This article describes the software architecture of an autonomous, interactive tour-guide robot. It presents a modular and distributed software architecture, which integrates localization, mapping, collision avoidance, planning, and various modules concerned with user interaction and Web-based telepresence. At its heart, the software approach relies on probabilistic computation, on-line learnin...

Medication errors occur frequently and have significant clinical and financial consequences. Several types of information technologies can be used to decrease rates of medication errors. Computerized physician order entry with decision support significantly reduces serious inpatient medication error rates in adults. Other available information technologies that may prove effective for inpatient...

Within the beginning of the Internet there was always a need for an automatic browsing its resources for many purposes like: indexing, cataloguing, validating, monitoring, etc. Because of a todays large volume of the World Wide Web the term Internet is often wrongly identified with the single HTTP protocol service. The process of browsing the World Wide Web in automated manner is called crawlin...

This paper describes the development of a open and immersive Web-based augmented virtual environment for the tele-robotic control of mining robots. Many mining tasks must be done in remote locations. The most convenient mechanism for communication for this task is the Internet, for which a browser-based graphical user interface is developed allowing the operator to control the machine by specif...

Recent years are seeing a worrisome decline in the activity of roboticists within the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) community. Robotics papers, that were abundant in the early Autonomous Agents conferences, have almost disappeared in recent editions of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. To some, this trend seems natural. After al...

This paper describes a way to transform basic robotic platforms into Web remotely controllable robots. Our goal is to achieve robot deployment anywhere at anytime at low-cost. As soon as full or even restricted Internet access is available (WIFI or 3G), the robot can be deployed and Webcontrolled. The distant user can send commands to the robot and monitor the state of the robot. For example th...

Medication errors occur frequently and have significant clinical and financial consequences. Several types of information technologies can be used to decrease rates of medication errors. Computerized physician order entry with decision support significantly reduces serious inpatient medication error rates in adults. Other available information technologies that may prove effective for inpatient...

There are several robots and other devices which can now be controlled over the Internet. It is possible that an expansion of this concept ultimately leading to an Internet controlled factory could assist Australia overcome the 'tyranny' both of distance and of small production volumes. This paper discusses initial work being performed to investigate the relevance and practicality of the Intern...

Radio Frequency IDentification is a promising technology for realizing distributed knowledge databases of the further. The proposed RFID database solution provides a cheap and feasible solution for indoor navigation, long term information storage and exchange between autonomous mobile devices and/or humans. For device interoperability it is proposed in the paper to organize data stored on tags ...

Although construction has been known as a highly complex application field for autonomous robotic systems, recent advances in this field offer great hope for using robotic capabilities to develop automated construction. Today, space research agencies seek to build infrastructures without human intervention, and construction companies look to robots with the potential to improve construction qua...