This paper describes the ongoing project on autonomous spilled oil and gas tracking buoy system and application to marine disaster prevention system for 5 years since FY2011 (http://www.naoe.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~kato/project/). The objectives of this project are as (1)autonomous tracking and monitoring of spilled plumes of oil and gas from subsea production facilities by an underwater buoy robot,...

As autonomous robots become more complex in their behavior, more sophisticated software architectures are required to support the ever more sophisticated robotics software. These software architectures must support complex behaviors involving adaptation and learning, implemented, in particular, by neural networks. We present in this paper a neural based schema [2] software architecture for the ...

Consider a group of autonomous, mobile robots with the ability to physically connect to one another (self-assemble). The group is said to exhibit functional self-assembly if the robots can choose to selfassemble in response to the demands of their task and environment [15]. We present the first robotic controller capable of functional self-assembly implemented on a real robotic platform. The ta...

Car manufacturers need robots that reliably and mindlessly repeat sequences of actions in a well organised environment For many other purposes au tonomous robots are needed that will behave appropriately in a disorganised environment that will react adaptively when faced with circumstances that they have never faced before The design of autonomous robots has an intimate relationship with the st...

With the continuous development of the industrialization process, the countries all over the world gradually appeared lack of agricultural labor force and aging phenomenon, which was especially prominent in developed countries. However the agricultural robot with high operating efficiency, high qualities of work will play an increasingly important role in future agricultural production. Robot n...

We propose a semi-autonomous teleoperation control framework for wheeled mobile robots with nonholonomic constraints and second-order Lagrangian dynamics over the Internet. The proposed control architecture consists of the two control-loops: 1) local autonomous formation control, which, residing in the common workspace of the robots, ensures rigid formationkeeping among the robots regardless of...

Petri net model of the communication level of a cooperative autonomous mobile robots system (CAMRS) is presented. The purpose of this model is to specify the integration of the individual efforts on path planning, motion control, and vision system that are necessary for the autonomous operation of the mobile robots. This is achieved by analytically modeling the various units of the system as Pe...

The annual robot soccer competition (RoboCup) provides an excellent opportunity for research in distributed robotic systems. A robotic soccer team demands integrated robots that are autonomous, efficient, cooperative, and intelligent. To achieve autonomy, robots must have all necessary capabilities on board, i.e., perception, propulsion, communication, navigation, and decision making. Their con...

The capabilities of robots and autonomous systems have increased dramatically over the past years. This success story partly depends on advances in signal processing which provide appropriate and efficient analysis of sensor data and enable autonomy. A key element of the transition of signal processing output to its exploitation inside robots and autonomous systems is the way uncertainty is man...

This paper describes CRAM (Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine) as a software toolbox for the design, the implementation, and the deployment of cognition-enabled autonomous robots performing everyday manipulation activities. CRAM equips autonomous robots with lightweight reasoning mechanisms that can infer control decisions rather than requiring the decisions to be preprogrammed. This way CRAMprog...