Smart Fluid Systems: The Advent of Autonomous Liquid Robotics

Liquid Robotics: Smart Fluid Systems: The Advent of Autonomous Liquid Robotics (Adv. Sci. 7/2017)

Are Autonomous Mobile Robots Able to Take Over Construction? A Review

Although construction has been known as a highly complex application field for autonomous robotic systems, recent advances in this field offer great hope for using robotic capabilities to develop automated construction. Today, space research agencies seek to build infrastructures without human intervention, and construction companies look to robots with the potential to improve construction qua...

Knowledge mining for biomimetic smart antenna shapes

Antennas used on autonomous robots have been optimized very little for the tasks which need to be mastered in order to achieve true autonomy. In contrast to this, natural biosonar systems offer a highly diverse set of optimized antenna solutions. With biosonar as a sufficient far-sense, bats are capable of achieving complete autonomy in unconstrained natural environments. A set of methods is de...

An architecture for a VLSI sensory-motor system for obstacle avoidance

This paper presents a signal processing architecture for a sensory-motor system based on the smart sensor paradigm. The architecture is designed for an obstacle avoidance task by a mobile robot in an unstructured environment. Drawing inspiration from the field of behavior-based robotics, the development of the architecture is guided by an emphasis on the requirements of an obstacle avoidance be...

The concept of PEIS Ecology: Integrating Robots into smart environments

Autonomous robotic devices are vital to the peformance of space mission. These range from smart servo-controlled devices (e.g., an antenna or a camera) to autonomous mobile robots (e.g., planetary rovers) to future interactive astronaut assistants. Each robotic device operates in its specific environment, which is usually not fully predictable and not fully observable, and which may include hum...