This paper describes a new digital design laboratory developed for undergraduate students in this electrical and computer engineering curriculum. A top-down rapid prototyping approach with commercial computer-aided design tools and field-programmable logic devices (FPLDs) is used for laboratory projects. Students begin with traditional transistor–transistor logic-based projects containing a few...

gait rehabilitation using body weight support on a treadmill is a recommended rehabilitation technique for neurological injuries, such as spinal cord injury. in this paper, a new robotic orthosis is presented for treadmill training. in the presented design the criteria such as low inertia of robot components, backdrivability, high safety and degrees of freedom based on human walking are conside...

Large-scale screening of hundreds or even thousands of crystallization conditions while with low sample consumption is in urgent need, in current structural biology research. Here we describe a fully-automated droplet robot for nanoliter-scale crystallization screening that combines the advantages of both automated robotics technique for protein crystallization screening and the droplet-based m...

Opening new application areas for mobile robots requires to design systems that are robust, safe, and adaptive with respect to the environment they are operating in. Such systems must be smart enough to communicate with inexperienced users. They must therefore be easily programmable and understandable. This article describes PRIAMOS, an autonomous mobile robot equipped with a highly sophisticat...

In this paper we show how XSLT and aspect-oriented programming can be used to implement retargetable compilers. New devices can be specified using an XML-based device specification language. A retargeting generator produces a new compiler from this specification, actually it only produces a device specific kernel which is used by the compiler. Both the retargeting generator and the generated co...

This paper presents an integrated on-line learning system to evolve programmable logic array (PLA) controllers for navigating an autonomous robot in a two-dimensional environment. The integrated online learning system consists of two learning modules: one is the module of reinforcement learning based on temporal-di erence learning methods, and the other is the module of evolutionary learning ba...

While the industrial applications of robots will continue to grow, technologies for new applications of rob&c systems are emerging. Robots have evolved from relatively simple programmable pick-and-place devices into a new generation of competent robot systems. Robotic sciences are becoming a discipline, and the investment in prior research has yielded a wide range of component technologies whic...

Th i s p a p e r d e s c r i b e s t h e d e s i g n a n d implementation of mobile robot subsumption architecture in which the computing elements of control are based on programmable FPGA devices. This paper also shows the marriage of two concepts, subsumption architecture and FPGA design. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach a mobile robot control chip which performs the foraging...

This paper presents the first implementation results of a novel Unitronics (Unicellular Electronics) architecture based system that uses a bio-inspired prokaryotic model. It is a programmable cellular FPGA-like system inspired by unicellular bacterial organisms, and transposes self-healing and fault tolerant properties of nature to electronics systems. An e-puck object avoidance robot controlle...

This study applies FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) technology to implement a motion controller for wafer-handling robot which has three-DOF (Degree of Freedom) motion. The proposed FPGA-based motion controller has two modules. The first module is Nios II processor which is used to realize the motion trajectory computation and the three-axis position/speed controllers. The second module is...