Robots or other agents with some need for action planning functionality may not insist on running their planners on-board. Web services technology offers a very flexible way of connecting planning clients to planning servers, disregarding the language in which the concrete planning system is implemented and its operating system requirements. A planning web service can then be used locally withi...

Serving hors d'oeuvres is not as easy as it might seem! You have to move carefully between people, gently and politely offer them hors d'oeuvres, make sure that you have not forgotten to serve someone in the room, and refill the serving tray when required. These are the challenges that robots have to face in the Hors d'Oeuvres, Any-one? event, part of the AAAI-2001 Mobile Robot Competition. H o...

accommodation of mechanism with human being’s physical characteristics creates the possibility of safe and efficient interaction between human being and robot. regarding the fact that amputation of a limb in human beings causes several mental, economical and social difficulties and problems, need to a substitute limb which has the most efficiency for the person after amputation is a vital need....

The Internet provides a unique opportunity to tele-operate and monitor mobile robots. Web-controlled mobile robots can give people all over the world the ability to become telepresent at distant places. Additionally, Internet-based tele-experimentation systems for mobile robots give distributed research groups located at distant places the ability to carry out joint experiments. This way, they ...

Scheduling is an important subject of production and operations management area. In flow-shop scheduling, the objective is to obtain a sequence of jobs which when processed in a fixed order of machines, will optimize some well defined criteria. The concept of transportation time is very important in scheduling. Transportation can be done by robots. In situations that robots are used to transpor...

Web Telerobotics is a new and rapidly growing field of telerobotic research. Initially it was considered a novelty, but developments in the field combined with rapidly improving Internet technologies have opened up new application areas. The most promising area is the use of web devices as teaching aids in school and university course work. Given that web telerobots are appearing in increasingl...

Dear Editor, The emergence of diseases due to drug resistance, genetic mutations, and transmission has made the future of infectious diseases complicated and vague. Currently, the prevalence of coronavirus, with high infectivity and significant lethality, has made infection control among nurses and patient one of the main goals of the World Health Organization [1]. At present, the prevention ...

This paper proposes an automated web site evaluation using machine learning to extract evaluation criteria from existing evaluation data. Web site evaluation is a significant task because evaluated web sites provide information useful to users in estimating sites validation and popularity. Although many practical approaches have been taken to present possible measuring sticks for web sites, the...

In order to desing a Robotics Tele-Laboratory that permits simultaneous remote control and programming of several robots, we must take into account multiple aspects. One of the most important refers to the System Architecture and Communication Technology that permits such a level of multirobot interaction. In this paper we present the system architecture that has been used in our laboratory to ...