The research of humanoid robot and intelligent prosthesis is integrated and a new-style humanoid robot named biped robot with heterogeneous legs (BRHL) is proposed to provide an ideal test-bed for intelligent bionic leg (IBL). The research background and concept of BRHL are introduced. The existed problems of common humanoid robot leg are analysed in detail. Based on bionics, the joint structur...

An intelligent environment employing multiple vision sensors labeled with identification features is proposed. The union of the sensing ranges of these vision sensors covers a large unknown workspace where a mobile robot can proceed to explore. The goal of this research is to accomplish mobile robot localization and navigation based on such a calibration-free sensor network. Specifically, stati...

This paper presents a new hybrid control architecture for Intelligent Mobile Robot navigation based on implementation of Artificial Neural Networks for behavior generation. The architecture is founded on the use of Artificial Neural Networks for assemblage of fast reacting behaviors, obstacle detection and module for action selection based on environment classification. In contrast to standard ...

Wireless sensor and actuator network is the key technology of service robot intelligent space. This paper is concerned with design and implementation of a ZigBee based wireless sensor and actuator network (hereinafter referred to as ZWSAN), which has been applied in our service robot intelligent space successfully. Firstly, a simplified ZigBee stack applied to ZWSAN is proposed and the primitiv...

In this paper we present a system that motivates adaptive, curious behavior in a robot in a survival scenario. We continue prior work done on using evolutionary algorithms and neural nets to develop a robot controller capable of collecting energy in a simulated survival environment. Neural nets are efficient for producing survival behavior, but the robot only knows how to respond to stimuli it ...

In recent years, more and more elderly are living lonely. The project has achieved for them or children to control the robot in the intelligent phones by the Bluetooth serial. It has finished the software about commanding the robot in the intelligent phones based on the android frame. The ultimate function is to realize the smart phone to control the robot via Bluetooth to do a series of action...

A kind of intelligent control system based on fuzzy neural network optimized and trained by the adaptive ant colony optimization algorithm was proposed and constructed in this paper. The structure and the parameters of this intelligent control system were introduced. This intelligent control system used as joint servo controller is applied to the simulation research of robot control. Simulation...

Mobile robots have been used widely in large number of intelligent based applications, where a random manoeuvring is an essential part of such systems, [1,2]. In this regards, experience has shown that mobile robots do require advanced parallel intelligent based control mechanisms. In this article, it is shown how a mobile robot can be controlled in movement via some rule based system. In this ...

Intelligent Space (iSpace) is a space (room, corridor, or street), which has distributed sensory and mobile agents, that is capable to provide intelligent services. In this paper, experimental setup between Hashimoto Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan and Advanced Diagnosis Automation and Control Lab, North Carolina State University, USA is prepared to form an Inter-Continental Intelligent Space. ...

In the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (IRL) at Vanderbilt University we seek to develop service robots with a high level of social intelligence and interactivity. In order to achieve this goal, we have identified two main issues for research. The first issue is how to achieve a high level of interaction between the human and the robot. This has lead to the formulation of our philosophy of Huma...