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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Robotics--Research."”.
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Integrated vision framework for a robotics research and development platform
… design of a vision framework integrated into a robotics research and development platform. The vision system was implemented as part of the software platform developed by the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. Featuring representations for images and camera sensors, this system provides …
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The Creation of a low-cost, reliable platform for mobile robotics research
… and integration of a low-cost robot designed for research on the problem of life-long robot mapping. The robotics platform used is the iRobot Create. This robot also employs the PrimeSensor, a sensor with the ability to provide a pixel-matched, colored depth field in real time. This sensor was …
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Expanding the Capabilities of Dynamic Robotic Systems
For robotics research to reach its full potential the hardware platforms we use will have to be pushed to the physical limits. Building systems that can reach these limits and that are robust and reliable requires careful engineering optimization across the entire design process. This thesis …
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Object-Centric Planning for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation and Navigation
A primary objective within the robotics research community is the development of robotic agents capable of executing long-horizon tasks within complex and novel environments. The sparse and factored nature of object-centric planning makes it a good candidate for the reasoning engine inside such an …
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Producing Humans: An Anthropology of Social and Cognitive Robots
… this thesis, I ask how the human is produced in robotics research, focussing specifically on the work that is done to create humanoid robots that exhibit social and intelligent behaviour. Robots, like other technologies, are often presented as the result of the systematic application of …
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Adaptive swing-up and balancing control of acrobot systems
The field of underactuated robotics has become the core of agile mobile robotics research. Significant past effort has been put into understanding the swing-up control of the acrobot system. This thesis implements an online, adaptive swing-up and balancing controller with no previous knowledge of …
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Underwater & out of sight: towards ubiquity in underwater robotics
… its mysteries; and progress in underwater robotics research over the past three decades has resulted in vehicles that can navigate reliably and operate consistently, providing oceanographers with an additional tool for studying the ocean. Unfortunately, the high cost of these vehicles has …
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Robotic Platform for Internal Inspection
… The platform is a versatile device for mobile robotics research and development that supports a wide variety of instrumentation and payloads. Variable height control of the payload is achieved with a scissor lift assembly that provides accurate positioning of equipped sensors and …
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Underwater & out of sight : towards ubiquity in underwater robotics
… its mysteries; and progress in underwater robotics research over the past three decades has resulted in vehicles that can navigate reliably and operate consistently, providing oceanographers with an additional tool for studying the ocean. Unfortunately, the high cost of these vehicles has …
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Indexical grounding for a mobile robot
We have outfitted a mobile research robot with several sensors and algorithms designed to facilitate small- and large-scale navigation and natural language interaction. We begin with a parser using a large, hand-crafted English grammar and lexicon. We then add a standard gradient navigation …
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Generalizable Robot Manipulation through Unified Perception, Policy Learning, and Planning
… and embodiments is a critical challenge in robotics research. While the availability of data and large-scale training has brought exciting progress in robotics manipulation, current methods often struggle with generalizing to unseen, unstructured environments and solving long-horizon tasks. …
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Modeling, analysis, and measurement of passenger vehicle stability
… injuries each year. Previous automotive research has studied ways for detecting and mitigating rollover on flat ground at high speed, and robotics research has studied the rollover stability of robots on rough terrain at low speed. Accident statistics show, however, that over 80% of …
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Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn in Long-Horizon Robotics Tasks
A longstanding goal of robotics research has been to produce a single agent capable of solving a variety of useful long-horizon tasks, such as making a cup of tea or tidying up a living room, in multiple different environments (i.e., in any household). In recent years, two dominant paradigms have …
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The control of semi-autonomous robots
Robotic soccer is an international area of research which involves multiple robots collaborating in an adversarial and dynamic environment. Although many different forms gf robotic soccer are played, the University of Cape Town (UCT) chose the RoboCup small» sized robot league, officially known as …
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System Dynamics Analysis of the Growth and Management of a Graduate Robotics Lab
In November of 2012, a robotics research laboratory at a southeastern university began to work on a multi-million dollar robotics project to participate in a national level robotics competition. This project was led by a robotics lab referred to as the Southeastern Robotics Lab (SRL) in this …
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A Review of Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand Technology and Data Glove Based Control
… has been a highly popular sub-discipline in robotics research. Because the human hand is an extremely sophisticated system, both in its mechanical and sensory abilities, engineers have been fascinated with replicating these abilities in artificial systems. The applications of robotic hands …
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Semi-Dense Stereo Reconstruction from Aerial Imagery for Improved Obstacle Detection
… has been a significant subject matter of robotics research for decades but has accelerated in recent years as both technology and community are more prepared to take on new challenges with autonomous systems. In this thesis, a framework for 3D reconstruction using a stereo camera for the …
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Continual Learning for Affective Robotics
… interaction forms the central focus of affective robotics research. Current Machine Learning (ML)-based solutions for realising affective capabilities in robots, be it robust affect perception or behaviour generation, are primed towards generalisation of application. Pre-trained on volumes of …
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Dirbtinio intelekto ir kompiuterinės regos algoritmų taikymas stalo futbolo žaidime /
… for artificial intelligence, computer vision and robotics research, because you have to pick a strategy to be able to score against your opponent, you have to be able to see the position of the ball and players and you have to be able to adjust your players as quickly as possible. Our main goal is …
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Roboter-Fußball: Perzeption, Deliberation und Aktion autonomer Systeme in dynamischen Umgebungen
… und dem Technology Transfer Award des European Robotics Research Network (EURON) ausgezeichnet.
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