Automation is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension and plays an increasingly important role in the global economy and in our daily lives. Engineers combine automated devices with ...mathematical and organizational tools to create complex systems for a rapidly expanding range of applications and human activities. The Springer Handbook of Automation incorporates these new developments and presents a widespread and well-structured conglomeration of new emerging application areas of automation. Besides manufacturing as a primary application of automation, the handbook provides the most advanced, comprehensive, and balanced coverage of the technical and engineering aspects of automation. It covers all the major cutting-edge technologies of production automation and material handling, and contains new application areas such as medical systems and health, transportation, security and maintenance, service, construction and retail as well as production or logistics. This Springer Handbook, edited by an internationally renowned and experienced expert is not only an ideal resource for automation experts but also for people new to this expanding field such as engineers, computer scientists, designers. Key Topics › Development and impacts of automation › Theory and scientific foundations › Design theory, elements, and methods including integration › Industrial automation, infrastructure and service › Medical and healthcare systems › Home, office, and enterprise automation Features › Contains over 1005 color illustrations (including 222 four-color) many from real-world industry sources and 149 tables › Comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals › Ideal resource not only for automation experts › Emphasizes concepts over extensive mathematical derivations › Goes beyond the applications in industrial settings
This book contributes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2006, held in Penang, Malaysia in July 2006. The 31 revised full papers ...cover such topics as personalization in e-learning, designs, model and framework of e-learning systems, implementations and evaluations of e-learning systems, learning resource deployment, organization and management, and tools in e-learning.
ESAW 2005 took place at the Pine Bay Hotel in Kusadasi, Turkey at the end of the October 2005. It was organized as a stand-alone event as were ESAW 2004and ESAW 2003.Following the initial ESAW ...vision,which wasset in 1999, by the members of the working group on “Communication, Coordination and Collaboration” of Agentlink, ESAW 2005 continued to focus on the engineering of complex software systems in terms of multi-agent societies, especially the social and environmental aspects of such societies. The number of participants (40 researchers from 10 countries) and the highly interactive discussions held during the workshop showed the augmented importance of the initial vision as well as the effectiveness of ESAW as a well-established research forum. It is obvious that today’s interconnected world increases the importance of approaches concerning the engineering of complex and distributed software systems. These kinds of large scale systems, made up of massive numbers of autonomous components, force us to discover new and novel approaches to model and engineer such systems as agent societies. It is very likely that such innovations will exploit lessons from a variety of different scientific disciplines, such as sociology, economics, organizational science and biology: ESAW 2005 included presentations from these domains in addition to its traditional - search topics.
It is at least two decades since the conventional robotic manipulators have become a common manufacturing tool for different industries, from automotive to pharmaceutical. The new generation of ...robots are now being developed that can be categorized in two groups, redundant (and hyper-redundant) manipulators, and mobile (ground, marine, and aerial) robots. These groups of robots, known as advanced robots, have more freedom for their mobility, which allows them to do tasks that the conventional robots cannot do. Engineers have taken advantage of the extra mobility of the advanced robots to make them work in constrained environments, ranging from limited joint motions for redundant (or hyper-redundant) manipulators to obstacles in the way of mobile (ground, marine, and aerial) robots. Autonomous Robots: Modeling, Path Planning, and Control covers the kinematics and dynamic modeling/analysis of Autonomous Robots, as well as the methods suitable for their control. Drawing upon years of experience and using numerous examples and illustrations, Farbod Fahimi discusses: The application of autonomous robots including but not limited to redundant and hyper-redundant manipulators, and ground, marine, and aerial robots.Position and velocity kinematics of redundant and hyper-redundant manipulators.Obstacle avoidance in 2D and 3D workspace using the potential field method.Kinematic and dynamic models of autonomous robots.Control methods such as PID, feedback linearization, sliding modes as applied to autonomous robots.Autonomous Robots: Modeling , Path Planning, and Control is suitable for mechanical and electrical engineers who want to familiarize themselves with methods of modeling/analysis/control that have been proven efficient through research. This book presents the theoretical tools for analyzing the dynamics of and controlling Autonomous Robots in a form comprehensible for students and en
This book details the use of random finite sets (RFS) and finite set statistics (FISST) in robotics. It focuses on the representation of the environment and its uncertainty, and presents pseudo-code ...implementations of all the RFS techniques.
