Software for Intelligent Robots

Intelligent Robots

Learning for Intelligent Mobile Robots

Unlike intelligent industrial robots which often work in a structured factory setting, intelligent mobile robots must often operate in an unstructured environment cluttered with obstacles and with many possible action paths. However, such machines have many potential applications in medicine, defense, industry and even the home that make their study important. Sensors such as vision are needed....

Creative Learning for Intelligent Robots

This paper describes a methodology for creative learning that applies to man and machines. Creative learning is a general approach used to solve optimal control problems. The creative controller for intelligent machines integrates a dynamic database and a task control center into the adaptive critic learning model. The task control center can function as a command center to decompose tasks into...

Knowledge for Intelligent Industrial Robots

This paper describes an attempt to provide more intelligence to industrial robotics and automation systems. We develop an architecture to integrate disparate knowledge representations used in different places in robotics and automation. This knowledge integration framework, a possibly distributed entity, abstracts the components used in design or production as data sources, and provides a unifo...

Machine Vision for Intelligent Robots

Vision is an ideal sensor modality for intelligent robots. It provides rich information on the environment as required for recognizing objects and understanding situations in real time. Moreover, vision-guided robots may be largely calibration-free, which is a great practical advantage. Three vision-guided robots and their design concepts are introduced: an autonomous indoor vehicle, a calibrat...