This paper presents an analysis and design method for human/robot integrated systems, especially for the coordination of human and robot formations based on a group of distributed mobile manipulators. The key for the human/robot integrated system is to create a common motion reference that can be understood by both human and the robots in the formation. First, the perceptive reference frame is ...

Conventional particle swarm optimisation relies on exchanging information through social interaction among individuals. However for real-world problems involving control of physical agents (i.e., robot control), such detailed social interaction is not always possible. In this study, we propose the Perceptive Particle Swarm Optimisation algorithm, in which both social interaction and environment...

In this paper, we formulate the fuzzy perceptive model for discounted Markov decision processes in which the perception for transition probabilities is described by fuzzy sets. The optimal expected reward, called a fuzzy perceptive value, is characterized and calculated by a new fuzzy relation. As a numerical example, a machine maintenance problem is considered.

This paper discusses a perception-based theory for a multi-variate stopping problem with a monotone rule by Yasuda et al. (1982). The problem is developed by using the perceptive analysis of the previous work(Kurano et al. (2004)). We will show a recursive equation which determines the perceptive value of its equilibrium point for the model.

Visual sensory and perceptive functioning in five-year-old very preterm/very low birth weight children. ABSTRACT Aim To examine visual sensory and perceptive functions, study their interrelations, and explore associations between visual dysfunctions and intelligence in very preterm/very low birth weight (VP/VLBW) children.

The formation control of multiple vehicles using a perceptive frame is studied in this paper. The method is applied to multiple mobile robots. The controller design and lab experiments are shown in the paper. Some useful strategies of coordination are implemented in a perceptive frame by reference projections. The feature of the coordination is illustrated by experiments of three mobile robots.