In this paper I will describe Polly, a low cost visionbased robot that gives primitive tours. The system is very simple, robust and efficient, and runs on a hardware platform which could be duplicated for less than $lOK US. The system was built to explore how knowledge about the structure the environment can be used in a principled way to simplify both visual and motor processing. I will argue ...

In this paper I will describe Polly, a low cost vision-based robot that gives primitive tours. The system is very simple, robust and eecient, and runs on a hardware platform which could be duplicated for less than $10K US. The system was built to explore how knowledge about the structure the environment can be used in a principled way to simplify both visual and motor processing. I will argue t...

Latest advances in hardware technology and state of the art of mobile robot and artificial intelligence research can be employed to develop autonomous and distributed monitoring systems. And mobile service robot requires the perception of its present position to coexist with humans and support humans effectively in populated environments. To realize these abilities, robot needs to keep track of...

A robotic-aid system could be more effective if the system were intelligent enough to understand human needs and adapt its behaviors accordingly. This paper presents our efforts to realize such a robot that we call a cognitive robot through a multi-agent-based cognitive robot architecture with three distinctive memory systems. Several applications illustrate how the system interacts with humans.

ABSTRACT One of the basic questions in robot use is: which is the way of solwing their guidance to unraval a problem of object undefined position and orientation in robots working area. This paper describes techniques of identification and classification of industrial robot guided by intelligent system, working tasks, methods of object recordings, picture processing and robot guidance in space.

In Japan alone the number of disabled and elderly people are growing rapidly and they usually require personal transportation vehicles such as cars and wheelchairs. However, people currently have limited capabilities or difficulties to operate these vehicles in such complex environments like shopping malls or tourist-attraction centers. In recent years, a great number of studies of mobile robot...

being one of the major research fields in the robotics discipline, the robot motion planning problem deals with finding an obstacle-free start-to-goal path for a robot navigating among workspace obstacles. such a problem is also encountered in path planning of intelligent vehicles and automatic guided vehicles (agvs). traditional (exact) algorithms have failed to solve the problem effectively s...

The applications of robot are very extended and have already become classic in different branches of mass industrial production such as welding, painting by spraying, antirust protection, etc. Though the operations performed by robots in these fields are very complex, the operations of assembly are even more complex. In fact, robot assembly operations involve the process of direct solving the c...

In recent years, the autonomous mobile robot has found diverse applications such as home/health care system, surveillance system in civil and military applications and exhibition robot. For surveillance tasks such as moving target pursuit or following and patrol in a region using mobile robot, this paper presents a fuzzy Q-learning, as an intelligent control for cost-based navigation, for auton...