关键词： Upstream Oil & Gas   underwater vehicle   AUV   machine learning   platform   vehicle   sensor   Offshore Technology Conference   autonomous system   Artificial Intelligence   Artificial intelligence   Information Management and Systems  

摘要： This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper OTC 29069, “How AI and Robotics Can Support Marine Mining,” by Peter Kampman, Leif Christensen, Martin Fritsche, Christopher Gaudig, Hendrik Hanff, and Marc Hildrebrandt, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and Frank Kirchner, DFKI and University of Bremen, prepared for the 2018 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 30 April-4 May. The paper has not been peer reviewed. Copyright 2018 Offshore Technology Conference. Reproduced by permission. Marine mining initiatives open a new field of subsea operations. Offshore oil and gas sites are still located primarily in areas where divers can support maintenance and repair requirements, but future marine mining will take place in greater depths and with a complexity of machines that requires support from robotic systems equipped with a substantial amount of artificial intelligence (AI). Technologies are being developed that have the potential to support marine mining in all stages from prospection to decommissioning. These developments will likely have substantial influence in the oil and gas industry, itself searching for ways to maximize exploitation of assets. Robotic Systems Under Current Development Increasing Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Intelligence. Commercial off-the-shelf AUVs rely mostly on acoustic and inertial sensors for their navigation. Speed measurements from a Doppler velocity log are combined with orientation values from gyroscopes and accelerometers to estimate current position. These updates are sometimes augmented by absolute-position fixes from an ultrashort baseline system. However, during such a mission, the inspection assets might not be located exactly at their expected positions. This might be because of incorrect positioning during installation, objects being dragged off location by fishermen, or sediments hiding a pipeline gradually from the view of standard sensors. Ther

关键词： Legged robot   Open Dynamics Engine   Stabilization algorithm   Model based control  

摘要： Legged locomotion systems, especially anthropomorphic mechanisms, can be modeled by using highly complex dynamic structures. In order to model these complex dynamic structures, some assumptions must be made, such as no-friction, rigid links or non-redundancy. However, with the dynamic simulators developed in recent years, it has become possible to create dynamic models without making any assumptions. In this study, a posture control algorithm was developed to automatically balance a six-legged mobile robot against external dynamic effects such as incline or contact polygon changes. A model-based control structure is preferred in order to implement the posture control algorithm to the robot control. The reference model used in model-based control was created using the ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) physics simulator. The reference model created on the ODE is always in communication with the IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) sensor connected to the robot's body. For this reason, all the dynamic effects including externally applied forces to the real robot can be considered in the control process without making any assumptions. Consequently, real-time application results of the six-legged mobile robot on a moving platform are observed and the results have shown better performance as depicted on graphs.

关键词： Anthropomorphism   Social robotics   Industry 4.0   Cyber-physical-systems   Lightweight robotics   Collaboration   Human-machine interaction   Personality   Problem solving behavior  

摘要： New forms of artificial intelligence on the one hand and the ubiquitous networking of "everything with everything" on the other hand characterize the fourth industrial revolution. This results in a changed understanding of human-machine interaction, in new models for production, in which man and machine together with virtual agents form hybrid teams. The empirical study "Socializing with robots" aims to gain insight especially into conditions of development and processes of hybrid human-machine teams. In the experiment, human-robot actions and interactions were closely observed in a virtual environment. Robots as partners differed in shape and behavior (reliable or faulty). Participants were instructed to achieve an objective that could only be achieved via close teamwork. This paper unites different aspects from core disciplines of social robotics and psychology contributing to anthropomorphization with the empirical insights of the experiment. It focuses on the psychological effects (e.g. reactions of different personality types) on anthropomorphization and mechanization, taking the inter- and transdisciplinary field of social robotics as a starting point.

关键词： Automation   Robotics   Manufacturing industries   Rate of return   Computer simulation  

摘要： The article discusses the importance of automation and robotics in the manufacturing industry. Topics discussed include production of parts by high-mix plant using different processes, such as computer numerical control (CNC) machining, and visual inspection, getting high rate of return by implementing automation, and use of robots-as-a-platform for increasing industrial productivity.

关键词： Robotics   Industrial efficiency   Electronic commerce   Business models   Automation  

摘要： The article discusses why fulfilment efficiency requires an integrated approach that goes beyond investment in robotics. Topics include development of technologies by e-commerce that can help them manage their scale and business models, role of automation and integrated software in efficiency, and reduced price of robotic components.

关键词： 3D object detection and pose estimation   assistive robotics   eye-tracking   human-computer interface  

摘要： Assistive technologies help all persons with disabilities to improve their accessibility in all aspects of their life. The AIDE European project contributes to the improvement of current assistive technologies by developing and testing a modular and adaptive multimodal interface customizable to the individual needs of people with disabilities. This paper describes the computer vision algorithms part of the multimodal interface developed inside the AIDE European project. The main contribution of this computer vision part is the integration with the robotic system and with the other sensory systems (electrooculography (EOG) and electroencephalography (EEG)). The technical achievements solved herein are the algorithm for the selection of objects using the gaze, and especially the state-of-the-art algorithm for the efficient detection and pose estimation of textureless objects. These algorithms were tested in real conditions, and were thoroughly evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively. The experimental results of the object selection algorithm were excellent (object selection over 90%) in less than 12 s. The detection and pose estimation algorithms evaluated using the LINEMOD database were similar to the state-of-the-art method, and were the most computationally efficient.

关键词： Gene therapy   Drug stores   Manufacturing   Pharmacy   Beverage industry   Advantages   Flexibility   Robots   Design   Recipes   Automation   Robotics  

摘要： [...]robotic systems are agile and change quickly between vial, syringe, and cartridge formats. [...]robots allow the design of gloveless isolators. Contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies announced in a 23 May 2018 press release that it was investing in the SA25 Aseptic Filling Workcell gloveless isolator technology as it expanded its gene therapy and viral vaccine fill/ finish capabilities to provide services in support of late-phase candidates and commercial supply (1).

关键词： Innovations   Autonomous underwater vehicles   Researchers   Collaboration   Research & development--R&D   Robotics  

关键词： Robot kinematics   Robot sensing systems   Special issues and sections   Trajectory   Unmanned aerial vehicles  

摘要： An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including recent advances in aerial swarm robotics, trajectory optimization for aerial robots or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and a distributed formation control algorithm for a group of aerial robots.

关键词： Programming languages (Electronic computers)   Robotics -- Competitions   Mentors   Engineering schools