Welcome to the ninth issue of the CONET newsletter. CONET is the EU FP7 network of excellence on Cooperating Objects, merging the fields of embedded systems for robotics and control, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networks. CONET focuses on establishing the field of Cooperating Objects within the research and industrial community, thus strengthening the position of Europe in the resear...

Welcome to the 17th issue of the CONET newsletter. CONET is the EU FP7 network of excellence on Cooperating Objects, merging the fields of embedded systems for robotics and control, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networks. CONET focuses on establishing the field of Cooperating Objects within the research and industrial community, thus strengthening the position of Europe in the researc...

The kinematics and dynamics of two industrial cooperating robots are presented in this paper. The NOC (natural orthogonal complement) method is used to derive the dynamical equations for the motion of two cooperating robots. The joint torques of the two robots are determined based on the optimization techniques in order to obtain unique solution for joint torques. To this end, minimizing the cr...

The area of Cooperating Objects is an emerging domain that builds upon (networked) embedded systems, ubiquitous computing and (wireless) sensor networks but stresses the cooperation between modular, autonomous and heterogeneous devices that try to achieve a common goal. We present a definition and explain the characteristics of Cooperating Objects. By looking at market predictions and our own s...

In this paper, we study the differential kinematics and the kineto-static manipulability indices of multiple cooperating robot arms, including active and passive joints. The kinematic manipulability indices are derived extending previous results on cooperating robots without passive joints. The force manipulability analysis for cooperative robot systems cannot be straightforwardly derived by “d...

the kinematics and dynamics of two industrial cooperating robots are presented in this paper. the noc (natural orthogonal complement) method is used to derive the dynamical equations for the motion of two cooperating robots. the joint torques of the two robots are determined based on the optimization techniques in order to obtain unique solution for joint torques. to this end, minimizing the cr...

Systems of systems that collaborate for a common purpose are called cooperating systems. Typical examples of novel cooperating systems are electronic health systems and electronic money transfer systems but also critical infrastructures, such as future vehicular ad hoc networks and distributed air traffic management systems. Business processes and technical workflows control the cooperation of ...

We view cooperating systems as being a set of systems that are distributed over a common communication network and that work towards solving a common task. This is achieved by coordinating and exchanging information and expertise. Such systems exclude conventional database systems since the knowledge these systems contain is buried within application code. In this paper, we overcome this proble...