关键词： 教育机器人   创新能力提升  

摘要： 教育机器人是将智力因素和非智力因素高度融合的学习载体之一，笔者以参加第十四届全国中小学信息技术创新与实践活动（简称NOC活动）中的“网络机器人野外生存”赛项为切入点，结合对教育机器人的学习经验，分享了学习感受与心得，以期能够激励更多的学生利用教育机器人提升自身的综合实践能力和创新能力。

关键词： 教学竞赛   中小学   湖南省   机器人   成功   省教育学会   天心区   长沙市  

摘要： 本刊讯2016年11月23-25日，湖南省首届中小学机器人教学竞赛在长沙市天心区青园小学圆满落幕。本次大赛由湖南省教育学会主办，长沙市天心区青园小学协办。

关键词： 混沌神经动力学   机器人手臂   病态问题   神经编码  

摘要： 把高维的混沌神经动力学行为应用到多但有限自由度的机器人以实现适应性控制是一个困难的问题;借鉴大量神经元控制少数肌肉的生物事实,一种简单的神经编码方法被用来使高维的神经网络模式转化成了低维的运动参数;虽然只在神经网络中嵌入了3种简单的姿势动作,但是在混沌神经动力学行为出现时,机器人手臂呈现出复杂的组合运动;利用这一点,提出了一个简单的控制算法用来解决病态问题(不一定有解或者确定的解无法保证的问题);实装实验进一步表明,尽管只有粗略甚至不确定的光源信息,利用提出的控制算法,机器人手臂可以成功的寻找到光源。

关键词： 工程师   学会   电子   电气   人工智能   机器人学   智能控制   中南大学  

摘要： 近日．中南大学蔡自兴教授当选电气和电子工程师学会会士。蔡自兴是我国人工智能、智能控制和智能机器人学科领域的开拓者和带头人，湖南省自兴人工智能研究院首席科学家。他数十载如一日地耕耘在智能科学技术基础研究、科技开发和教学的第一线，建立了我国人工智能、智能控制、机器人学三学科交叉融合的理论体系。

关键词： Critical illness   Mathematical thinking   Robotics   Technology  

摘要： A 14-year-old child with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia participated in 52 weeks of robotics task-based interviews. We present 3 of her tasks from Weeks 1, 20, and 46 along with an overview of the complete 52 weeks. We compare the data from the tasks to Brousseau's (1997) Theory of Didactical Situations of Mathematics to answer our research questions: Can robotics play support the devolution of a fundamental situation to an adidactic situation of mathematics for children who are critically ill? When children with critical illness engage in robotics play, what are the key features of the robotics phenomenon that support devolution to an adidactic situation? We found evidence of the robotics supporting the devolution of a fundamental situation to an adidactic situation of mathematics in each robotics task and evidence of 4 key features (thick authenticity, feedback enabling autonomy, connectivity, and competence) of robotics play that support this devolution.

关键词： Robotics   stroke   rehabilitation   sensory   motor  

摘要： Two decades of research on robots and upper extremity rehabilitation has resulted in recommendations from systematic reviews and guidelines on their use in stroke. Robotics are often cited for their ability to encourage mass practice as a means to enhance recovery of movement. Yet, stroke recovery is a complex process occurring across many aspects of neurologic function beyond movement. As newer devices are developed and enhanced assessments are integrated into treatment protocols, the potential of robotics to advance rehabilitation will continue to grow.

关键词： Social robotics   Experimental approach, psychology   Foundational and applied research   Measurement  

摘要： Why should an experimental psychologist bother entering a relatively novel field like social robotics and how could the scientific community in social robotics potentially gain from this? This paper highlights the theoretical and practical gains and challenges associated with an interdisciplinary approach when addressing current research questions in human-machine interaction, with a particular focus on social robotics. Three core issues are discussed from an experimental social psychological perspective: First, this paper focuses on the importance of a scientific, theory-driven approach to test causal relationships between key constructs of interest in the domain of human-machine interaction;second, it addresses the need for advancement in the realm of measurement, e.g., in terms of validity. To illustrate, this paper provides an overview of the author's own research in the domain of human-robot interaction in which we have tried to live up to the aforementioned desiderata. Finally, following common Research-Development practice, we argue for bridging the gap between foundational and applied research by testing the validity of the theoretical assumptions and the robustness of our technical platforms in real-world human machine interaction settings. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

关键词： Parallel robot   Inverse dynamics   Singularity   Removable singularity  

摘要： It is commonly claimed in the literature that if the dynamic equations are made consistent at a type II singular configuration, then a parallel robot can pass through this configuration while the actuator forces remain bounded. However, in contrast to the existing literature, the present paper proves that the consistency of the dynamic model is not sufficient alone within this context, and derives the additional necessary conditions for this purpose. It is then shown that under these new conditions, type II singularities of parallel manipulators can be removed to guarantee finite and continuous inverse dynamics solutions while fully utilizing the workspace. These are achieved through a novel analysis of type II singularities of parallel robots based on the limit concept. Another contribution of the paper is the proposal for definitions of natural and actual orders of type II singularities.

关键词： Service robots   Technology assessment   Aggregate production function   Labor substitution   Labor complementarity  

摘要： Since the beginning of robotics, the substitution of human labor has been one of the crucial issues. The focus is on the economic perspective, asking how robotics affects the labor market, and on changes in the work processes of human workers. While there are already some lessons learnt from industrial robotics, the area of service robots hag been analyzed to a much lesser extent. First insights into these aspects are of utmost relevance to technology assessment providing policy advice. As conclusions for service robots in general cannot be drawn, we identify criteria for the ex-ante evaluation of service robots in concrete application areas. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.