Hen-Wei Huang, M. Sakar, K. Riederer, Naveen Shamsudhin, A. Petruska, S. Pané, B. Nelson
{"title":"Magnetic microrobots with addressable shape control","authors":"Hen-Wei Huang, M. Sakar, K. Riederer, Naveen Shamsudhin, A. Petruska, S. Pané, B. Nelson","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487315","url":null,"abstract":"Shape shifting soft microrobots are generated from self-folding hydrogel bilayer structures. The folding conditions are analyzed to develop an optimal strategy for producing desired three-dimensional shapes. We present two different methods for programming magnetization in these microrobots that are variant and invariant to folding. The microrobots can be navigated through user-defined trajectories using rotating magnetic fields, and the morphing in response to temperature changes can be tuned for adaptive behavior. On-demand modulation of the mobility of individual microrobots is demonstrated by morphing their shape using selective near infrared light (NIR) exposure.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126170169","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":"Saccade Mirror 3: High-speed gaze controller with ultra wide gaze control range using triple rotational mirrors","authors":"K. Iida, H. Oku","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487186","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the prototype of a new optical high-speed gaze controller, named Saccade Mirror 3, that overcomes the limited gaze control range (~60 deg) of our previously proposed high-speed gaze controller, called Saccade Mirror. Saccade Mirror 3 is based on three automated rotational mirrors, and this gaze control mechanism can achieve an ultrawide gaze control range of 360 deg in theory. A prototype was developed based on this mechanism. A gaze control range of over 260 degrees in the pan direction and a high-speed response of about 10 ms were confirmed. Furthermore, the prototype was applied to high-speed visual tracking coupled with a 1000 fps high-speed vision system. A visual tracking algorithm was developed for this mechanism, and high-speed tracking of a table tennis ball in play and a flying drone was successfully demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116065727","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}
Suproteem K. Sarkar, J. Das, R. Ehsani, Vijay R. Kumar
{"title":"Towards autonomous phytopathology: Outcomes and challenges of citrus greening disease detection through close-range remote sensing","authors":"Suproteem K. Sarkar, J. Das, R. Ehsani, Vijay R. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487719","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to significantly impact early detection and monitoring of plant diseases. In this paper, we present preliminary work in developing a UAV-mounted sensor suite for detection of citrus greening disease, a major threat to Florida citrus production. We propose a depth-invariant sensing methodology for measuring reflectance of polarized amber light, a metric which has been found to measure starch accumulation in greening-infected leaves. We describe the implications of adding depth information to this method, including the use of machine learning models to discriminate between healthy and infected leaves with validation accuracies up to 93%. Additionally, we discuss stipulations and challenges of use of the system with UAV platforms. This sensing system has the potential to allow for rapid scanning of groves to determine the spread of the disease, especially in areas where infection is still in early stages, including citrus farms in California. Although presented in the context of citrus greening disease, the methods can be applied to a variety of plant pathology studies, enabling timely monitoring of plant health-impacting scientists, growers, and policymakers.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116149680","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}
Milad Geravand, Erfan Shahriari, Alessandro De Luca, A. Peer
{"title":"Port-based modeling of human-robot collaboration towards safety-enhancing energy shaping control","authors":"Milad Geravand, Erfan Shahriari, Alessandro De Luca, A. Peer","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487473","url":null,"abstract":"While collision detection and contact-related injury reduction in physical human-robot interaction has been studied intensively, safety issues in physical human-robot collaboration (pHRC) with continuous coupling of human and robot(s) has received little attention so far. We develop an energy monitoring control system that observes energy flows among the different subsystems involved in pHRC, shaping them to improve human safety according to selected metrics. Port-Hamiltonian formalisms are used to model each sub-system and their interconnection. An energy-based compliance controller that enhances safety by adapting the robot behavior is proposed and validated through extensive simulations.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122560636","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}
Jean-Philippe Roberge, Samuel Rispal, T. Wong, Vincent Duchaine
{"title":"Unsupervised feature learning for classifying dynamic tactile events using sparse coding","authors":"Jean-Philippe Roberge, Samuel Rispal, T. Wong, Vincent Duchaine","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487428","url":null,"abstract":"Robotic operations that involve the displacement of objects generate different kinds of dynamic events. These may simply correspond to normal robot-related motion, or contact(s) with the object(s) during grasping, but they may also be potentially-problematic events like slippage. In this paper, we use sparse data from tactile sensors to detect slippage and discriminate object-gripper slip from object-world slip. The method we propose can also identify vibrations that correspond to other dynamic events automatically, even when those events are not related to slippage. The tactile data can then be classified, allowing the robot to react accordingly. To achieve this goal, we compute the power spectral density (PSD) of the tactile dynamic signal, and we apply transformations to the PSD that were inspired by the automatic speech recognition (ASR) field. The originality of this work comes from using a sparse representation of the transformed data to obtain sparse vectors containing a small set of high-level features. Those sparse vectors are then used as inputs to a simple linear support vector machine (SVM), that acts as a classifier and quickly estimates the event to which they correspond. Our method was tested on data obtained from 244 experiments that were conducted on 32 different everyday-objects. Results show that we can successfully discriminate most of the dynamic events we studied in this work. Moreover, by using this technique, we are able to detect slippage with an accuracy of 92.60% and to differentiate object-gripper slip from object-world slip with a success rate of 89.42%.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122992969","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}
Florian Steidle, Andreas Tobergte, A. Albu-Schäffer