Teknologi robotika berkembang semakin pesat di era Revolusi Industri 4.0. Berbagai macam robot semakin mewarnai kehidupan sehari-hari. Keadaan yang demikian menjadikan pelajar tertarik ...mempelajarinya, sehingga MAN 1 Jombang sebagai salah satu lembaga pendidikan menjadikan robotika sebagai salah satu kegiatan ekstrakurikulernya. Sayangnya, ekstrakurikuler robotika di MAN 1 Jombang semakin sedikit pesertanya. Untuk mengantisipasi semakin menurunya anggota ekstrakurikuler ini, MAN 1 Jombang dan tim PKM Jurusan Fisika Universitas Negeri Surabaya mengadakan pelatihan dasar robot line tracer analog yang ditujukan bagi para siswa MAN 1 Jombang. Sebanyak 17 siswa MAN 1 Jombang yang terbagi dalam enam kelompok mengikuti pelatihan ini. Dari keenam kelompok tersebut telah berhasil dirakit enam buah robot line tracer analog. Para siswa peserta pelatihan sangat antusias mengikuti kegiatan ini bahkan merasa termotivasi untuk mempelajari lebih lanjut bidang robotika meskipun beberapa merasa bahwa bidang ini tidaklah mudah dipelajari.
Robotic engineering inspired by biology—biomimetics—has many potential applications: robot snakes can be used for rescue operations in disasters, snake-like endoscopes can be used in medical ...diagnosis, and artificial muscles can replace damaged muscles to recover the motor functions of human limbs. Conversely, the application of robotics technology to our understanding of biological systems and behaviors—biorobotic modeling and analysis—provides unique research opportunities: robotic manipulation technology with optical tweezers can be used to study the cell mechanics of human red blood cells, a surface electromyography sensing system can help us identify the relation between muscle forces and hand movements, and mathematical models of brain circuitry may help us understand how the cerebellum achieves movement control. Biologically Inspired Robotics contains cutting-edge material—considerably expanded and with additional analysis—from the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO). These 16 chapters cover both biomimetics and biorobotic modeling/analysis, taking readers through an exploration of biologically inspired robot design and control, micro/nano bio-robotic systems, biological measurement and actuation, and applications of robotics technology to biological problems. Contributors examine a wide range of topics, including: A method for controlling the motion of a robotic snake The design of a bionic fitness cycle inspired by the jaguar The use of autonomous robotic fish to detect pollution A noninvasive brain-activity scanning method using a hybrid sensor A rehabilitation system for recovering motor function in human hands after injury Human-like robotic eye and head movements in human–machine interactions A state-of-the-art resource for graduate students and researchers.
Laboratorij za autonomne sustave i mobilnu robotiku (LAMOR) istraživački je laboratorij koji djeluje u okviru Zavoda za automatiku i računalno inženjerstvo Fakulteta elektrotehnike i računarstva ...Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. LAMOR je jedan od vodećih laboratorija u Republici Hrvatskoj u području robotike, a svoje je istraživačko djelovanje usmjerio na temeljna istraživanja algoritama upravljanja, estimacije i umjetne inteligencije s primjenom u razvoju sustava autonomije mobilnih robota i vozila u nepoznatim i dinamičkim okruženjima te sustava djelotvorne i sigurne interakcije autonomnih mobilnih robota i ljudi. U radu je opisana uspostava laboratorija i prikazan je njegov 20-godišnji razvoj, a potom su predstavljene osnovne informacije o njegovoj istraživačkoj djelatnosti, najznačajnijim znanstvenim postignućima, najvažnijim istraživačkim projektima, međunarodnoj suradnji te doprinosu razvoju znanosti i gospodarstva u Republici Hrvatskoj.
The development of information technology enabled us to exchange more items of information among us no matter how far we are apart from each other. It also changed our way of communication. Various ...types of robots recently promoted to be sold to general public hint that these robots may further influence our daily life as they physically interact with us and handle objects in environment. We may even recognize a feel of presence similar to that of human beings when we talk to a robot or when a robot takes part in our conversation. The impact will be strong enough for us to think about the meaning of communication. This e-book consists of various studies that examine our communication influenced by robots. Topics include our attitudes toward robot behaviors, designing robots for better communicating with people, and how people can be affected by communicating through robots.
