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The aim of a soccer game is to score more goals than the opponent does. The chances of doing so increase when all the own players are continuously present on the field. In the RoboCup Standard Platform League (SPL), the only reasons for players not to participate in a game are that they either have been penalized or they have not been ready for the match in the first place. This paper presents ...

This paper describes the development of a practical manipulator system. The manipulator requirements dictated by space exploration, the functional elements which meet those require­ ments, and the problems encountered in imple­ menting those requirements are discussed. The paper focuses primarily on the implemen­ tation of the functional elements and the real world problems encountered by the m...

This paper deals with the driving environment perception of cybercars from a vision system. The planification of the trajectory for an Autonomous Guided Vehicle requires to robustly segment the free space around the vehicle to manage an obstacle avoidance task. Opposite to the highways conditions, the urban environment still remains as the most complex environment due to the static scene can no...

The robot soccer game based complex motion control has been widely studied for the moving object capture and shooting. A position prediction algorithm based on global vision is introduced in order to improve the accuracy and robustness of the vision system for tracking moving objects, including a Kalmanfiter, a dynamic window and an obstacle avoidance strategy. This paper deals with the positon...

This paper examines the role of the human driver as the primary control element within the traditional driver-vehicle system. Lateral and longitudinal control tasks such as path-following, obstacle avoidance, and headway control are examples of steering and braking activities performed by the human driver. Physical limitations as well as various attributes that make the human driver unique and ...

An obstacle avoidance approach is introduced that has dynamic active regions. The dynamic regions are adapted to the current speed of the robot and there are different active regions used, one for speed reduction and one of turning away from obstacles. The overall strategy of this approach is that the robot can drive with high speed which will be reduced in front of an obstacle in order to do a...

In this paper, we propose a novel type of serial robot with minimal actuation. The robot is a serial rigid structure consisting of multiple links connected by passive joints and of movable actuators. The novelty of this robot is that the actuators travel over the links to a given joint and adjust the relative angle between the two adjacent links. The joints passively preserve their angles until...

Results. Using an attentional allocation index (AAI) to compare performance of healthy young and older adults and to measure the flexibility of allocation of attention, results showed a tendency in older adults toward a decreased ability to flexibly allocate their attention between the two tasks, with small AAI values. The decreased ability to allocate attention in older adults was found to be ...