{"title":"Modelling and Simulation of AGVs Using Petri Nets","authors":"Tauseef Aized","doi":"10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555622","url":null,"abstract":"It is a technologically anticipated development that robotics in our age will become widespread and find common application areas in almost all sectors such as defense, transportation, health, service and manufacturing. This process is still expanding and the role of robots in everyday life as well as in industrial applications is increasing. One of the important applications of robotic systems in manufacturing environments is automated guided vehicles (AGVs). AGVs are autonomous systems controlled by a central control unit, operate autonomously without the need for an operator, and are used for transporting materials from one point to another [1-3]. An AGV reduces the number of occupational accidents that occur due to human beings because it fulfills all kinds of transportation operations without human interference in departments such as production, logistics, warehouse and distribution. These systems, which are used to transport all kinds of goods in industrial environments, are one of the most suitable systems to reduce costs and increase productivity. The AGVs can see the obstacles in their way due to the highest level of security measures used and sensors, slow down and stay at a safe distance. So, they can work safely in the same environment with people. Because of all these features and modularity, AGVs are frequently used in modern and flexible manufacturing systems today.","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"156 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114098073","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":"Methods of Game Theory in Safe Maritime Transport","authors":"J. Lisowski","doi":"10.19080/raej.2018.03.555620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/raej.2018.03.555620","url":null,"abstract":"Taking into consideration the form of the quality index the problems of optimal control of the maritime objects may be split into three groups, for which the cost of the process course: is a univocal control function, depends on the way of control and also on a certain random event of a known statistical description and is defined by a choice of the control method and by a certain indefinite factor of an unknown statistical description. The last group of the problems refers to game control systems the synthesis of which is performed by using methods of the games theory.","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121369018","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":"Remote Access Laboratory for Delivering a Junior Level Computer Engineering Course","authors":"M. Tahernezhadi","doi":"10.19080/raej.2018.03.555618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/raej.2018.03.555618","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and development of an embedded processor driven online laboratory facility to support a junior level computer engineering course in an Electrical Engineering or a Computer Engineering program. The developed experiments can be accessed remotely over the web using a suitable graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI also provides the remote users with live video feed using an IP Camera-providing them with real time feedback. Also, remote users can upload their own program to test and analyze the interfaces made with the Arduino board. The remote user is also provided with the ability to get real-time feedback and download their data for offline analysis. In addition, the system has a logic analyzer and a switching circuit. The logic analyzer analyzes data flow between two controllers, while the switching circuit can be used to reconfigure hardware connections remotely.","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124631923","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":"Nonlinear Systems Estimation in Renewable Energies","authors":"A. Brouri","doi":"10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555617","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, nonlinear system used in renewable energies is dealt. These nonlinear systems can be described by blocksoriented. Lately, these types of models are increasingly used practically [1-4]. Nonlinear systems estimation parameters are a necessary step in control [5-7]. The nonlinear element can be in input of system (Figure 1) or in output of system (Figure 2). If the two blocks are parametric, the determination of parameters nonlinear system can be done using quite a few solutions e.g. [14]. When both parts are parametric, the identification problem has been dealt with using several methods e.g. [1,8-10]. Twostage nonlinear parameters estimation solutions, involving two stages, have been established in e.g. [1,8-10]. Presently, a solution nonlinear parameters estimation is dealt. The considered nonlinear system has a nonlinear element in output of system (Figure 2).","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128102812","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":"Industry 4.0`S Product Development Process Aided by Robotic Process Automation","authors":"C. Ciufudean","doi":"10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555614","url":null,"abstract":"So, in order to implement Industry 4.0 fast and costless we need to capture and illustrate existing applications as well as new ones for processing ensuring a reliable productlife cycle [4] and to efficiently process transactions, assuring smart services, manage big data and communicate with other digital systems. In other words Industry 4.0 is relying on the RPA development. We should explain this statement by considering the fact that for existence of real world Industry 4.0 the digitalization and connectivity are essential as human to machine interfaces, as well as machine to machine interfaces are efficiently supported by managing huge amount of data through Internet of Things technologies. Real time concept all along the value chain is possible to realize using Big Data (BD) techniques and technologies. Smart Service concept is nowadays inseparable with the concept of sustainable development. Smart Service is defined by the link between product and a detecting, diagnosing, correcting, controlling