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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Robotic platform"”.
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Robotic Platform for Internal Inspection
This thesis describes the design of a robotic inspection tool which is based on a differential track-drive platform. The robotic inspection tool is a one man-portable UGV that has been developed for the purpose of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and internal inspection of environments where human …
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Omnidirectional robotic platform : the control of an omnidirectional robotic platform for use in robot soccer
… via wireless communications. The robot soccer platform calls for the integration of electronic, mechanical and computer technologies and provides an exciting area for research. UCT first competed in the robot soccer competition in 2003, using differential drive robots designed by Graeme …
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A real-time robotic platform for pipeline inspection
… thesis details the continuing development of a robotic platform capable of actively maneuvering inside an in-service, potable-water pipe, for the purpose of providing continuous, autonomous, long-range inspection of a pipe network. Complete inspection of municipal water pipelines requires a …
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MeBot : A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence
… users to feel present at a distant location, telerobotics is a subfield of telepresence. Much work has been done in telerobotics through the years to provide safer working environments for people or to reach locations that would otherwise be inaccessible. More recently telerobots have been …
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Towards a Stable Three-Legged Under-Actuated Robotic Platform
The work seeks toward further developing a novel robotic platform capable of stable three legged locomotion. This will be accomplished by creating a robust and adaptable robotic platform capable of executing different walking strategies and taking multiple continuous steps. Previous iterations of …
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SCARAB : development of a rugged, low cost, inspection-class robotic platform
… design and development of a prototype of a new robotic platform designed to carry a variety of sensors into environments that are too dangerous or confined for human workers, and forms part of a series of three concurrent M.Sc(Eng) dissertations which will integrate into a complete system. …
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Development of a robotic platform for the exploration of hazardous environments
… and testing of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) robotic platform. Robotic pjatbrms such as these are typically used as Urban Search and Resue (USAR) platforms, as in the World Trade Tower collapses in 2001, however this platform was designed to be a general purpose platform with applications …
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Designing a simple, robust, precision robotic platform for medium quantity production
… the growing market of educational and research robotic platforms is the mechanically-simple, electronically-powerful research robot. Useful in fields such as algorithm and artificial intelligence research, such a robot would support a variety of sensor configurations and run both precisely and …
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Deep Learning-Based Visual Localisation and Navigation for the Voyager Mobile Robotic Platform
… stack implementation for the Voyager mobile robotic platform, which aims to solve a variation of the kidnapped robot problem. A convolutional neural network (CNN), specifically a fine-tuned ResNet-50 model, is trained for visual place recognition using images captured from the robot’s …
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Automated Execution and Optimization of Flow Chemistry on a Robotic Platform with Integrated Analytics
… automated, data-rich experimentation (DRE) platforms and methods designed to maximize the amount of useful data generated per unit time and raw material expended. In this thesis, a modular robotic platform for continuous flow synthesis was utilized for machine-assisted organic reaction …
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Design of the communication, power management and interchangeable sensor payload system for an inspection-class robotic platform
… is a requirement for a low-cost first-response robotic platform. UCT robotics is developing a platform to fulfil this requirement, with the Scarab (Figure 0-1) - a low-cost, man-packable, throwable inspection-class robotic platform with interchangeable payloads. The system was designed to create …
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Design and implementation of a six-degree of freedom robotic platform for measuring the forces of flying objects
… design and build a six-degree of freedom platform that measures the forces of flying animal robotics. The platform had to have an embedded force sensing mechanism and should be able to move in response to forces detected and measured. The platform had to measure the forces in six different …
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Development of a Mobility-Enabling Spinal Orthosis and Methods for Evaluating and Developing Spinal Orthoses on a Robotic Platform
… a scientific orthosis evaluation and development platform capable of producing orthoses with predictable effects on spinal loads. Research objectives were thus to a) develop an advanced robotic test platform (RTP) for the rapid development of spinal orthoses, b) use the RTP to evaluate a …
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Pipe Inspection Automation with Mobile Ground Vehicles
… this research is to develop a series of mobile robotics projects for inspection of infrastructure to release humans of dirty, dangerous and dull tasks and give them more time to think and to create. To achieve this, one should consider the design of two different elements which are essential for …
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Robotic radiation mapping using modelling and probabilistic analysis of sparse data
… radiation intensity maps, comprised of a mobile robotic platform and an integrated radiation model, is presented, and its ability to generate accurate radiation maps in simulation studies as well as real-life exposure scenarios are investigated. The radiation intensity mapping approach described …
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Design of a man-wearable control station for a robotic rescue system
… control station for the use of a low-cost robotic system in Urban Search and Rescue (USAR). The complete system, dubbed the "Scarab", is the 1st generation developed and built in the Robotics and Agents Research Laboratory (RARL) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and was a joint effort …
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Development of an Emulated Free-Floating Environment for On-Earth Testing of Space Robots
<p>The ability to perform experiments on space robotic systems within a laboratory setting is crucial to development and testing of satellites and space robots prior to launch. One of the most widely used techniques which recreate the on-orbit motion of space robots and targets is …
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Robot design for leak detection in water-pipe systems
… methods. This thesis is on the design of mobile robotic platform that carries the necessary sensor and travels inside the water pipe systems. To begin with, experiments were carried out to investigate the suitability of using acoustic sensor to detect the leaks and favorable results were …
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