In this paper an adaptive multiagent robotic assembly system is presented. State of the art industrial equipment is utilized to perform various assembly tasks in a highly unstructured environment without the need for central control. The emphasis is given to the developed methods that address particular issues in such robotic assembly systems. Close collaboration and intertwined work with human...

Based on the assumption that the link between stimulus and percept is of statistical nature, the subject of sensory communication is tackled from the standpoint of the Shannon's theory of information. After introduction of the general mathematical model identifying the given source of stimuli to an abstract information source and the given channel of sensorial perception to an abstract communic...

Constructing narratives involves mobilising the traveller imagination and finding original ways to convey narrative intentions. When a traveller invents a story, there is a natural interaction with the local environment and the use of various means of expression. Our goal is to adopt a user-centred approach to envision new instruments, to support travellers when performing their activities. The...

Connecting words with senses, namely, sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, to comprehend the sensorial information in language is a straightforward task for humans by using commonsense knowledge. With this in mind, a lexicon associating words with senses would be crucial for the computational tasks aiming at interpretation of language. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no syste...

The proposal of this work is to develop hardware and algorithms completely integrated with the sensorial systems of robots. The intention is adjust its movements in sensorial environments. In this context, the algorithms are called Artificial Proprioceptive Systems (APS), where these algorithms detail how to configure controllers for to provide the movement of robot-arm.This work initially intr...

Cured Iberian ham is one of the most valuable meat products of Spain and Portugal, with a first-rate consumer acceptance. Its sensorial characteristics are basically due to high intramuscular fat content and marbling, i.e. number, position, shape and size of intramuscular fat streaks. Our current attempts are to investigate the relationship between spatio-geometrical characteristics of fat stre...

Background: The population ageing occurring worldwide resulted in multiple researches on sedentary ageing and quality of life. Purpose: To verify the effects of a physical activity programme on the quality of life (QOL) of elderly individuals served by a governmental health programme. Design: Descriptive inquiry research. Methods: randomly distributing 70 elderly individuals in a control group ...

While humans are capable of building connections between words and sensorial modalities by using commonsense knowledge, it is not straightforward for machines to interpret sensorial information. To this end, a lexicon associating words with human senses, namely sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, would be crucial. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, there is no systematic attempt in ...

Through interacting with urban and architectural spaces, pedestrian pathway‟s ambient fingerprints delineate ambiences with identifiable characteristics, thus characterizing landscape perception potentialities. Based on a measure of the surrounding open spaces using isovists, our proposal consists in building a sensory Digital Terrain models (DTM) in which the entropy of the function of radial ...

Internet of Things (IoT) is being researched all over the world. The ability to communicate with the physical world through digital sensorial and actuator devices has enabled human being to understand, control and maintain nature with more efficiency. Several research are presented in the literature where majority focused on specific applications, or some specific challenge. These works often r...