For mobile robots, as well as other learning systems, the ability to highlight unexpected features of their environment – novelty detection – is very useful. One particularly important application for a robot equipped with novelty detection is inspection, highlighting potential problems in an environment. In this paper two novelty filters, both of which are capable of on-line and off-line novel...

We discuss the motivation and an architectural framework for using small mobile robots as automated aids to operators of nondestructive inspection (NDI) equipment. We review the need for aircraft skin inspection, and identify the constraints in commercial airlines operations that make small mobile robots the most attractive alternative for automated aids for NDI procedures. We describe the desi...

In this document an architecture and communication protocol stack for interaction of industrial robots and vision systems is introduced. With examples of a weld seam inspection and a motor compartment inspection real-time communication via Ethernet, TCP/IP and XML is examined. An XML command set for type independent robot control is presented.

This paper presents a motion optimization system for an industrial quality inspection process where a vision device coupled with a manipulator robot arm is able to perform quality and completeness inspection on a complex solid part. In order to be deployed in an industrial production plant, the proposed system has been engineered and integrated as a module of an offline simulator, called WorkCe...

Once an individual has access to the Internet, there is a wide variety of different methods of communication and information exchange over the network, one of them is telepresence robot. This study presents a web framework for web conference system of intelligent telepresence robot. The robot is controlled using web conference system from Google App Engine, so the manager/supervisor at office/i...

The automated inspection is desired to detect the vehicle in large parking space, which is difficult to survey by fixed the vision-sensor. We purposed mobile robot surveillance in parking space for parking lot inspection. To obtain the parking lot information, vision sensor is wide useful for parking lot state checking which measurement is difficult to obtain the positioning of vehicle while ac...

Coordination of Communication in Robot Teams by Reinforcement Learning p. 156 Self-organized Multi-agent System for Robot Deployment in Unknown Environments p. 165 Selective Method Based on Auctions for Map Inspection by Robotic Teams p. 175 Study of a Multi-Robot Collaborative Task through Reinforcement Learning p. 185 Design of Social Agents p. 192 Event-Based System for Generation of Traffic...