This paper addresses the introduction of a new Human Robot Interaction (HRI) sensor for guide robots. Guide robots for geriatric patients or the visually impaired should follow user's control command, keeping a certain desired distance allowing the user to work freely. Therefore, it is necessary to acquire control commands and a user's position on a real-time basis. We suggest a new sensor fusi...

This paper describes ULAP, a framework for scrutable modeling and prediction of people’s locations and activities, based upon a diverse collection of sensors, with varying reliability. It supports transformation and aggregation of sensor data, using this to build individual user models of location and activity. We propose an approach to indicate the certainty of predictions about users based up...

The development of high-speed intelligent rail transit has increased the number of sensors applied on trains. These play an important role in train state control and monitoring. These sensors generally work in a severe environment, so the key problem for sensor data acquisition is to ensure data accuracy and reliability. In this paper, we follow the sequence of sensor signal flow, present senso...

Intelligent environment research has resulted in many useful tools such as activity recognition, prediction, and automation. However, most of these techniques have been applied in the context of a single resident. A current looming issue for intelligent environment systems is performing these same techniques when multiple residents are present in the environment. In this paper we investigate th...

This master thesis deals with intelligent agents and the possibility to use the intelligent agent technology in future distributed sensor systems. The term future distributed sensor system refers to a system based on several sensors that will be developed within a period of five to ten years. Since researchers have not agreed on a more precise definition of intelligent agents, we first examined...

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Modeling and simulation, intelligent software agents, and other technologies can support network-centric distributed tracking. These technologies came together in the Knowledge Management for Distributed Tracking (KMDT) research and development program to improve naval command, control, and decision support. The program's approach is based...

This paper reviews the field of intelligent (smart) sensor technology and describes some of the trends that have emerged over the last two decades. The functionality of intelligent sensors is discussed, together with an assessment of the various technologies that can be employed to achieve both the hardware and software aspects of the discipline. The current interest in sensor networks poses so...