From the Back Cover Robotic vision, the combination of robotics and computer vision, involves the application of computer algorithms to data acquired from sensors. The research community has developed a large body of such algorithms but for a newcomer to the field this can be quite daunting. For over 20 years the author has maintained two open-source MATLAB Toolboxes, one for robotics and one f...

To date research in intelligent mobile agent have mainly focused on the development of a large and smart “brain” to enable robot autonomy (Arkin 2000; Murphy 2000). They are, however, facing a bottleneck of complexity due to the dynamics of the unstructured environments. Steering away from this smart brain approach, this chapter investigates the use of low level intelligence, such as insect eye...

Multi-robot systems have the potential to improve application-specific performance by offering redundancy, increased coverage and throughput, flexible reconfiguration, and/or spatially diverse functionality (Kitts & Egerstedt, 2008). For mobile systems, a driving consideration is the method by which the motions of the individual vehicles are coordinated. Centralized approaches have been success...

background: expression of epstein-barr virus latent member protein-1 (ebv lmp-1) and loss of p16 protein expression are documented in lymphoma, indicating a relationship between them, but this relationship is not clear and sometimes contradictory. thus, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between the loss of p16 and ebv lmp-1 expression in jordanian patients diagnosed with lymp...

While there has been significant progress in recent years in the study of estimation and control of dynamic network graphs, limited attention has been paid to the experimental validation and verification of such algorithms on distributed teams of robots. In this work we conduct an experimental study of a non-trivial distributed connectivity control algorithm on a team of seven nonholonomic robo...

In this paper, we have studied strategies for controlling formations of mobile robots using methods from nonlinear control theory and graph theory. We have focused on decomposing the problem of controlling a formation of nonholonomic mobile robots into: 1) controlling a single lead robot and 2) controlling other follower robots in the team. We used the terms l 0 and l 0 l control to reflect whe...

Harmonic functions are known to have an advantage as a global potential function in the potential field based approach for robot path planning. However, an immense amount of computations are required as the size of the environment get bigger. This paper conducts an experiment to speed up the computation by solving the harmonic functions with faster solver, i.e. two-point Explicit Group (EG) ite...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful All praise and glory to Almighty Allah (Subhanahu Wa Taalaa) who gave me courage and patience to carry out this work. Peace and blessing of Allah be upon last Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). Acknowledgment is due to King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals for supporting this research. My unrestrained appreciation goe...

Modern production processes continuously require enhancement in production time and the quality of the products. The use of robots in this field of application has formed an increasingly important aspect of the drive for efficiency. These robots typically work in restricted areas to prevent any harmful interaction with humans and are designed for repeatability, speed and precision. However, new...