Leaks are major problem that occur in the water pipelines all around the world. Several reports indicate loss of around 20 to 30 percent of water in the distribution of water through water pipe systems. Such loss of water represents critical waste of valuable resources, especially in countries such as Saudi Arabia where water is scarce. Moreover, leaks provide pathways for outside contaminants ...

Underwater systems are modern and challenging area of modern robotics. Underwater exploration is also crucial for investigating bio-marine species, monitoring pollution, and developing disaster warning system. The most significant part of the underwater exploration activities are sensing and measuring. In a dynamic environment, it is not sufficient to scan an area or volume with a single sensor...

In the robotic belt grinding process, elastic contact condition between flexible tool and workpiece is a critical issue which extremely influences surface quality of manufactured part. The existing analysis removal mechanism based on statistic but ignoring dynamic phenomenon. this paper, we discussed pressure distribution caused by non-unique depth in process. Based single grit, obtained topolo...

flapping-wing robotic insects are small, highly maneuverable flying robots inspired by biologicalinsects and useful for a wide range of tasks, including exploration, environmental monitoring, searchand rescue, and surveillance. recently, robotic insects driven by piezoelectric actuators have achievedthe important goal of taking off with external power; however, fully autonomous operation requir...

Continuum robotic arms that are inspired from nature, have many advantages compared to traditional robots, which motivate researchers in this field. Dynamic modeling and controlling these robots are challenging subjects due to complicated nonlinearities and considerable uncertainties existing in these structures. In this paper, first a dynamic three-dimensional model of the continuum robotic ar...

PURPOSE Rapid adoption of robot-assisted surgery has outpaced our ability to train novice roboticists. Objective metrics are required to adequately assess robotic surgical skills and yet surrogates for proficiency, such as economy of motion and tool path metrics, are not readily accessible directly from the da Vinci® robot system. The trakSTAR™ Tool Tip Tracker is a widely available, cost-effec...

This paper documents a functionality-driven exploration of automatic working-memory management in Soar. We first derive and discuss desiderata that arise from the need to embed a mechanism for managing working memory within a general cognitive architecture that is used to develop realtime agents. We provide details of our mechanism, including the decay model and architecture-independent data st...

Locomotion capabilities form the basis for accomplishing robotic exploration by a rover on an asteroid. While traditional locomotion gears, such as wheels and tracks, are promising candidates for traversing extraterrestrial terrains, their capabilities lower in such an environment due to its micro-gravity. Here, we propose a new idea of ciliary micro-hopping mechanism for an asteroid exploratio...

Wireless communications represent a game changer for future manufacturing plants, enabling flexible production chains, as machinery and other components not to be restricted location by the rigid wired connections on factory floor. However, presence of electromagnetic interference in wireless spectrum may result packet loss delay, making it challenging environment meet extreme reliability requi...