Developing An Effective And Efficient Real Time Strategy Agent For Use As A Computer Generated Force,
2010
Air Force Institute of Technology
Developing An Effective And Efficient Real Time Strategy Agent For Use As A Computer Generated Force, Kurt Weissgerber
Theses and Dissertations
Computer Generated Forces (CGF) are used to represent units or individuals in military training and constructive simulation. The use of CGF significantly reduces the time and money required for effective training. For CGF to be effective, they must behave as a human would in the same environment. Real Time Strategy (RTS) games place players in control of a large force whose goal is to defeat the opponent. The military setting of RTS games makes them an excellent platform for the development and testing of CGF. While there has been significant research in RTS agent development, most of the developed agents …
Thermal Robotic Arm Controlled Spraying Via Robotic Arm And Vision System,
2010
Technological University Dublin
Thermal Robotic Arm Controlled Spraying Via Robotic Arm And Vision System, Dermot Breen
Doctoral
The Tribology Surface Engineering industry is a worldwide multi billion euro industry with significant health and safety risks. The thermal spraying sector of this industry employs the technique of applying molten surface coating material to a substrate via a thermal spray process which is implemented either by manual spraying or pre-programmed robotic systems. The development of autonomous robotic systems for thermal spraying surface coating would significantly improve production and profitability over pre-programmed systems and improve health and safety over manual spraying. The aim of this research was to investigate and develop through software simulation, physical modelling and testing the development …
Detection And Filtering Of Landmark Occlusions Using Terrain Spatiograms,
2010
Fordham University
Detection And Filtering Of Landmark Occlusions Using Terrain Spatiograms, Damian M. Lyons
Posters
A team of robots cooperating to quickly produce a map needs to share landmark information between team members so that the local maps can be accurately merged. However, a landmark visible to one robot may be partially occluded to another! Terrain Spatiograms are a landmark representation in which the image spatial information relates to the scene rather than the image. This makes it possible to identify and filter potential landmark occlusions. We present an approach to identifying and filtering occlusions using Terrain Spatiograms, and we report experimental results on 20 landmark datasets for varying states of occlusion. We show that …
Synchronizing Real And Predicted Synthetic Video Imagery For Localization Of A Robot To A 3d Environment,
2010
Fordham University
Synchronizing Real And Predicted Synthetic Video Imagery For Localization Of A Robot To A 3d Environment, Damian M. Lyons, Sirhan Chaudhry, D. Paul Benjamin
Faculty Publications
A mobile robot moving in an environment in which there are other moving objects and active agents, some of which may represent threats and some of which may represent collaborators, needs to be able to reason about the potential future behaviors of those objects and agents. In previous work, we presented an approach to tracking targets with complex behavior, leveraging a 3D simulation engine to generate predicted imagery and comparing that against real imagery. We introduced an approach to compare real and simulated imagery using an affine image transformation that maps the real scene to the synthetic scene in a …
Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution And Conflict In The Twenty-First Century,
2010
Mississippi College School of Law
Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution And Conflict In The Twenty-First Century, Frank Rosenblatt
Journal Articles
Pity the librarian who receives a copy of P.W. Singer's Wired for War and must decide where to put it. Since the book wrestles with the changing nature of warfare, it could fit in with other books on war and military affairs. It may also belong in the science fiction section, since it is largely a tribute to the vision of science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov. Perhaps Wired for War should go alongside works by other futurist thinkers such as George Orwell and Freeman Dyson. Is it really an ethics book? A science text? Strong arguments could be …
E-Quality: Using Dimensional Index Values Towards Improving Classification Accuracy,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
E-Quality: Using Dimensional Index Values Towards Improving Classification Accuracy, Prashanth Devaram
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
E-quality is a process through which inspection of the process and quality of the part produced is done online resulting in the improvement of the process and reduction in the amount of time consumed for the overall process. Automated quality control involves using a methodology to classify the parts based on the dimensions of the features on a part. However, achieving 100% classification accuracy is not an easy task, especially in area of quality control where small differences in dimensions result in part fall into a different category. In this study, a novel approach for modifying the data before being …
Robotic Goal-Based Semi-Autonomous Algorithms Improve Remote Operator Performance,
2010
Wayne State University
Robotic Goal-Based Semi-Autonomous Algorithms Improve Remote Operator Performance, Shawn Hunt
Wayne State University Dissertations
The focus of this research was to determine if reliable goal-based semi-autonomous algorithms are able to improve remote operator performance or not. Two semi-autonomous algorithms were examined: visual servoing and visual dead reckoning. Visual servoing uses computer vision techniques to generate movement commands while using internal properties of the camera combined with sensor data that tell the robot its current position based on its previous position. This research shows that the semi-autonomous algorithms developed increased performance in a measurable way. An analysis of tracking algorithms for visual servoing was conducted and tracking algorithms were enhanced to make them as robust …
Augmented Reality Navigation Interfaces Improve Human Performance In End-Effector Controlled Telerobotics,
2010
Wayne State University
Augmented Reality Navigation Interfaces Improve Human Performance In End-Effector Controlled Telerobotics, Keshav Chintamani
Wayne State University Dissertations
On the International Space Station (ISS) and space shuttles, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used robotic manipulators extensively to perform payload handling and maintenance tasks. Teleoperating robots require expert skills and optimal performance is crucial to mission completion and crew safety. Degradation in performance is observed when manual control is mediated through remote camera views, resulting in poor end-effector navigation quality and extended task completion times. This thesis explores the application of three-dimensional augmented reality (AR) interfaces specifically designed to improve human performance during end-effector controlled teleoperations. A modular telerobotic test bed was developed for this purpose …
