As the manufacturing tasks become more individualized and more flexible, the machines in smart factory are required to do variable tasks collaboratively without reprogramming. This paper for the first time discusses the similarity between smart manufacturing systems and the ubiquitous robotic systems and makes an effort on deploying ubiquitous robotic technology to the smart factory. Specifical...

The paper investigates the concept of software “stability” applied to robot systems. We define “stable” a family of systems modelled, designed and implemented so that specific applications of the family may be developed re-using, adapting and specializing knowledge, architecture and existing components. During the last few years, many ideas and technologies of software engineering (e.g. modular...

Given the wide range and diversity of proposed architectures for autonomous robotic agents, an essential role can be played by a programming environment not hardwired to any particular architecture. This paper discusses the design of a programming environment for robotic systems, promoting rapid prototyping techniques for building diierent robotic architectures, while retaining a good eeciency ...

Designing autonomous robotic systems able to manipulate deformable objects without human intervention constitutes a challenging area of research. The complexity of interactions between a robot manipulator and a deformable object originates from a wide range of deformation characteristics that have an impact on varying degrees of freedom. Such sophisticated interaction can only take place with t...

This paper describes a computational architecture which supports the development and operation of semi-autonomous robotic systems. The Ames Robotic Computational Architecture (ARCA) provides a unified framework for integrating diverse subsystems and components, ranging from servocontrollers to operator interfaces. In addition, it reconciles a broad spectrum of processing domains, enables the de...

Robotic ecologies are systems made out of several robotic devices, including mobile robots, wireless sensors and effectors embedded in everyday environments, where they cooperate to achieve complex tasks. This paper demonstrates how endowing robotic ecologies with information processing algorithms such as perception, learning, planning, and novelty detection can make these systems able to deliv...

BACKGROUND The adoption of minimally invasive approaches to the management of esophageal disease has been slow, except for the laparoscopic management of gastroesophageal reflux disease. However, the advent of new surgical technologies - in particular, robotic-assisted surgical systems - has revolutionized esophageal surgery. METHODS The literature was systematically reviewed using the keywor...

Recent demands in robotics accelerated the growth of high precision technology using parallel mechanism in various applications such as medicine, environmental investigations, industry, inteligent systems etc. Maintaining the desired dynamic behavior of systems in the face of perturbations and other uncertainties has become the ultimate goal in stability of robotic systems, [1]. In some robotic...

Free-flying space manipulator systems, in which robotic manipulators are mounted on a free-flying spacecraft, are envisioned for assembling, maintenance, repair, and contingency operations in space. Nevertheless, even for fixed-base systems, control of mechanical manipulators is a challenging task. This is due to strong nonlinearities in the equations of motion, and consequently different algor...

Ubiquitous robotics augments the capabilities of one or more robots by leveraging ubiquitous computational and/or sensorial resources. Augmentation complements and/or enhances the capabilities of one or more robots while such robots can simultaneously serve as intermediaries to ubiquitous services. Electroencephalograms (EEG) are Brain-Computer Interfaces that consist of a series of conductors ...