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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"autonomous robots"”.
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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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The control of semi-autonomous robots
… 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 the F180 RoboSoccer …
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Cooperative Prediction and Planning Under Uncertainty for Autonomous Robots
Autonomous robots are set to become ubiquitous in the future, with applications ranging from autonomous cars to assistive household robots. These systems must operate in close proximity of dynamic and static objects, including humans and other non-autonomous systems, adding complexity to their …
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A Safety-Performance Framework for Computational Awareness in Autonomous Robots
… and performance-critical computational tasks for autonomous robots, operating in unknown and unstructured environments with complex objectives under strict computational and power constraints. Our primary contribution is a novel safety-performance (SP) metric that emphasizes on safety while …
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Enhancing Autonomous Robots in the AEC Industry using Foundation Models
… for a persistent trust between people and robots. Yet much of today's practice still depends on robots that only automates one specific task and situation, partially manual safety inspections, and lack of understanding of the fact that trust between human and robot is changing dynamically, …
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Towards Safety-Assured Environments of Autonomous Robots via Intent Expressive Autonomy
… expressive autonomy. Intent expression between robots and humans is crucial for developing autonomous robots and will enhance human safety. Our research investigated intent expressive autonomy with autonomous-vehicle-to-pedestrian and autonomous-vehicle-to-bicyclist feedback displays. We studied …
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Neuromodulation Based Control of Autonomous Robots on a Cloud Computing Platform
… neuromodulation and its implementation on autonomous robots in the open-source, open-access environment of robot operating system (ROS). A spiking neural network (SNN) is used to model the neuromodulatory function for generating context based behavioral responses of the robots to sensory …
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WhatWhen2Ask: Cost-Aware LLM Querying for Autonomous Robots in Uncertain Environments
Autonomous agents operating in real-world environments must make decisions under uncertainty, facing challenges such as partial observability, sparse rewards, and long-horizon planning. While reinforcement learning (RL) enables agents to learn from experience, standard policies often struggle to …
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Drivable region detection for autonomous robots applied to South African underground mining
This dissertation focuses on enhancing autonomous robots' capability to identify drivable regions in underground terrains. A system model that compares the drivability analysis of underground terrains using the entropy model and statistical region merging (SRM) was developed, with a view to …
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Decentralization and Hierarchical Organization for Control of Adaptive and Cognitive Behavior in Autonomous Robots
Cognition—understood as a form of planning ahead—complements adaptive behavior. It leverages knowledge about performing a specific behavior into a novel context while minimizing any harm to the behaving system itself as it is using an internal simulation to predict possible outcomes. In this …
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Regulation on Safety and civil Liability of intelligent autonomous Robots: the case of smart Cars
… us artificial intelligence (AI) “embodied” in robots. They are able to self-learn, self-organize and self-reproduce, thanks to genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks and other tools. The focus of this research includes results from the diffusion of a social phenomenon consisting in the …
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Design and Development of Intelligent Navigation Control Systems for Autonomous Robots that Uses Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Techniques and Fpga For Its Implementation
… Logic (FL), that are used to control the same autonomous mobile robot platform navigating a real unknown indoor environment that contains simple geometric-shaped static objects to reach a goal in an unspecified location. In particular, the study presents and compares the design, simulation, …
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An educational tool to assist students in the evaluation of object avoidance algorithms
Autonomous robots are becoming a part of everyday life. One difficulty in the creation of autonomous robots is having the robots avoid objects. In particular once one has chosen an algorithm difficulty arises in perfecting the parameters involved. Presented here is an implementation of an algorithm …
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Optimal temporal planning at reactive time scales via dynamic backtracking branch and bound
Autonomous robots are being considered for increasingly capable roles in our society, such as urban search and rescue, automation for assisted living, and lunar habitat construction. To fulfill these roles, teams of autonomous robots will need to cooperate together to accomplish complex mission …
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Managing temporal uncertainty under limited communication : a formal model of tight and loose team coordination
In the future, groups of autonomous robots will cooperate in large networks in order to achieve a common goal. These multi-agent systems will need to be able to execute cooperative temporal plans in the presence of temporal uncertainty and communication limitations. The duration of many planned …
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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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Análisis y diseño de sistemas cognitivos para robots autónomos
Los robots autónomos están jugando un papel muy importante en la sociedad actual. Pueden servir a las personas proporcionando ayuda en el hogar, hospitales, empresas y entornos industriales, además de la realización de misiones espaciales de manera autónoma e “inteligente” mediante la incorporación …
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3D Spatial Perception with Real-Time Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM
… that environment. This ability is essential for autonomous robots to navigate and interact with their surroundings, since it enables robots to perform a wide variety of tasks, such as obstacle avoidance, path planning, and object manipulation. To provide robots with a detailed and accurate …
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Efficient Connectivity Maintenance For Distributed Robotic Systems
Teams of multiple autonomous robots have the potential to improve upon many robotic tasks performed by individuals. As these robots move about, they must maintain connectivity through direct links or multi-hop paths in order to exchange useful information for the completion of collaborative tasks …
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