Mobile robots can be highly valuable tools in Urban Rescue Missions, inspecting collapsed buildings, assessing the situation, looking for victims and establishing a first contact to them. At the International University Bremen (IUB), rescue robots for these tasks are developed. The American National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a special testing arena based on dat...

This paper proposes a distributed algorithm for circle formation by multiple autonomous mobile robots with limited visibility. Each robot sees up to a fixed distance around it and moves to a new position. Eventually they form a circle of a given radius. The robots do not store past actions. The robots are anonymous and cannot be distinguished by their appearances. All robots agree upon a common...

With a few exceptions, today’s mobile robots, however complex, are not truly autonomous. At some time, they all require humans to supply them with energy and/or information; most also require other forms of assistance. In complete contrast, even the simplest animals are totally self-sufficient. We describe a current project1 which aims to construct autonomous robots with animal-like self-suffic...

In this paper, a voice command system for autonomous robots is proposed as a project. The methodology adopted is based on hybrid techniques used in speech recognition which are zero crossing and extremes with dynamic time warping followed by a decision system based on independent methods test results. To implement the approach on a real time application, a personal computer interface was design...

Today’s robots are used mainly as advanced tools and do not have any capability of taking moral responsibility. However, autonomous, learning intelligent systems are developing rapidly, resulting in a new division of tasks between humans and robots. The biggest worry about autonomous intelligent systems seems to be the fear of human loss of control and robots running amok. We argue that for all...

Although ground robots have been successfully used for many years in manufacturing, the capability of aerial to agilely navigate often sparse and static upper part factories makes them suitable performing tasks interest industrial sectors. This paper presents design, development, validation a fully autonomous robotic system manufacturing industries. It includes modules accurate pose estimation ...