{"title":"A System to Generate Robot Emotional Reaction for Robot-Human Communication","authors":"Zehra Nur Olgun, Yu-Jung Chae, Changhwan Kim","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441885","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent system emotion modeling process is dependent on various internal and external. This paper describes an emotional system for intelligent agents, robots specifically, that proposes the idea of emotional learning and generation system to realize human-like emotions in robots. Using basic emotions, a way to construct complex emotions is proposed. Results from experiments indicate that the system has a correlation with perceiving and generating emotions that are parallel with real human emotions.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123472315","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}
V. Nguyen, C. T. Pham, Van Dong Nguyen, Dae Hwan Kim, T. Nguyen
{"title":"A Study on Force Generated by Gymnotiform Undulating Fin","authors":"V. Nguyen, C. T. Pham, Van Dong Nguyen, Dae Hwan Kim, T. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441812","url":null,"abstract":"Underwater vehicles inspired by the motion of fish can generate a highly efficient force. This paper considers the gymnotiform undulating fin which imitates the motion of South American black ghost knifefish. The equations of the force generated by both continuous and discontinuous sine wave are established. Using these equations, the factors influencing this force are determined. The results in computational method, experimental method and 2D simulation method are matched and suggest the set of three prevalent factors, namely frequency, amplitude and wavelength.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123845778","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":"Numerical Study for Surface-breaking Crack Detection on a Cylinder Using Laser-generated Ultrasound","authors":"Xuekun Liu, Shixi Yang, Yong-qiang Liu","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441815","url":null,"abstract":"Laser ultrasonic has been widely investigated for its high spatial resolution, non-contact generation and distant testing. In this study, the laser induced waves on a cylinder is simulated based on an explicit finite element model, and the location of the surface-breaking crack is determined using signal enhancement of surface waves on the cylinder. A feature is extracted based on wavelet packet transform and singularity value decomposition (WPT-SVD) to gauge the depth of surface-breaking crack. The simulation results show that the feature is sensitive to the surface-breaking crack, with an accurate location determined by an enhancement of surface waves when the crack is close to the laser source. This study provides a potential application for testing surface-breaking cracks on the rotating cylindrical component.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125119225","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}
Xianjiang Shi, Jian Zhang, Xiangdong Zhu, Junshan Si
{"title":"Research on over modulation response and demodulation method of motor current signals for rolling bearing faults","authors":"Xianjiang Shi, Jian Zhang, Xiangdong Zhu, Junshan Si","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441819","url":null,"abstract":"In order to solve the over modulation frequency aliasing problem caused by high frequency mechanical fault in the analysis of stator current signals, the over modulation phenomenon and the reason of frequency aliasing are analyzed by digital simulation technology. A single-sideband modulation frequency-shift demodulation method is proposed by reference the principle of single-sideband Weaver modulation and demodulation in carrier communication. The local impact fault detection in rolling bearings outer ring is taken as an example, the mechanical model of the impact torque is established when the rolling element passes through the local fault of the outer ring. On the basis of this, it is carried out that the fault model simulation analysis of motor driven rolling bearing, and comparing with the actual motor stator current signal measured by rolling bearing fault analog test bench. The results show that although the motor stator current signal can effectively modulate the high frequency impact signal such as the rolling bearing local defect, spurious aliasing frequency components tend to exist due to over modulation phenomenon. The modulation single-sideband signal frequency-shift demodulation spectrum proposed in this paper can effectively solve these problems, which provides a new solution to extract high frequency modulated signals for the stator current analysis diagnosis method.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121193503","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}
Kyu-Seob Song, Young-Hoon Nho, Ju-Hwan Seo, D. Kwon
{"title":"Decision-Level Fusion Method for Emotion Recognition using Multimodal Emotion Recognition Information","authors":"Kyu-Seob Song, Young-Hoon Nho, Ju-Hwan Seo, D. Kwon","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441795","url":null,"abstract":"Human emotion recognition is an important factor for social robots. In previous research, emotion recognizers with many modalities have been studied, but there are several problems that make recognition rates lower when a recognizer is applied to a robot. This paper proposes a decision level fusion method that takes the outputs of each recognizer as an input and confirms which combination of features achieves the highest accuracy. We used EdNet, which was developed in KAIST based Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), as a facial expression recognizer and a speech analytics engine developed for speech emotion recognition. Finally, we confirmed a higher accuracy 43.40% using an artificial neural network (ANN) or the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm for classification of combinations of features from EdN et and the speech analytics engine.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129643923","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}
Yue Li, Jinhua Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Yanqing Xiao, Jun Hong, M. Y. Wang, Yanyi Li
