Title of dissertation: CONTROL OF NETWORKED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS Yen-Chen Liu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Nikhil Chopra Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research With the infrastructure of ubiquitous networks around the world, the study of robotic systems over communication networks has attracted widespread attention. This area is den...

stroke is one of the most common diseases among the elderly with high personal and societal costs. in recent years, robotic rehabilitation for stroke has become an active area of research for assistance, monitoring and qualifying the rehabilitation treatments. the key issue needed for improving rehabilitation system is that patient feedback should be taken into account by the robotic rehabilita...

Testing activity applied to mobile robotic systems is a challenge because new features, such as non-determinism of inputs, communication among components and time constraints must be considered. Simulation has been used to support the development and validation of these systems. Coverage testing criteria can contribute to this scenario adding mechanisms for measuring quality during the developm...

In vision-guided robotic operations, vision is used for extracting necessary information for achieving the task. Since visual sensing is usually performed with limited resources, visual sensing strategies should be planned so that only necessary information is obtained e ciently. This paper describes a method of systematically generating visual sensing strategies based on knowledge of the task ...

Recent years have seen a rapid development of the Internet Things (IoT) and growth autonomous robotic applications which are using network communications. Accordingly, an increasing advancement intelligent devices with wireless sensors (that means platforms) operating in challenging environments makes robots tangible reality near future. Unfortunately, as result technical development, security ...