness, precision, computational efficiency and context of application the different methods are investigated and discussed.