Diese Arbeit präsentiert den intelligenten Gehhilferoboter Care-O-bot. CareO-bot ist der Prototyp eines multifunktionalen Heimund Pflegeassistenten, konzipiert zur Benutzung von älteren Personen. Der Roboter soll es diesen Personen ermöglichen, trotz verschiedener Gebrechen weiterhin eigenständig in ihrer heimischen Umgebung wohnen zu können. Um den Umgang mit der intelligenten Gehhilfe möglich...

Epithelial borderline ovarian tumors (BOT) are distinctive from benign tumors and carcinoma. They occur in younger women more often than carcinoma, and there is some difficulty making correct diagnosis of BOT. Two subtypes of BOT, serous and mucinous borderline tumor have different characteristics and very different clinical behavior. Serous borderline tumor (SBT) with micropapillary pattern sh...

Borderline epithelial ovarian tumours (BOT) represent 15-20% of all non-benign ovarian epithelial neoplasms. Compared to malignant ovarian tumours, they usually present at a younger age and carry a far superior prognosis. Fertility-conserving surgery is an important treatment option for patients with BOT. Ultrasound and CT are both widely available and play roles in the initial investigation an...

Data mining applications are composed of computing-intensive processing tasks, which are natural candidates for execution on high performance, high throughput platforms such as PC clusters and computational grids. Besides, some data-mining algorithms can be implemented as Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications, which are composed of parallel, independent tasks. Due to its own nature, the adaptation of...

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In this paper Care-O-bot 3 is introduced, which is designed as a prototype for a household robot. In contrast to merely technology driven service robot developments, many considerations on embodiment were conducted. In particular, Care-O-bot 3 excels in its user-interaction oriented design. Nevertheless, it is equipped with leading edge technology, which is highly integrated into a very compact...

Traditionally, the programming of bot behaviors for commercial computer games applies rule-based approaches. But even complex or fuzzyfied automatons cannot really challenge experienced players. This contribution examines whether bot programming can be treated as a pattern recognition problem and whether behaviors can be learned from recorded games. First, we sketch a technical computing interf...

A robotics-based freshman immigration course into Computer Systems Engineering (CSE) was created to introduce students to the main design issues in CSE: multi-controller programming, sensor interfacing, servo actuation and serial communications. The instructional materials were designed around 3 projects: car bot in maze, GERWALK bot penalty kick, and GERWALK bot going up stair steps. Selected ...

In this paper, we introduce a self-assembling and self-organizing artifact, called a swarm-bot, composed of a swarm of s-bots, mobile robots with the ability to connect to and to disconnect from each other. We discuss the challenges involved in controlling a swarm-bot and address the problem of synthesizing controllers for the swarm-bot using artificial evolution. Specifically, we study aggrega...

In this talk I present recent research in swarm robotics, the discipline that studies robotic systems composed of swarms of robots tightly interacting and cooperating to reach their goals. In particular, I will present a new type of robot, called swarm-bot, and the results of a number of experiments run with it. A swarm-bot [4,7] is an artifact composed of a swarm of assembled s-bots. The s-bot...