separate robot work from human work

... mobile robots Starting not long ago, as a first trend, service robots and especially humanoid robots address more and more human-centered working spaces, so the problem of ef-ficient navigation in ... techniques, mobile robots and sensor networks, to solve the problem of efficient navigation in dynamic human-centered indoor en-vironments Looking at the enormous amount of previous works al-ready ... Autonomous multi-robot navigation In multi robot environments (decoupled multi robot sys-tems), it is possible to see every mobile system as a part of a distributed sensor network consisting of

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... analysis of mesenchymal progenitor cells from human osteoarthritic cartilage No single surface marker protein has yet been found to characterize MPCs From the accepted markers, we chose seven ... patients with mean age 74 years, Barbero and coworkers [18] described the plasticity of clonal populations of dedifferen-tiated human articular chondrocytes from much younger probands (mean age 30 years) ... articular cartilage [4,5,15-18] In the present study we purified progenitor-like cells from the cartilage of human osteoarthritic joints and showed that these cells are capable of proliferation

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... research in multi-robot domains, inspiring incremental algorithmic successes and providing many issues to be addressed Interestingly, the more we work on this adversarial multi-robot coordination ... decision to switch from a poorly performing strategy to one that could potentially work better We have identified several different levels for dynamic coordination that can be applied to a robotic team ... approach, where the robots use a fixed coordination strat-egy and each robot modifies the parameters of its behavior according to the world state A “second-order” approach, where the robots have multiple

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... be carried more quickly with more than one robot working together The robots can communicate, and therefore have the ability to signal other robots to work on the same attractor as them Group transport, ... Whether or not an attractor is between the robot and its home is determined by the alignment between vector from the robot to the attractor and that from the robot to Home. The betweenness threshold ... available) An example of small-team coordination taken froma test in which 5 robots cleared a large building As part of a 2-robot plan, the robot that is initially in the lower right corner moves

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... two robots tracking three targets Figure 1a shows the location of the robots and targets in the environment From its position, robot can observe target Robot can observe targets and Neither robot ... the robots CMVision was used for image processing (Bruce and Veloso, 2000) Motion commands were sent from Matlab to the robots and odometry and observation feedback were sent back from the robots ... multiple robots to track multiple targets has been approached from several angles Some previous work (Parker, 1997),(Parker, ´ 1999),(Werger and Matari´ , 2000) deals with the problem of allocating robotic

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... combinations of robots, as shown in Table 1 In this paper, we focus on three types of robots – R8: a robot that possesses no sensors; R2: robot that possesses only a camera; and R4: a robot that possesses ... communicates a robot’s current global position to another robot, while CS2communicates the current global position of a remote robot that remote robot Motor schemas send control signals to the robot’s ... but only works if the both robots possess laser scanners and maps If one of the robots loses its laser scanner, this solution no longer works Figure 2 shows the schema instantiated on the robots

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... conclusions and future work This work employs a single robot coverage algorithm for each individual robot and an auction mechanism to negotiate among robots which areas each robot would cover Due ... borrowed from single robot coverage with a single robot and one obstacle in the tar-get environment The robot is performing coverage with simple up-and-down motions. To better describe the multi-robot ... guide a robot to pass an end-effector (in our case equivalent to the footprint of the robot) over every accessible area of the targeted environment In the single robot case, previous work has

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... tests, four robots were given the task of traveling from left to right and back again four times, with each robot having separate goal points separated in the y axis Because different robots have ... Multi-Robot Testbed where di j is the distance from robot i to robot j, ε = 0.01, and k p = |ddes vmaxj,max | d −di 0.06 When the swarm is uniformly distributed, it stops This allows each robot ... networked using the Controller Area Network (CAN) system (Etschberger, 2001) This lower-level network is capable of controlling linear speed up to m/s, angular speed, and managing the network

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... managing multiple robots The possibility for such one-to-many human-robot teams is caused by the ever-increasing autonomy of robots As a robot becomes more autonomous, its human manager has more ... fan-out, human-robot interaction, multiple robot management Introduction Recently, there has been much discussion in the robotics community on creating robot systems that allow a single human to perform ... a single human to manage a team of multiple robots is an important question given current trends in robotics Restricting attention to managing a team of multiple robots where a single human must

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... distributed layered architecture In Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata: Proceedings from the 2003 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, volume 2, pages 27–38 Kluwer ... real-world laboratory robot condi-tions as faithfully as possible The simulated robot grid consists of six robots in a hexagon formation with one additional robot in the middle.2Each robot in the grid ... Autonomy in Human-Robot Teams 205model of L (x) and how best to use it as a predictor of the human’s performance in the next trial Equation 8 represents the system’s belief that the human has failed

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... supporting human activities We posit that these networks can also support robot systems, and particularly, mobile robot systems In fact, we believe these networks will be so useful for mobile robots, ... using embedded networks to support mobile robots is that of “engineering the environment” Roboticists have worked tirelessly to make robots truly autonomous, often meaning the robots act intelligently ... smaller amount dedicated to human-robot interaction We distinguish our research work from previous efforts in four ways: we enable teaming for humans, software agents and robotic systems; we have

