关键词： 机器人竞赛   中小学   青岛市   实录   智能机器人   三一学院   模拟分析   超声波  

摘要： 智能机器人灭火比赛最早是由美国三一学院的一批国际著名机器人学家发起创办的，比赛要求参赛机器人按照预先编排好的程序。通过传感器和超声波等探测设备对周围环境进行模拟分析、搜索，

关键词： 知识竞赛   省科协   作品创作   青少年学生   文化卫生   科学技术协会   人才计划   科学技术厅   基础研究工作   机器人竞赛  

摘要： 5月14日,由贵州省科技厅、省委宣传部、省科协、贵阳市人民政府共同举办的2016年贵州省科技活动周启动仪式暨广场大型科普宣传活动在贵阳市筑城广场举行。 此次科技活动周活动围绕＂创新引领共享发展＂主题,组织开展/启动了丰富多彩的系列活动：科技文化卫生＂三下乡＂,贵州省第三届青少年科普知识竞赛、贵州省第五届科普作品创作大赛等科普大赛,

关键词： Framework   Harvest robots   Visual servo control   ROS   SLAM  

摘要： A modular software framework design that allows flexible implementation of eye-in-hand sensing and motion control for agricultural robotics in dense vegetation is reported. Harvesting robots in cultivars with dense vegetation require multiple viewpoints and on-line trajectory adjustments in order to reduce the amount of false negatives and correct for fruit movement. In contrast to specialised software, the framework proposed aims to support a wide variety of agricultural use cases, hardware and extensions. A set of Robotic Operating System (ROS) nodes was created to ensure modularity and separation of concems, implementing functionalities for application control, robot motion control, image acquisition, fruit detection, visual servo control and simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for monocular relative depth estimation and scene reconstruction. Coordination functionality was implemented by the application control node with a finite state machine. In order to provide visual servo control and simultaneous localisation and mapping functionalities, off-the-shelf libraries Visual Servoing Platform library (ViSP) and Large Scale Direct SLAM (LSD-SLAM) were wrapped in ROS nodes. The capabilities of the framework are demonstrated by an example implementation for use with a sweet-pepper crop, combined with hardware consisting of a Baxter robot and a colour camera placed on its end-effector. Qualitative tests were performed under laboratory conditions using an artificial dense vegetation sweet-pepper crop. Results indicated the framework can be implemented for sensing and robot motion control in sweet-pepper using visual information from the end-effector. Future research to apply the framework to other use-cases and validate the performance of its components in servo applications under real greenhouse conditions is suggested. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IAgrE.

关键词： ROBOTICS conferences   LONDON (England) -- Social conditions -- 21st century  

摘要： The article offers information on the UK Robotics Week to be held in London, England on June 25 to July 1, 2016.

关键词： Robots and law   Autonomous vehicles and law   Healthcare robots and law   Data protection issues in robotics   Intellectual property issues in robotics   Consumer protection issues in robotics   Robotics and commercial contracting  

摘要： In this edition, we explore some of the legal, regulatory and ethical implications of robots and robotic systems and applications. We begin by giving our view of why this emerging technology will become increasingly prevalent and why it is important that lawyers and regulators play an important role in its development. We go on to address the key legal, regulatory and ethical issues in respect of specific types of robotics, including automated vehicles and healthcare robots. We also focus on the impact that robotics will have on core legal practice areas, including data protection, intellectual property, consumer protection and commercial contracting. Our objective is to identify the key legal and regulatory implications of robotics, and to start a dialogue about how our existing legal framework might need to adapt and change to meet the demands of the robotics age. In the next edition, we will continue our focus on key legal issues in respect of different types of robotics and core legal practice areas relevant to the discussion. (C) 2016 Bristows LLP. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

关键词： Robot navigation   QR code   AR tag   Cloud robotics  

摘要： In the future, social robots will permeate our daily life. An autonomous robot that has to move among different buildings needs to manage huge amount of data, as a consequence it is clear that the configuration of the navigation system becomes hard to manage. This paper presents a system, based on a cloud robotics paradigm, conceived to allow autonomous robots to navigate in indoor environment, which are not known a priori. The environment is divided into sub-maps and all the necessary information and the topological representation of the world, are stored into a remote cloud infrastructure. By means of specific environmental tags, composed of a set of ARTags and QR codes, the robot gets the access to the cloud service and it is able to update its navigation configuration in a dynamic and automatic way. Experiments have been conducted in order to choose an appropriate marker dimension and to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed procedure.

关键词： Robotics  

摘要： Over the past few decades, the centuries-old art of origami and the centuries-old practice of engineering have been mixing in ways that have proven to be both fruitful and surprising, resulting in structures and mechanisms that fold, deploy, and transform. While the term “origami” captures the general sense of these forms, it should be interpreted broadly, as folding, in which multiple components rotate with respect to one another around reasonably well-defined axes of rotation: the “folds.” Unlike traditional origami (mostly paper), origami mechanisms are made from the materials of engineering: metals, polymers, plastics, and exotics, such as carbon fiber. The user of such mechanisms in the engineering domain requires the exploration of properties and parameters not considered in traditional origami: kinematics, effects of thickness and bending, stresses and strains, and methods of actuation far more sophisticated than the hands of a craftsman. This special issue...

关键词： Cloud robotics   AAL   Location based services  

摘要： Technological innovation in robotics and ICT represents an effective solution to tackle the challenge of providing social sustainable care services for the ageing population. The recent introduction of cloud technologies is opening new opportunities for the provisioning of advanced robotic services based on the cooperation of a number of connected robots, smart environments and devices improved by the huge cloud computational and storage capability. In this context, this paper aims to investigate and assess the potentialities of a cloud robotic system for the provisioning of assistive services for the promotion of active and healthy ageing. The system comprised two different smart environments, located in Italy and Sweden, where a service robot is connected to a cloud platform for the provisioning of localization based services to the users. The cloud robotic services were tested in the two realistic environments to assess the general feasibility of the solution and demonstrate the ability to provide assistive location based services in a multiple environment framework. The results confirmed the validity of the solution but also suggested a deeper investigation on the dependability of the communication technologies adopted in such kind of systems.

关键词： Active   healthy aging   robotics