T his special issue of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM) has been prepared in the scope of the activities of the Technical Committee on Autonomous Ground Vehicle and Intelligent Transportation Systems (AGV-ITS) (http://www.ieee-ras.org/ autonomous-groundvehicles-and-intelligenttransportation-systems) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). The purpose of this special issue ...

Bioprocess development is very labor intensive, requiring many experiments to characterize each unit operation in the process sequence to achieve product safety and process efficiency. Recent advances in microscale biochemical engineering have led to automated experimentation. A process design workflow is implemented sequentially in which (1) a liquid-handling system performs high-throughput we...

Keywords: 3C Intelligent home appliance CCD a b s t r a c t This study is a creative and initial work focused on designing an intelligently automatic detecting and sensor system for home appliances being smartly interactive with mankind with speech in the living space. Since the tide of automation flowed over the industry, manufacturing business, even the living space of mankind resulting from ...

With the inception of the Internet, huge opportunities have arisen for intelligent automation of business-based transactions. Intelligent agent architectures have gained acceptance in implementing this domain and supporting electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. This use of agents in electronic commerce has mostly been directed toward applications that support transactions b...

Grant Agreement number: FP7-ICT-2009-248434 Project acronym: MOBISERV Project title: MOBISERV: An Integrated Intelligent Home Environment for the Provision of Health, Nutrition and Mobility Services to the Elderly Funding Scheme: Collaborative project Date of latest version of Annex I against which the assessment will be made: 29/10/2009 Periodic report: 1 □ 2 х 3 □ 4 □ Period covered: from 1/1...

Year after year more and more devices are entering modern households. Different types of devices with different and multiple purposes. More often these devices are not just being acquired but interconnected to produce new, small and intelligent home networks. The particular research covers particular aspects of these networks and attempts to analyze users’ requirements and expectations of such ...