Sergej Popesku, E. Meister, F. Schlachter, P. Levi
{"title":"Active wheel - An autonomous modular robot","authors":"Sergej Popesku, E. Meister, F. Schlachter, P. Levi","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758566","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel robotic platform is introduced, which is able to support other modular robots during the locomotion or self-repair process to increase efficiency of locomotion, payload and runtime. The robot is able to operate autonomous as a stand-alone robot in a swarm or aggregate into robot organisms. We outline the developmental phases of the final robot generation, including mechanics, electronics and software design.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116216557","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}
D. Limbu, Chern Yuen Anthony Wong, A. H. J. Tay, Tran Anh Dung, Y. Tan, T. H. Dat, A. Wong, Wen Zheng Terence Ng, Ridong Jiang, Li Jun
{"title":"Affective social interaction with CuDDler robot","authors":"D. Limbu, Chern Yuen Anthony Wong, A. H. J. Tay, Tran Anh Dung, Y. Tan, T. H. Dat, A. Wong, Wen Zheng Terence Ng, Ridong Jiang, Li Jun","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758580","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces an implemented affective social robot, called CuDDler. The goal of this research is to explore and demonstrate the utility of a robot that is capable of recognising and responding to a user's emotional acts (i.e., affective stimuli), thereby improving the social interactions. CuDDler uses two main modalities; a) audio (i.e., linguistics and non-linguistics sounds) and b) visual (i.e., facial expressions) to recognise the user's emotional acts. Similarly, CuDDler has two modalities; a) gesture and b) sound to respond or express its emotional responses. During the TechFest 2012 event, CuDDler successfully demonstrated its capability of recognising the user's emotional acts and responding its expression accordingly. Although, CuDDler is still in its early prototyping stage, the preliminary survey results indicate that the CuDDler has potential to not only aid in human-robot interaction but also contribute towards the long term goal of multi-model emotion recognition and socially interactive robot.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115485713","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":"Novel automatic posture detection for in-patient care using IMU sensors","authors":"Vo Nhat Nguyen, Haoyong Yu","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758555","url":null,"abstract":"Posture detection using Inertia Measurement Unit (IMU) has recently attracted great interests in healthcare research community. However, very few studies focus on the applications of this technology in the care of inpatients. This specific group of users, who are moderately to severely ill, have a distinct set of postures and activities that require special attentions and continuous monitoring from clinicians. In this paper, we present a novel methodology for automatic detection of postures for hospitalized patients using two wearable IMU sensors, with tri-axial accelerometers, attached at the chest and the abdomen respectively. The data were collected from participants who were carefully instructed to perform activities and attain postures that simulate those of hospitalized patients in real life. From the data retrieved, we performed orientation analysis for acceleration vectors and transition analysis for transitional activities between various postures. Both rule-based detection and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for transition recognition achieved high accuracy. The results also showed that a combination of orientation and transition study could enhance the robustness of the detection algorithm. Due to its efficiency and simplicity, the proposed method could find its way into many applications that aim to improve the current state of inpatient healthcare.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115641385","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":"Robot Inclusive Space challenge: A design initiative","authors":"R. E. Mohan, Nicolás Rojas, R. Sosa, John Kaisner","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758562","url":null,"abstract":"The Robot Inclusive Space challenge is a cross disciplinary design initiative set to foster collaboration between roboticists, engineers, designers, and architects towards realizing robot friendly social environments. In this paper, we present the motivations behind the targeted initiative and analyze the design principles associated with real world deployment of robots in social spaces. This paper identifies the critical need to further strengthen the design principles and underlying guidelines through the challenge with the latter expected to have a significant impact in a variety of application scenarios.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131469663","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":"Rollover prevention with Predictive Control of differential braking and rear wheel steering","authors":"Shihao Lee, F. Yakub, M. Kasahara, Y. Mori","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758574","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to increase knowledge about a Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach to untripped rollover prevention of heavy vehicles which make a panic lane change maneuver in order to avoid an obstacle in the path. Active differential braking control shows good effect on limit roll angle during an urgent situation. However, at the same time of avoiding rollover accidents, prohibiting the vehicle from the driver's intended and the vehicle's actual lane can also yield other accidents such as bumping into guard rails or cones. Thus, it is necessary to track the driver's desired path as closely as possible while preventing the vehicle from rollover. Here, a new control method of switching the MPC controllers which uses differential braking with dead zone and active rear steer are proposed. Simultaneously, the trade-off between rollover prevention and path tracking is highlighted through simulation results. The effectiveness of using switching controllers designed for the trade-off solution is also confirmed through simulation results.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115734324","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}
C. Datta, H. Y. Yang, I. Kuo, E. Broadbent, B. MacDonald
