In behavior-based robotics the control of a robot is shared between a set of purposive perception-action units, called behaviors. Based on selective sensory information, each behavior produces immediate reactions to control the robot with respect to a particular objective, i.e., a narrow aspect of the robot's overall task such as obstacle avoidance or wall following. Behaviors with di erent and...

Behavior-based artificial intelligent system is to derive the complicated behaviors by selecting appropriate one from a set of basic behaviors. Many robot systems have used behavior-based systems since the 1980’s. In this paper, we propose new method to create the sequences of behaviors appropriate to the changing environments by adding the function of learning with Learning Classifier System t...

In the present work, a methodology based on digraph and matrix methods is developed for evaluation of alternative industrial robots. A robot selection index is proposed that evaluates and ranks robots for a given industrial application. The index is obtained from a robot selection attributes function, obtained from the robot selection attributes digraph. The digraph is developed considering rob...

We consider the problem of finding the localization of radioactive source by using data from a digital camera. In other words, the camera could help us to detect the direction of radioactive rays radiation. Therefore, the outcome could be used to command a robot to move toward the true direction to achieve the source. The process of camera data is performed by using image processing and computa...

Title of dissertation: CREATING AN OBJECTIVE METHODOLOGY FOR HUMAN-ROBOT TEAM CONFIGURATION SELECTION Sharon Michelle Singer Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor David L. Akin Department of Aerospace Engineering As technology has been advancing and designers have been looking to future applications, it has become increasingly evident that robotic technology can be used...

Obviously navigation is one of the most complicated issues in mobile robots. Intelligent algorithms are often used for error handling in robot navigation. This Paper deals with the problem of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) error handling by using Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) as an Expert Algorithms. Our focus is put on the field of mobile robot navigation in the 2D environments. The main chall...

Blinking and eye movement are one of the most important abilities that most people have, even people with spinal cord problem. By using this ability these people could handle some of their activities such as moving their wheelchair without the help of others. One of the most important fields in Human-Robot Interaction is the development of artificial limbs working with brain signals. The purpos...

High-level planning can be defined as the process of selection of an appropriate solution from a set of possible candidates. This process typically evaluates each candidate according to some reward function consisting of (1) cost, i.e., effort needed to accomplish the candidate and (2) the utility of accomplishing it and then selects the best one according to this evaluation. The key problem li...

This paper addresses the problem of a features selection criterion for a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm implemented on a mobile robot. This SLAM algorithm is a sequential extended Kalman filter (EKF) implementation that extracts corners and lines from the environment. The selection procedure is made according to the convergence theorem of the EKF-based SLAM. Thus, only t...