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... were purchased from Sigma Chondroitin Sulfate E was purchased from CalBiochem Tritiated heparin (0.44 mCi/mg) was purchased from NEN life science products DEAE resin was purchased from Pharmacia ... 3-O-sulfated glucosamine residue Previously, it was reported from our laboratories that a 16 amino acid synthetic peptide derived from the C-terminus of human HIP/RPL29 (HIP peptide-1) enriched for ATIII-dependent ... Pharmacia Heparin byproducts were obtained from Scientific Protein Laboratories (division of Viobin corpo-ration) Waunakee, WI Human blood plasma was ob-tained from the Houston Blood Center (Houston,

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:20

... the robotics research was rapidly 1.1 Robotics Evolution: The Past, Today and Tomorrow Intelligent Service Robots Field Robots Mobile Robots Walking Robots Home Robots Humanoid Robots Non-Robotic ... of robotic systems; The study of bio-mimic robots and micro-/nano-robots; Research and development of humanoid robots; Development and intelligent control of android robots, etc After 1996, robotics ... reconfigurable robots and robotic hands with dexterous fingers; Wired and Wireless networking communications for remote control of robotic groups; Mobile robots and field robots with sensor networks; Digital...

Ngày tải lên: 01/08/2014, 17:42

... with the spectra from lipid and perchloric acid (PCA) extracts, derived from cell samples grown and harvested under similar conditions, and with compound spectra Assignments from the literature ... harvested at different days from the same seeding In the following, ML quantication derives from intensity measurements of the peak at 1.28 p.p.m in 1D spectra and from the integral of cross peak ... IR after deconvolution of 1D spectra from PCA extracts of HeLa cells (Fig 7C,CÂ) Values were obtained from the spectra of three different samples derived from the same culture The standard deviation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20

... 59–89 Hamster scrapie Human, sheep, cattle, mouse P4 IgG1 93–99b Ovine peptide Sheep, cattle 8G8 IgG2a 97–102c Human peptide Human, sheep 6H4 IgG1 144–152 Human peptide Human, sheep, cattle, ... interspecies variations among human PrPC and PrPC derived from different species in order to find a first onset on the basis of PrPC expression why PrPSc of human differed from other species Using a ... Homogenates of mice were prepared using pooled whole brains from four individuals Human homogenates derived from pooled tissues obtained from several different brain regions of six subjects The...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... about fifteen feet from the ground Perhaps it took the hint from its cousin the English sparrow The nest was admirably placed, protected from the storms by the overhanging eaves and from all eyes ... currents glance and run,And buckets shine on sturdy boles,The forest folk peep from their holes,And work is play from sun to sun The downy beats his sounding limb,The nuthatch pipes his nasal ... formed a perfect shield against both sun and rain, while it served to conceal it from[ 60] any curious eyes from above, from the cat, for instance, prowling along the top of the wall Before the eggs...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

... of protein from human erythrocyte vesicles from three healthy volunteers (lanes 1–3) Lane 4: 10 lg of protein from Sf9-hABCC11 cell lysate (positive control) Lane 5: 40 lg of protein from Sf9 WT ... erythrocytes B Fig Levels of ABCCs and ABCG2 in human erythrocytes (A) Western blot analysis of 10 lg of protein from human erythrocyte vesicles from five healthy volunteers (lanes 1–5) Each protein ... of inhibitor from that in the absence of inhibitor Each value represents the mean ± SD of duplicate measurements obtained from vesicles prepared from five individual mice or six human volunteers...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... pollution cooperation and networks (e.g., emerging networks in Latin America and Africa) Participants 36 Working group Costs and benefits from combined policies Working Group Coordinators: Andew ... Harald Dovland, Ministry of the Environment, Norway - Reports from the working groups - Conclusions from the workshop - Closure of the workshop 44 Program Committee Organizing Committee Svante Bodin ... three earlier workshops under the name of “Saltsjöbaden workshops” 2 www.asta.ivl.se Report Working Group Climate benefits and dis-benefits of air pollution (PM and ozone) control Working group...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... of a human hemangioblast in vivo has not yet been achieved, and is hindered largely by the difficulty of obtaining early human embryonic tissues Nonetheless, insights gained from work on human ... advances in human hematopoiesis from human ESCs the factor VIII gene that provoke impaired clotting and spontaneous hemorrhages that may result in death in severe cases Tail-tip fibroblasts from healthy ... advances in human hematopoiesis from human ESCs cells could potentially be used in clinical immune therapy in order to induce immune responses in an antigen-specific manner in patients suffering from...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... an afterword on how we got there Nitin Desai The Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was an experiment that worked That much is clear from the compliments heaped on its report by the ... description of how things actually work was often enough to resolve differences about how they should work More than that, the group members who had put in so much hard work developed a vested interest ... process became a group with a common purpose They listened to and learned from each other During seven months of intense work, from November 2004 to June 2005, they did not necessarily change their...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20