and interconnected digital service in order to obtain an added value to product [5-7].","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131626514","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":"Safety and Automation of Collaborative Robot System in Work Environment","authors":"Richard Olawoyin","doi":"10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555613","url":null,"abstract":"A few factors are important for determining the effects of automation on the work environment, including the technological design and applications, approaches used for their presentation, and the automation goals of the organization’s management team. The application of robotics and automation to industrial processes provide optimization benefits relative to the work processes, however, the potential also exist for new situations to develop that may introduce system risks and human psychological risks to the employees. The main goal is to plan, design and implement robotic and automation programs that will be beneficial to the workforce, improving productivity, safety and quality.","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116374804","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":"Wireless Glove for Hand Gesture Acknowledgment: Sign Language to Discourse Change Framework in Territorial Dialect","authors":"Shahrukh Javed","doi":"10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555609","url":null,"abstract":"Generally deaf-dumb people use sign language for communication, but they find it difficult to communicate in a society where most of the people do not understand sign language. Due to which communications between deaf-mute and a normal person have always been a challenging task. The idea proposed in this paper is a digital wireless glove which can convert sign language to text and speech output. The glove is embedded with flex sensors and a 9DOF inertial measurement unit (IMU) to recognize the gesture. A 9-degree of freedom inertial measurement unit (IMU) and flex sensors are used to track the orientation of fingers and motion of hand in three dimensional spaces which senses the gestures of a person in the form of bend of fingers and tilt of the hand fist. This system was tried for its practicality in changing over gesture based communication and gives the continuous discourse yield in local dialect and additionally shows the text on GLCD module. The text show being in English, the voice yield of the glove will be in provincial dialect (here Kannada). So this glove goes about as a communicator which in part encourages them to get their necessities and an interpreter giving greater adaptability in correspondence. In spite of the fact that the glove is planned for gesture based communication to discourse transformation, it is a multipurpose glove and discovers its applications in gaming, mechanical autonomy and therapeutic field.In this paper, we propose an approach to avoid the gap between customer and software robotics development. We define a EUD (End-User Development) environment based on the visual programming environment Scratch, which has already proven in children learning computer science. We explain the interests of the environment and show two examples based on the Lego Mindstorms and on the Robosoft Kompai robot.","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117252638","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":"End User Live Programming Environment for Robotics","authors":"Jannik Laval","doi":"10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555608","url":null,"abstract":"Robots are more and more presents in our environment. Even if the manufacturers make robots enough intelligent to integrate every place by using SLAM for example, customers will need to specialize their robots to make them more familiar and more adapted to the need. For that, customers need to integrate new features that should be easily added to the robot. For now, the development of new features needs computer-programming knowledge. In this paper, we propose an approach to avoid the gap between customer and software robotics development. We define a EUD (End-User Development) environment based on the visual programming environment Scratch, which has already proven in children learning computer science. We explain the interests of the environment and show two examples based on the Lego Mindstorms and on the Robosoft Kompai robot.","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117235870","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":"Nature - Inspired Robotics","authors":"Kshitij Shinghal","doi":"10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/RAEJ.2018.03.555606","url":null,"abstract":"We all know that creations of nature are unique and the mechanism and phenomenon occurring in nature have various unique characteristics which humans are not able to mimic till date. Robots simplify the human tasks and make it possible to perform various tasks which poses threat or are performed in an environment which is not safe for humans to work. Nature inspired robotics is a relatively emerging field of robotics in which concepts or working principles are inspired from the nature to make the robotics task simpler or easier. Biological systems or natural systems evolve or adapt according to their habitat, for example the aquatic animals have webbed feet which enables them to swim better. Similarly, some fishes have slimy gel type layer covering their body which give assort of water repelling effect. A floating or swimming robot may be designed on the basis of above principles which may result in waterproof robot with swimming capabilities. Numerous research activities are already being carried out to make bio inspired robots. The scope of nature inspired robots is immeasurable. The modern-day drones can improve the aerodynamics from the birds, butterflies or even insects like grasshoppers. A stair case climbing octobot robot can get inspired from a spider or an octopus. If a robot is able to adjust or adapt itself through any landscape, over any terrain the prospects become limitless.","PeriodicalId":284212,"journal":{"name":"Robotics & Automation Engineering Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130242133","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}