{"title":"Design of Isometric and Isotonic Soft Hand for Rehabilitation Combining with Noninvasive Brain Machine Interface","authors":"Yue Li, Jinhua Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Yanqing Xiao, Jun Hong, M. Y. Wang, Yanyi Li","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441816","url":null,"abstract":"Comparing with the traditional way for hand rehabilitation, such as simple trainers and artificial rigid auxiliary, this paper presents an isometric and isotonic soft hand for rehabilitation supported by the soft robots theory which aims to satisfy the more comprehensive rehabilitation requirements. Salient features of the device are the ability to achieve higher and controllable stiffness for both isometric and isotonic contraction. Then we analyze the active control for isometric and isotonic movement through electroencephalograph (EEG) signal. This paper focuses on three issues. The first is using silicon rubber to build a soft finger which can continuously stretch and bend to fit the basic action of the fingers. The second is changing stiffness of the finger through the coordination between variable stiffness cavity and actuating cavity. The last is to classify different EEG states based on isometric and isotonic contraction using common spatial pattern feature extraction (CSP) methods and support vector machine classification methods (SVM). On this basis, an EEG-based manipulator control system was set up.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122446441","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":"Identifying Gender Differences in Information Processing Style, Self-efficacy, and Tinkering for Robot Tele-operation","authors":"Dilruba Showkat, C. Grimm","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441766","url":null,"abstract":"As robots become more ubiquitous it is important to understand how different groups of people respond to possible ways of interacting with the robot. In this study, we focused on gender differences while users were tele-operating a humanoid robot that was physically co-located with them. We investigated three factors during the human-robot interaction (1) information processing strategy (2) self-efficacy and (3) tinkering or exploratory behavior. Experimental result show that the information on how to use the robot was processed comprehensively by the female participants whereas males processed them selectively $(pmb{p} < mathbf{0.001})$. Males were more confident when using the robot than females $(pmb{p}=mathbf{0.0002})$. Males tinkered more with the robot than females $(pmb{p} = mathbf{0.0021})$. Tinkering might have resulted in greater task success and lower task completion time for males. Similar to existing work on software interface usability, our results show the importance of accounting for gender differences when developing interfaces for interacting with robots.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122552856","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":"Development of a wall-climbing drone with a rotary arm for climbing various-shaped surfaces","authors":"W. Myeong, Seungwon Song, H. Myung","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441807","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel wall-climbing drone installed with a rotary arm is proposed for climb operation on various shaped walls. Robots that can climb the wall are applicable to many operations such as structural health monitoring of high-rise buildings, bridges, nuclear power plants; maintenance of solar panels and glass walls; and visual inspection of the aircraft and vessels. Traditional wall-climbing robots use magnetic, vacuum, or bioinspired methods mimicking gecko foot for those purposes. However, those methods cannot be applied to various-shaped walls like inclined, and an obstacle existing walls such as window frames. To solve this problem, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-type wall-climbing robots have recently been developed, but those types have disadvantages in terms of energy efficiency and impact in attaching and detaching processes. Therefore, in this paper, a wall-climbing drone with a rotary arm is proposed. The angle of the rotary arm is controlled depending on the slope angle of the wall to achieve energy efficiency. The drone was prototyped and tested in indoor environment to verify the feasibility of the mechanism.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124052935","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":"Allowable Maximum Safe Velocity Control based on Human-Robot Distance for Collaborative Robot","authors":"Heonseop Shin, Kwangmo Seo, S. Rhim","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441887","url":null,"abstract":"Recently collaborative robots which share the workspace with human attract much attention from the industry and the researchers. This paper suggests a method of controlling the velocity of the robot at the allowable maximum velocity to ensure human safety even when the distance between the robot and the person becomes inevitably closer than the safe separation distance. The allowable maximum safe velocity is calculated using the collision model which predicts the collision peak pressure and the peak force between the robot and the human in the case of collision. The pressure and force threshold given in ISO/TS 15066 is used to estimate the allowable maximum velocity of the robot as a function of the distance between the robot and the human. By operating the robot at its allowable maximum velocity the productivity of the collaborative operation can be enhanced without jeopardizing the safety of the human. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified through simulation results in this paper.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124058264","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":"Deep blood vessel visualization over 10-mm depth using NIR light","authors":"B. Shin, Deukhee Lee","doi":"10.1109/URAI.2018.8441817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2018.8441817","url":null,"abstract":"Administering intravenous injection is a common procedure in the medical field. However, it is sometimes difficult even for professionals to administer it owing to the deep subcutaneous blood vessels of some patients. Although several devices have been developed to overcome this problem, there still exist limitations when visualizing deep blood vessels within the subcutaneous tissue. In this paper, we propose a new blood vessel visualization method using near-infrared (NIR) light. The NIR light source module of the proposed method has the shape of a picture frame with an open middle and is placed on the patient's skin just above the target vessel and firmly fastened. Then, NIR beams, which are well-absorbed by blood, are emitted from four sides of the light source module to just below the target vessel; these NIR beams penetrate through the target vessel and an image can be acquired using an NIR camera. The image is enhanced through a series of image processing methods proposed by us to more clearly show the vessel. Through a phantom study, it is demonstrated that blood vessels up to a depth of 15 mm can be visualized. In addition, an in vivo test shows that our proposed method performs well on curved or branchy blood vessels.","PeriodicalId":347727,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117098882","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}