{"title":"Software platform design for personal service robots in healthcare","authors":"C. Datta, H. Y. Yang, I. Kuo, E. Broadbent, B. MacDonald","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758576","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the software platform design of a personal service robot with application to healthcare scenarios. The platform was designed after exploration of both the service application and software architectural design spaces. The service application considered here is a comprehensive medication management service which evolved to be one of the more complex use cases in the Healthbots project. While algorithms and user studies of human robot interaction are reported in the literature, there is less attention given to related software frameworks and tools, which are addressed in this paper. The paper focuses and solves numerous design challenges to achieve the desired functionality of the medication management service with its complex set of workflow and contextual requirements which were not present in the software platforms we had designed. The robots were used in a real world deployment scenario at an Aged Care Facility. Scenarios and results from a field trial are presented to enable the research community to understand the technological and engineering challenges of deployment of the robot system and the level of fluid integration required to achieve the desired goals of functionality and robustness in the real world.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129387981","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 dynamic model for haptic systems with planar mechanisms","authors":"C. Antonya","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758579","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to present a new partitioning method for solving the equation of motion of a planar mechanism with more than one degree of freedom, using a hybrid dynamic model. The procedure is according to the Newton-Euler formalism with Lagrange equations and can be used in the case that some of the applied forces acting on the elements of the mechanism are unknown, but the time history of generalized coordinate variation (acceleration) of the same elements are imposed. The resulting equations can be used for real time simulations whenever some of the external forces are unknown (but the motion of the same elements are tracked or imposed) and when a high rate of update is expected. For example virtual prototyping with haptic systems needs a very fast haptic rendering loop and forces developed by the user are unknown. Fast simulation makes possible the expansion of the frequency of aliased harmonics of the generated forces in the haptic system, so that it can better mechanically filter them, allowing a wider bandwidth of force. Haptic interaction with an accurate and fast dynamic simulation provides unique insights into the behaviors of the virtual prototype. The proposed partitioning method can be used only in these special circumstances and enforce dynamic consistency over time.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123741940","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":"Automatic onboard and online modelling of modular and self-reconfigurable robots","authors":"E. Meister, E. Nosov, P. Levi","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758565","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce a framework for automatic generation of dynamic equations for modular and reconfigurable robotic systems. The framework is developed in C++ and is capable to deal with both symbolic and numerical type of variables. For this reason, the model for kinematics and dynamics can either be formulated symbolically with high precisions or numerically if the computing time is for major interest. These capabilities makes it powerful for many different scientific and practical applications. The framework was first developed and evaluated in MATLAB and has been finally ported to modular robots running on an embedded processor. Different multi robot configurations have been evaluated and compared with simulation results.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129236585","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":"Metric mapping and topo-metric graph learning of urban road network","authors":"B. Qin, Z. J. Chong, T. Bandyopadhyay, M. Ang","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758570","url":null,"abstract":"A road map serves as a model of the road network, which is especially desired for a vehicle performing autonomous navigation in urban road environment. This paper first introduces a metric mapping algorithm for urban roads, which generates an occupancy grid map of road surfaces and boundaries. Based on the metric map, we further propose an approach to extract a topo-metric graph which captures both topological and metric information of the road network. As a detailed model of the urban roads, the metric map can be used for obstacle avoidance and local path planning, while the topo-metric graph as a compact representation that can be used for some high-level reasoning processes. Our proposed algorithms are tested in real experiments, and have shown good results.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127423817","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}
ByungHoon Seo, HyunGyu Kim, Minhyeok Kim, Yanheng Liu, Kyungmin Jeong, Taewon Seo
{"title":"Novel robotic platform for stable stair climbing by flipping locomotion","authors":"ByungHoon Seo, HyunGyu Kim, Minhyeok Kim, Yanheng Liu, Kyungmin Jeong, Taewon Seo","doi":"10.1109/RAM.2013.6758568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAM.2013.6758568","url":null,"abstract":"To fully complete the mission, it is essential for field robots to obtain the ability of overcoming various obstacles. Because of the various scale and shapes of the stairs, it is the obstacle which is the most easily access but hard to overcome. Therefore, stair climbing is essential to field robots. In this research, we set the climbing stairs with high stability at a high speed as our goal. The new robot platform suggested in this research climbs the stairs by flipping-body locomotion as human tumbling. We called this robot `FlipBot' from body flip locomotion. In this paper, we introduce the FlipBot design and experiment result of first prototype.","PeriodicalId":287085,"journal":{"name":"2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127943528","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}