This chapter discusses two analysis techniques that are being used in order to study how children with autism interact with an autonomous, mobile and ‘social’ robot in a social setting that also involves adults. A quantitative technique based on micro-behaviours is outlined. The second technique, Conversation Analysis, provides a qualitative and more detailed investigation of the sequential ord...

In submarine oil and gas pipelines, the movement of a differential pressure multisection pipeline robot mainly relies on front rear driving difference fluid friction between cup pipe wall. The passability is key point to guarantee success in scanning detecting inner wall by robot. When moves, force internode connection points changes degree freedom existence causes speed fluctuations during pro...

Evaluation of mobile robots is a multidimensional problem. There are many performance indices that can be used to compare and evaluate mobile robots. Examples are speed, stability etc. A natural framework for the evaluation of mobile robots is multicriteria evaluation the science of evaluation functions whose output is nonscalar. In this paper we present a methodology for mission oriented mobil...

Despite recent progress, autonomous navigation on Micro Aerial Vehicles with a single frontal camera is still a challenging problem, especially in feature-lacking environments. On a mobile robot with a frontal camera, monoSLAM can fail when there are not enough visual features in the scene, or when the robot, with rotationally dominant motions, yaws away from a known map toward unknown regions....

An important area for the application of machine vision is to industrial assembly tasks, where the effective automation of such tasks is often dependent on the use of robots with sensing capabilities. The micro-world environment of a typical industrial assembly robot, although complex may also be highly constrained, with considerable information available a priori about objects and their dispos...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------Abstract The Self balancing robot is based on the inverted pendulum concept. In this concept an inverted pendulum is positioned on a cart and the cart is allowed to move on the horizontal axis and the pendulum is required to stand upright . This type of case is that of...