{"title":"Some conditions of implementing CE in advanced manufacturing systems","authors":"Joanna Kalkowska, S. Trzcielinski","doi":"10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240964","url":null,"abstract":"Today the global marketplace is changing rapidly, industrialists have to enhance their strategy to respond to customers' requirements and the market needs more efficiently and quickly. Some companies especially in Japan, USA and Europe have already started to implement techniques and tools that would enable them to respond more quickly to customers demand, delivering high quality products at reasonable costs. They also have invested heavily in computer aided manufacturing (CIM), advanced automation, robotics and information technologies. These activities change the organization of production and require a new approach in company management and manufacturing process. Concurrent engineering seems to be the solution for the above problems. The paper presents some conditions of implementing CE in manufacturing companies mainly focusing on information technologies and teamwork.","PeriodicalId":176081,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (IEEE Cat. No.04EX891)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123841972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid control of a car-like robot","authors":"J. Sequeira, M. Ribeiro","doi":"10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240578","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the control of a car-like mobile robot using a hybrid strategy. The aim of this work is to develop a behavior based control paradigm for the control of semi-autonomous robots such that mission goals can be loosely specified. Simulation results on the control of a car-like robot are presented.","PeriodicalId":176081,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (IEEE Cat. No.04EX891)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131933625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Person following and mobile camera localization using particle filters","authors":"B. Kwolek","doi":"10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240738","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates visual head tracking and person following with a mobile robot. The position of the mobile robot is determined during person following on the basis of laser readings. The tracking of the head is done using a particle filter built on cues such as color, depth, gradient and shape. The appearance of the head is represented by an ellipse with color histogram in its interior and an intensity gradient along the ellipse boundary. The size of the ellipse is computed from a stereo pair. The localization of the moving camera is achieved using a particle filter framework. A particle filter responsible for localization utilizes laser data obtained from sensor and data obtained from a map representing the environment. Current laser readings are compared with scans coming from a global map in respect of histogram intersection. Experimental results, where a person moves facing the cameras, the robot follows the person and simultaneously determines its position, demonstrate the feasibility of the tracking as well as the localization method.","PeriodicalId":176081,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (IEEE Cat. No.04EX891)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131915835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneous variable-length genotypes for evolutionary optimization","authors":"S. Sakka","doi":"10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240570","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with evolutionary programming for optimization problems. The algorithm manipulates chromosomes of which genotypes contains heterogeneous data (integer and float numbers), depending on each other. Moreover, length of the chromosomes is different within a common evolution. The evolutionary algorithm is described and optimization results are compared to the previously implemented methodology. Stability of the algorithm facing a change of problem dimensions is also tested and discussed.","PeriodicalId":176081,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (IEEE Cat. No.04EX891)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127513639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stratified motion planning concept in stair-like environment","authors":"I. Harmati, B. Lantos, S. Payandeh","doi":"10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMOCO.2004.240737","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the motion planning of stratified systems (like legged robots) in non-smooth (or called also stair-like) environment and discusses also some limitations. Our earlier works solved trajectory tracking problem in smooth environment if the stratified system is holonomic or the nonholonomic stratified system satisfies the so called decomposed Lie algebra condition (DLARC). The proposed algorithm establishes a concept that integrates these algorithms in order to extend the results for non-smooth (stair-like) environment and to resolve the stair-climbing problem.","PeriodicalId":176081,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (IEEE Cat. No.04EX891)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125718267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}