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Implementación De Un Robot Armable Para El Desarrollo De Habilidades Motrices Fina, Ana María Moreno Salgado

Ingeniería en Automatización

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How Can We Build A Moral Robot?, Kristen E. Clark

Capstones

Artificial intelligence is already starting to drive our cars and make choices that affect the world economy. One day soon, we’ll have robots that can take care of our sick and elderly, and even rescue us in rescue us in emergencies. But as robots start to make decisions that matter—it’s raising questions that go far beyond engineering. We’re stating to think about ethics.

Bertram Malle and Matthias Scheutz are part of a team funded by the department of defense. It's their job to answer a question that seems straight out of a sci-fi novel: How can we build a moral …

Computer-Based Stereoscopic Parts Recognition For Robotic Applications, Ahmad A. Fayed

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Most of robotic handling and assembly operations are based on sensors such as range and touch sensors. In certain circumstances, such as in the presence of ionizing radiation where most customary sensors will degrade over time due to radiation exposure, these sensors won't function properly. Utilizing two or more cameras (stereo vision) located outside the target zone and analyzing their images to identify location and dimensions of parts within the robot workspace is an alternative for using sensors. Object Recognition is affected by the light condition which oftentimes causes the gray-scale or red, green, and blue values to have a …

Reducing Communication Delay Variability For A Group Of Robots, Goncalo Martins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A novel architecture is presented for reducing communication delay variability for a group of robots. This architecture relies on using three components: a microprocessor architecture that allows deterministic real-time tasks; an event-based communication protocol in which nodes transmit in a TDMA fashion, without the need of global clock synchronization techniques; and a novel communication scheme that enables deterministic communications by allowing senders to transmit without regard for the state of the medium or coordination with other senders, and receivers can tease apart messages sent simultaneously with a high probability of success. This approach compared to others, allows simultaneous communications without …

I Am The Robot. Are You?, Rachel Michelle Feldman

Honors Theses

I was originally inspired by a previous project in a 3D modeling class. For my final project, I designed two robots; male and female; who’s naked bodied reflected the presence of technological communications in society and lack of face-to-face interactions. I displayed the robots in a variety of sexual positions, which appear cute or sweet to the viewer because of the toon-shader effect. The toon-shader effect makes the 3D models look like cartoons. I loved combining the idea of technology, robotics, and sex into one. To this day, the poster of the robots in my room always gets a response. …

Robotic Manufacturing Cell: An Analysis Of Variables Affecting Performance, Elvis Alicic

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Analyzing the performance of manufacturing cells is a well established concept. The justification for conducting thorough analyses of manufacturing cells comes from the known advantages it can provide, including performance improvement and production planning improvement, both current and future. This study focuses on assessing the variables affecting performance of a robotic manufacturing cell through the measure of throughput. Initially, simulation modeling is utilized to model an existing robotic cell and compare the output to actual production output from the same cell. Additionally, general regression modeling is employed to analyze the following variables and their effect on throughput: machine downtime, off-plan …

Monocular Vision And Image Correlation To Accomplish Autonomous Localization, Matthew Paul Schlachtman

Master's Theses

For autonomous navigation, robots and vehicles must have accurate estimates of their current state (i.e. location and orientation) within an inertial coordinate frame. If a map is given a priori, the process of determining this state is known as localization. When operating in the outdoors, localization is often assumed to be a solved problem when GPS measurements are available. However, in urban canyons and other areas where GPS accuracy is decreased, additional techniques with other sensors and filtering are required.

This thesis aims to provide one such technique based on monocular vision. First, the system requires a map be generated, …

Diseño, Modelamiento Y Simulación 3d De Un Robot Móvil Para Exploración De Terrenos, Nasly Carolina Pérez Pérez, Diego Arturo Salamanca Avellaneda

Ingeniería en Automatización

Desde la invención y lanzamiento de las tecnologías informáticas, la vida de la ingeniería y todas sus ramas, cambio revolucionariamente, los complementos de software de hoy día, permiten realizar el análisis completo del comportamiento de los sistemas. Los sectores a los que actualmente está orientada la robótica son amplios, empezando en la industria manufacturera (automóvil y máquinas herramientas), hasta la exploración de ambientes hostiles tales como entornos submarinos y espaciales; estos robots deben ser capaces de desplazarse de forma precisa en entornos no estructurados (desconocidos) 1 . En este proyecto se propone el diseño estático y dinámico de un robot …

Diseño Y Modelamiento De Un Robot Cartesiano Para El Posicionamiento De Piezas, Rubén Darío Godoy Hernández, Willy Rodríguez Quintero

Ingeniería en Automatización

En el presente proyecto se realiza el diseño y modelamiento de un robot cartesiano para el posicionamiento de piezas en el módulo de almacenamiento del laboratorio de automatización y robótica. Se recuperan, manipulan y almacenan forma automática las piezas del CIM. El robot consta de tres grados de libertad, cada articulación es prismática, el desplazamiento en el eje X es por medio de una correa dentada conectada a un motor paso a paso. Para el desplazamiento en el eje Z se utiliza un tornillo de bolas el cual se moverá por un motor paso a paso. Para la ubicación de …