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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Autonomous Robot"”.
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Neuromodulation Based Control of an Autonomous Robot
… neuromodulatory systems on a relatively simple autonomous robot demonstrating its ability to adapt to changes in the environment. This work presents a control approach based on vertebrate neuromodulation and its implementation on an iRobot Create platform. Three of the built-in sensors, namely, …
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Terrain and Adversary-Aware Autonomous Robot Navigation
<p>In autonomous robot navigation, the robot is able to understand the environment around it for intelligent navigation. From its world model of this environment, it generates a global plan for navigation from a position to a goal based on different factors. This research aims to implement …
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Indoor Geo-location And Tracking Of Mobile Autonomous Robot
The field of robotics has always been one of fascination right from the day of Terminator. Even though we still do not have robots that can actually replicate human action and intelligence, progress is being made in the right direction. Robotic applications range from defense to civilian, in public …
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Semantic Based Learning of Syntax in an Autonomous Robot
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.
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The Resilient Micro Flyer: a New Collision-tolerant Autonomous Robot
This work presents the design, development and autonomous navigation of the Resilient Micro Flyer, a new type of collision-tolerant small aerial robot tailored to traversing and searching within highly confined environments including manhole-sized tubes. The robot is particularly lightweight and …
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A social networking-enabled framework for autonomous robot skill development
Intelligent service robots will need to adapt to unforeseen situations when performing tasks for humans. To do this, they will be expected to continuously develop new skills. Existing frameworks that address robot learning of new skills for a particular task often follow a task-specific design …
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Software architecture, path planning, and implementation for an autonomous robot
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1996.
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Generating Feasible Spawn Locations for Autonomous Robot Simulations in Complex Environments
… one of the main methods in the development of autonomous robots. With the application of physical simulations that closely represent real-world environments, the behavior of a robot in a variety of situations can be tested in a more efficient manner than performing experiments in reality. With …
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Design of autonomous robot device for accurate pacing of track athletes
… for products that encourage athletic activity. A robotic pacing device that facilitates running along a track was developed to help fulfill this requirement. The need for this device, determined from interviews and a survey of experienced running athletes and coaches, was found to be substantial …
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Vision -Based Behavior Learning and Automatic Scene Understanding by an Autonomous Robot
… called automatic scene understanding by a robot, in which the robot is taught to learn scene semantics from multiple concept categories via the interactions with its world. A generic model for general-purpose scene understanding is presented, along with a case development for small-sized …
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Design and control of an origami-enabled soft crawling autonomous robot (OSCAR)
Soft mobile robots offer unique benefits as they are highly adaptable to the terrain of travel and safe for interaction with humans. However, the lack of autonomy currently limits their practical applications. Autonomous navigation has been well studied for conventional rigid-bodied robots; …
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Robust agent control of an autonomous robot with many sensors and actuators
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.
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A Portable Approach to High-Level Behavioral Programming for Complex Autonomous Robot Applications
Research in mobile robotics, unmanned systems, and autonomous man-portable vehicles has grown rapidly over the last decade. This push has taken the problems of robot cognition and behavioral control out of the lab and into the field. Two good examples of this are the DARPA Urban Challenge …
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Wireless mosaic eyes based robot path planning and control. Autonomous robot navigation using environment intelligence with distributed vision sensors.
As an attempt to steer away from developing an autonomous robot with complex centralised intelligence, this thesis proposes an intelligent environment infrastructure where intelligences are distributed in the environment through collaborative vision sensors mounted in a physical architecture, …
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Autonomous Robotic Strategies for Urban Search and Rescue
This dissertation proposes autonomous robotic strategies for urban search and rescue (USAR) which are map-based semi-autonomous robot navigation and fully-autonomous robotic search, tracking, localization and mapping (STLAM) using a team of robots. Since the prerequisite for these solutions is …
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Programming using a constraint satisfaction system for robotics
Programming robots is a difficult task, especially for autonomous robots that must operate in an open, unstructured environment. A programmer building such a system should have a number of sophisticated tools at his/her disposal. In this thesis, we provide the basic framework for the development of …
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Landmine removal : technology review and design proposal as pertaining to humanitarian demining with a focus on locomotion across soft terrain
… to the technology review. The design is for an autonomous robot which is capable of working in conjunction with canine demining units, with further implications for the development of a robotic unit capable of landmine detection. Further investigation was done into the possible modes of robotic …
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Design of a mechanism to increase lateral force resistance of an autonomous ship hull cleaning robot
… we are developing Bio-Inspired HullCrawler -- an autonomous robot capable of cleaning ship hulls while a ship is underway. The novelty of our design centers on the bio-inspired suction cups that are cast as composite silicon elastomer. The purpose of this thesis is to look specifically at the …
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Persistent autonomous exploration, mapping and localization
… localization and mapping tasks for an autonomous mobile robot with battery constraints. First, we present modifications to baseline frontier exploration on an occupancy grid that makes the robot's frontier exploration more efficient. Second, we describe the new software structure and …
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Passive object recognition using intrinsic shape signatures
The Agile Robotics Group (AR) at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratories (CSAIL) has an autonomous, forklift capable of doing task planning, navigation, obstacle detection and avoidance, focused object detection, etc. The goal of the project is to have a completely …
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