{"title":"Optical-inertial tracking of an input device for real-time robot control","authors":"Florian Steidle, Andreas Tobergte, A. Albu-Schäffer","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487202","url":null,"abstract":"Minimally invasive robotic surgery systems are usually controlled by input devices, that are mechanically linked to the environment. These input devices often have a limited workspace, which makes intuitive operation difficult. This paper presents a tracking algorithm of a handheld input device, which combines inertial and optical measurements to obtain accurate and robust state estimates with high update rates and low latency. It is based on the fusion of inertial and optical data in an error state extended Kalman filter. To achieve a high degree of robustness with respect to partial device occlusions, active optical markers are tracked and their 2D positions in the camera planes are directly forwarded to the fusion process. The algorithm can handle partial occlusions of the device in one or all of the cameras. A quality measure is defined, which indicates if tracking performance is sufficient to control a robot. An exemplary task in a medical robotics context verifies the assumption that the tracking system can be used for real-time robot control despite frequent marker occlusions.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114245822","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}
Atabak Dehban, L. Jamone, A. R. Kampff, J. Santos-Victor
{"title":"Denoising auto-encoders for learning of objects and tools affordances in continuous space","authors":"Atabak Dehban, L. Jamone, A. R. Kampff, J. Santos-Victor","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487691","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of affordances facilitates the encoding of relations between actions and effects in an environment centered around the agent. Such an interpretation has important impacts on several cognitive capabilities and manifestations of intelligence, such as prediction and planning. In this paper, a new framework based on denoising Auto-encoders (dA) is proposed which allows an agent to explore its environment and actively learn the affordances of objects and tools by observing the consequences of acting on them. The dA serves as a unified framework to fuse multi-modal data and retrieve an entire missing modality or a feature within a modality given information about other modalities. This work has two major contributions. First, since training the dA is done in continuous space, there will be no need to discretize the dataset and higher accuracies in inference can be achieved with respect to approaches in which data discretization is required (e.g. Bayesian networks). Second, by fixing the structure of the dA, knowledge can be added incrementally making the architecture particularly useful in online learning scenarios. Evaluation scores of real and simulated robotic experiments show improvements over previous approaches while the new model can be applied in a wider range of domains.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114504026","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":"The Stochastic Traveling Salesman Problem and Orienteering for kinodynamic vehicles","authors":"Aviv Adler, S. Karaman","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487441","url":null,"abstract":"In the classic Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), the objective is to find the shortest path that visits a set of target locations. This problem is embedded and essential in many planning problems that arise in robotics, particularly in the domains of exploration, monitoring, surveillance, and reconnaissance. In this paper we consider the Stochastic TSP for Dynamical Systems, where a vehicle with complex dynamics is tasked with visiting n random target locations. By borrowing techniques from the applied probability literature, which were used to study the related stochastic Orienteering problem (where the vehicle has to visit as many of the n points as possible with a path of fixed length), we simplify and extend the existing results for both the TSP and the stochastic Orienteering problems to cases where the target points can be picked up only when the vehicle is in a certain configuration (i.e. it is not enough simply to be on the target point). Specifically, we show that there is a special parameter γ of the dynamics of the vehicle, which governs the length of the TSP tour. The length of the shortest path will then be Θ(n(γ-1)/γ) with very high probability. For stochastic Orienteering, if the path must have length at most λ, the vehicle can pick up Θ(λn1/γ) with very high probability. We also provide simple and efficient path planning algorithms which achieve these bounds, and are therefore within a constant factor of the length of the optimal path with very high probability.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121912692","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":"Full-resolution reconfiguration planning for heterogeneous cube-shaped modular robots with only sliding motion primitive","authors":"H. Kawano","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487730","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a full-resolution reconfiguration algorithm for a heterogeneous modular robot composed of sliding cube modules with a limited motion primitive. We assume that a cube module is not allowed to make convex motions around other modules but is allowed to slide across other modules' surfaces. The availability of reconfiguration algorithm for such a module with limited mobility overcomes restrictions in the design of modular robots. To overcome the limited mobility of the assumed cube module, we introduce a method that compresses a robot with virtual walls and executes a reconfiguration and heterogeneous permutation of the robot structure in the compressed configuration. We prove the correctness and completeness of the proposed algorithm for three-dimensional connected structures. Simulation results show that the reconfiguration in free space is executed in quadratic operating time cost.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122033911","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}
M. Nakajima, Masaru Takeuchi, N. Hisamoto, T. Fukuda, Y. Hasegawa, Qiang Huang
{"title":"Novel In situ nanomanipulation integrated with SEM-CT imaging system","authors":"M. Nakajima, Masaru Takeuchi, N. Hisamoto, T. Fukuda, Y. Hasegawa, Qiang Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487341","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel In situ nanomanipulation integrated with scanning electron microscope- computed tomography (SEM-CT) imaging system for 3D nanomanipulation. In our previous works, a nanorobotic manipulation system was established inside an environmental-SEM (E-SEM) for water-contained samples, including biological organism, based on a real-time high resolution SEM observation. However, the SEM image is limited in two dimensional (2D) and surficial information from the signals of secondly electrons. For nanosurgery applications, such as nanoinjection, it is needed to evaluate the sample in 3D space with its internal information after manipulation. The SEM-CT imaging system is developed for In situ nanomanipulation based on SEM observation. The CT is an effective method to obtain the internal 3D information as a non-destructive manner. The imaging resolution of our SEM-CT system is in less than 400 nm. A Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) was used as a target of biological sample. To improve the contrast of SEM-CT imaging of C. elegans, the X-ray was tested by generating using brass and copper materials. Finally, the nanoinjection was demonstrated with SEM-CT imaging system to C. elegans using the nanoinjector which was fabricated by focused ion beam (FIB) process.","PeriodicalId":200117,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117098567","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}