This paper presents a real-time open-architecture control system (ROACS) which has been developed for flexible manipulation of industrial robots. Flexible manipulation refers to robot manipulation that handles tasks with uncertainties; hence, decision-making based on feedback data is essential in realtime operation. A real-time open-architecture control system with the capacity of parallel proc...

This paper proposes the application of Neuro-Fuzzy (NF) hybrid system for Sumo Robot (SR) control. This robot is frequently designed by engineering students for robotic competition. As the relation between sensors output signals and motors control pulses is highly nonlinear in SR, soft computing techniques can be used to define this nonlinear relation and control of the robot in a competition r...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design, development and simulation of a real time controller for an intelligent, vision guided robot. The use of a creative controller that can select its own tasks is demonstrated. This creative controller uses a task control center and dynamic database. The dynamic database stores both global environmental information and local information includin...

ion in general can be classified into control abstraction and data abstraction. Control abstraction is the abstraction of actions while data abstraction is that of information or knowledge. The result of control abstraction is often represented as a framework while data abstraction as an ontological data model. In this article, we present an agent-based control framework based on the traditiona...

This paper discusses the problem of integrating human intelligence and skills into an intelligentmanufacturing system. Our center has joined the Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) Project, an international consortium dedicated to developing holonic systems technologies. One of our contributions to this e ort is in Work Package 6: Flexible Human Integration. This paper will focus on one activit...