The purpose of this paper is to present a mission design approach for a service mobile manipulator which is moving and manipulating objects in partly known indoor environments. The mobile manipulator is requested to pick up and place objects on predefined places (stations). The proposed approach...

For the cooling system of a mobile machine with m control variables and with n=m correction variables different control strategies have been investigated in order to minimize power to save energy and to reduce fan noise with sufficient cooling. The plant is nonlinear and not identified. Three...

The role of robots is becoming substantial for industrial applications and business competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to review robotic transformation concept and to investigate its business applications in the food industry. The robot transformation in food industry provided a...

The short history of service robots with its precursors is presented. The definitions of service robot are discussed with some statistical data. The history of service robots summarizes the ancient period with robot precursors, the middle ages and the period of industrial revolution. The...

In Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, one of the important issues is to design Human interface. There are two issues, one is the machine-centered interaction design to adapt humans for operating the robots or systems. Another one is the human-centered interaction design to make it adaptable...

The dimension synthesis problem for parallel robots in general is much more complex than their serial counterparts, due to the strong dependence of geometric parameters and their performances. In dimension synthesis for robots, typical performance characteristics that may be considered to...

In the recent years, many researchers have shown interest in developing search and rescue system composed of one or multiple robots, which have the mission of finding victims and identifying the potential hazards. To enhance the robotic systems there is a growing trend of integrating wireless...

While some are reluctant to admit it, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in the way that advanced militaries conduct their core business of fighting. Increasingly autonomous ‘unmanned' systems are taking on the ‘dull, dirty and dangerous' roles in the military, leaving human war fighters...

This is the second paper of two on the role of autonomy in the unmanned systems revolution currently underway and affecting military forces around the globe. In the last paper, the authors considered the implications of autonomy on the legal obligations of military forces and their ability to...