Building a basketball robot is a recently launched project at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering (LSR) for investigating fast manipulation with non-negligible dynamics and changing contact situation. This video presents some preliminary results of the project which is balancing a basketball on a plate. An aluminium plate of which the size is 25 × 40 cm is mounted on the end-effector...

We describe the developed hardware concepts and set-up of the Neuroinformatics robot laboratory. It provides part of the infrastructure for the SFB-360 project D4 “Multisensor Based Exploration and Manipulation” (Additional facilities for this project are contributed by the working group of Prof. Alois Knoll and will be described elsewhere). Central part of the described hardware infrastructure...

In haptic-feedback teleoperation, the operator experiences forces and torques applied to the slave manipulator. These forces, however, consist of two components: on the one hand, forces and torques due to environmental contact, and on the other hand, non-contact forces, i.e., inertial forces, centrifugal forces, Coriolis forces, and associated torques. For several reasons, eliminating these non...

adequate coverage is one of the main problems for distributed wireless sensor networks and the effectiveness of that highly depends on the sensor deployment scheme. given a finite number of sensors, optimizing the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and save power of sensors for movement to target location to adequate coverage. in this paper, we apply fuzzy logic system to...

wireless sensor networks (wsns) have many applications in the areas of commercial, military and environmental requirements. regarding the deployment of low cost sensor nodes with restricted energy resources, these networks face a lot of security challenges. a basic approach for preparing a secure wireless communication in wsns, is to propose an efficient cryptographic key management protocol be...