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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Autonomous Robotics"”.
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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robotics
Technological advancements in autonomous robotics, including autonomous vehicles, have created new opportunities for innovative solutions to many everyday challenges. The impact of integrating robotic agents into real-world applications may be significantly enhanced by leveraging advancements in …
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Synesthetic Sensor Fusion via a Cross-Wired Artificial Neural Network.
… study was derived from the study of psychology, robotics, and artificial neural networks, with perceivable application in the domain of mobile autonomous robotics where sensor fusion is a current research topic. This model of synesthetic sensor fusion does not exhibit synesthetic responses. …
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Assessing High Dynamic Range Imagery Performance for Object Detection in Maritime Environments
<p>The field of autonomous robotics has benefited from the implementation of convolutional neural networks in vision-based situational awareness. These strategies help identify surface obstacles and nearby vessels. This study proposes the introduction of high dynamic range cameras on autonomous …
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Robotic control: real-time architectures and multi-flock flocking
Autonomous robotics has become a popular research topic in the recent years. This dissertation deals with two areas of autonomous robotic research. The first area covered is mobile robot control architectures. The second area covered is robot flocking. The dissertation first asks the question: …
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Performance evaluation of deep learning on smartphones
… of applications from self driving cars and autonomous robotics to web search and voice assistants. It is fair to say that it is omnipresent and here to stay. It is deployed in all sorts of devices ranging from consumer electronics to Internet of Things (IoT). Such a deployment is categorized …
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Affordance-based control of a variable-autonomy telerobot
… currently realizable only in narrow domains of robotics-like mapping an environment. Tedious teleoperation/joystick control is typical in military applications, like complex manipulation and navigation with bomb-disposal robots. This thesis describes a robot "surrogate" with an intermediate and …
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Fabrication and Application of a Polymer Neuromorphic Circuitry Based on Polymer Memristive Devices and Polymer Transistors
… such as machine learning and perception, autonomous robotics and generic artificial intelligence.</p> <p>This doctoral dissertation presents work performed fabricating a previously developed type of polymer neuromorphic architecture, termed Polymer Neuromorphic Circuitry (PNC), inspired by …
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Modeling Autonomous Agents' Behavior Using Neuro-Immune Networks
Autonomous robots are expected to interact with their dynamic changing environment. This interactions requires certain level of behavior based Intelligence, which facilitates the dynamic adaptation of the robot behavior accordingly with his surrounding environment. Many researches have been done in …
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Visual Place Recognition for Autonomous Robots
Autonomous robotics has been the subject of great interest within the research community over the past few decades. Its applications are wide-spread, ranging from health-care to manufacturing, goods transportation to home deliveries, site-maintenance to construction, planetary explorations to …
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Material Detection with Thermal Imaging and Computer Vision: Potentials and Limitations
… could be used in manufacturing, recycling or autonomous robotics. For my research, the application that will be focused on is using this material detection to control a servo motor by identifying and sending control inputs based on the material in an image. My thesis is driven by the following …
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Localization Performance Improvement of a Low-Resolution Robotic System using an Electro-Permanent Magnetic Interface and an Ensemble Kalman Filter
… environment, demonstrating the robustness of autonomous assembly and capabilities of robotic manipulators is necessary. Current robotic assembly on Earth consists mainly of inspection or highly controlled environments, and always with a human in the loop to step in and fix issues if a problem …
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Towards Improving and Extending Traditional Robot Autonomy with Human Guided Machine Learning
… to reach reasonable performance. As a result, autonomous systems still rely on human operators to play a supervisory role to ensure that robotic operations are completed quickly and successfully. The presented work aims to improve the traditional methods of robot autonomy by developing an …