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Brain-Inspired Spatio-Temporal Learning With Application To Robotics, Thiago André Ferreira Medeiros
Brain-Inspired Spatio-Temporal Learning With Application To Robotics, Thiago André Ferreira Medeiros
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The human brain still has many mysteries and one of them is how it encodes information. The following study intends to unravel at least one such mechanism. For this it will be demonstrated how a set of specialized neurons may use spatial and temporal information to encode information. These neurons, called Place Cells, become active when the animal enters a place in the environment, allowing it to build a cognitive map of the environment. In a recent paper by Scleidorovich et al. in 2022, it was demonstrated that it was possible to differentiate between two sequences of activations of a …
A Human-In-The-Loop Robot Grasping System With Grasp Quality Refinement, Tian Tan
A Human-In-The-Loop Robot Grasping System With Grasp Quality Refinement, Tian Tan
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The goal of this dissertation is to develop a grasping system for assistive robots that can help people with disabilities and the elderly to perform tasks of daily living. In developing this robot grasping system, we maximize its reliability, accuracy, and autonomy. High reliability and accuracy are required for robots to perform tasks around human users and to safely interact with objects that might be fragile or have contents that could spill. High autonomy is desired as users with disabilities are usually not dexterous enough to directly operate the robot. In this dissertation, a human-in-the-loop (HitL) robot grasping system is …
Process Automation And Robotics Engineering For Industrial Processing Systems, Drake Stimpson
Process Automation And Robotics Engineering For Industrial Processing Systems, Drake Stimpson
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Automation in industrial systems applications has emerged as the fundamental solution for improving quality, production rate, and efficiency of a process. Much of the recent popularity surrounding the transition of processes from manually operated tasks to automated systems can be attributed to the concept of Industry 4.0, which outlines the fundamental guidelines for integrating cyber-physical systems into industrial processes. Due to rapid advancement of technology in robotics and automation as well as the increase in accessibility of resources to this technology, the capability to develop automated systems has become feasible for small-scale enterprise. This work presents a two-part initiative to …