This paper describes o di.vpla>) and cm trol methodology -for combining (or “ji.ving”) d~fircnt nlultidittlcn.~iorlal sensor da(a to guide the pcrfomancc of fe]erobotic contact or near-contact tasks successfully in both manual and supervised autonlatic modes of control. Success is defined as a mapping oj control goals or subgoals into a m ultidinl cnsional data space. Several inlpIenlcntcd exan...

Novel remote operation paradigms, such as teleteaching/tele-learning, virtual laboratories, and online robots, represent challenging distributed robotic applications, where developers must deal with heterogeneous, dynamic, and highly concurrent control systems. Distributed Object Computing can be essential to cope with the complexity of such systems, offering the many advantages of the Object O...

This paper presents a novel practical solution for registering a set of partially overlapping range images of an arbitrary scene. It was developed for application in remote telerobotic operation in unstructured environments. The method is based on simple matching of 2-D range profiles extracted from two images. It handles all six degrees of freedom and does not rely on any particular geometric ...

As governments are increasingly turning to cost sharing in order to meet the growing demand for, and decreasing government investment in, public higher education, the choice among different tuition fee policies becomes of great importance. Tuition fee policies and the financial assistance policies that accompany them are critical both for the very considerable revenue at stake and for the poten...

background: reducing drug-related issues less than 18 years of age and increasing population of this group of addiction emphasizes importance of educating social skills for reinforcing drug assistance self-efficiency in this social group. the study was aimed to measure impact of social skills on drug abstinence self-efficacy amongst male students in ahwaz city, southwest iran. methods: with sem...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of individual-focused stress management training namely deep breathing exercise (dbe) on self-perceived occupational stress among male automotive assembly-line workers.a quasi-experimental study was conducted at 2 automotive assembly plants in malaysia over 9 months, from january 2012 to september 2012. assembly-line workers from plant a r...

background in the past 10 years, 13 fatal earthquakes have occurred in iran and led to death of 30,000 people whom most of them were killed in the earlier hours of the disaster. disaster medical assistance teams are groups of trained medical and non-medical personnel with various combinations that on the optimal conditions are deployed just within 8 hours of notification and are able to work se...

Telepresence systems can be used for repair and maintenance in environments that are hard to access or dangerous for the human. Current systems can effectively the gross motor skills of the human operator into actions in the remote environment. In comparison, fine manipulation, like the secure grasping and handling of complex objects, is error-prone and strenuous for the operator. To execute su...