Biped robot locomotion is one of the active research areas in robotics. In this area, real-time stable walking with proper speed is one of the main challenges that needs to be overcome. Central Pattern Generators (CPG) as one of the biological gait generation models, can produce complex nonlinear oscillation as a pattern for walking. In this paper, we propose a model for a biped robot joint tra...

technology selection is an important part of management of technology. recently karsak and ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) methodology for selection of the best advanced manufacturing technology (amt) candidates based on a number of attributes. however, amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

Robots with vastly different capabilities and specifications are available for a wide range of applications. Selection of a robot from among the large number available in the market to suit a particular application and production environment has become a difficult task. Many methods for robot selection have been developed to date. Keeping in view the research works on industrial robot selection...

This paper evaluates a path selection algorithm for mobile robots in large dynamic environments. The aim of the work is to reduce the risk of collisions and time of path following in cases when the robot repeatedly traverses between predefined target points (e.g. fot transportation or inspection tasks). The algorithm is usable even if very little is known about the environment or if it gets com...

mobile robot navigation is one of the basic problems in robotics. in this paper, a new approachis proposed for autonomous mobile robot navigation in an unknown environment. the proposedapproach is based on learning virtual parallel paths that propel the mobile robot toward the trackusing a multi-layer, feed-forward neural network. for training, a human operator navigates themobile robot in some...

Effective learning by demonstration techniques enable complex robot behaviors to be taught from a small number of demonstrations. Demonstrations are obtained based on a selection algorithm, which governs which states are labeled by the human teacher. In this work, we examine selection algorithms used by the robot to request demonstration examples. Previous approaches typically rely on a fixed c...

Technology selection is an important part of management of technology. Recently Karsak and Ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for selection of the best Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) candidates based on a number of attributes. However, Amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

We present the Robot Gesture Library (RoGuE), a motion-planning approach to generating gestures. Gestures improve robot communication skills, strengthening robots as partners in a collaborative setting. Previous work maps from environment scenario to gesture selection. This work maps from gesture selection to gesture execution. We create a flexible and common language by parameterizing gestures...