Assessing limited visibility feedback for overhead manufacturing assembly tasks

Supernumerary Robotic Limbs for Human Augmentation in Overhead Assembly Tasks

Mobile Manipulator Performance Measurement Towards Manufacturing Assembly Tasks

Mobile manipulator performance measurement research is relatively minimal as compared to that of robot arms. Measurement methods, such as optical tracking systems, are useful for measuring the performance of mobile manipulators, although at a much higher relative cost as compared to artifacts. The concept of using test artifacts demonstrates to potential manufacturers and users of mobile manipu...

Assessing Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Women Workers in an Automobile Manufacturing Assembly Line

Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) may involve all parts of the body, and have been a worldwide problem. Employed women are two to five times more likely to report such problems, and assembly lines suspected to induce more WMSDs because of high rate of repetitive motions. Methods: The aim of this study to determine the prevalence of WMSDs in women workers of an automobi...

Approximate Shortest Routes for Frontier Visibility under Limited Visibility

Consider a simple polygon P and a point s on the frontier ∂P of P . For any real δ > 0 there exists a shortest path ρ inside of P such that s is on the path ρ, and for each point p in ∂P , there exists a point q in ρ at Euclidean distance less than or equal δ to p such that the line segment pq is in P . Such an optimum path ρ is called a shortest route for ∂P visibility under δ-visibility that ...

Learning with Limited Visibility

This paper surveys recent studies of learning problems in which the learner faces restrictions on the amount of information he can extract from each example he encounters. Our main framework for the analysis of such scenarios is the RFA (Restricted Focus of Attention) model. While being a natural reenement of the PAC learning model, some of the fundamental PAC-learning results and techniques fa...