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The Role Of Shopping Orientations And Intrinsic Experiential Value In Consumer's Willingness To Follow Embodied-Ai's Advice In Fashion Shoe Stores, Christina Soyoung Song, Ji Young Lee, Dooyoung Choi

STEMPS Faculty Publications

This study employs a synthesis of Intrinsic Motivation Theory with three shopping orientations, namely “adventure,” “idea,” and “personalized” shopping, in order to examine their potential influence on individuals' motivation towards shopping. We proposed that consumers’ experiential value of intrinsic enjoyment is an indispensable mediator that affects their willingness to follow EAI’s advice. The study offers novel insights into the way that consumers’ characteristics of influencing others’ clothing consumption affect their shopping motivations to find adventure and stimulation, keep up with new fashion trends and products information, and their preference to patronize stores and interact with store staff on a personal …

Programming An Autonomous Robot, Maxwell Brueggeman

Honors College Theses

Ravaged by hurricanes, Florida needed help restoring its natural beauty and returning its wildlife to their homes. This was the task for the IEEE SoutheastCon 2023 Hardware Competition. Florida’s restoration was simulated by returning various ducks and pillars that lay strewn across a game board to their proper places. Ducks needed to return to their pond, pillars needed to be stacked to create statues, and food needed to be placed in the manatee and alligator aquariums. Competing teams were challenged to create an autonomous robot capable of performing these tasks. During the first semester, sensor selection was tackled. Research was …

The Symptom Of Ethics: Rethinking Ethics In The Face Of The Machine, David J. Gunkel

Human-Machine Communication

This essay argues that it is the machine that constitutes the symptom of ethics— “symptom” understood as that excluded “part that has no part” in the system of moral consideration. Ethics, which has been historically organized around a human or at least biological subject, needs the machine to define the proper limits of the moral community even if it simultaneously excludes such mechanisms from any serious claim on moral consideration. The argument will proceed in five steps or movements. The first part will define and characterize “the symptom” as it has been operationalized in the work of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj …

Robot Learning From Human Observation Using Deep Neural Networks, Michael Elachkar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Industrial robots have gained traction in the last twenty years and have become an integral component in any sector empowering automation. Specifically, the automotive industry implements a wide range of industrial robots in a multitude of assembly lines worldwide. These robots perform tasks with the utmost level of repeatability and incomparable speed. It is that speed and consistency that has always made the robotic task an upgrade over the same task completed by a human. The cost savings is a great return on investment causing corporations to automate and deploy robotic solutions wherever feasible.

The cost to commission and set …

Compensation Sliding Cross Coupling Control Research Of Cartesian Coordinate Robot, Wang Wei, Zhimei Chen, Zhenyan Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: For a typical Cartesian coordinate robot controls precision is low, based on a single-axis mathematical model, a contour error model for a typical robot whose axes are orthogonal to each other is established. An improved double-power approach law is used to design a terminal sliding mode controller to improve the robot. The integral compensation terms are added to stably compensate the position accuracy of each axis to improve the overall trajectory tracking accuracy, and the cross-coupling control between the axes is used to eliminate the contour error between the axes. It not only weakens the chattering of traditional sliding …

Traversal Path Planning And Simulation Of Robot Based On Radiation Scanning, Bin Lin, Guanghui Han, Chenchen Song, Yajing Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the high repetition rate and many turns of robot paths based on BINN algorithm, an ITPPA combining the template model and the RS algorithm is proposed. The BINN algorithm is used to formulate the non-obstacle walking strategy. Multiple obstacle avoidance path templates are designed to ensure that the robot could avoid obstacles in an orderly manner. RS algorithm is used to guide the robot to escape the dead zone quickly. Simulation results show that, compared with BINN algorithm, ITPPA could not only effectively reduce the path repetition rate and the number of turning and energy consumption …

Law Library Blog (November 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Visual Feedback Fuzzy Control For A Robot Manipulator Based On Svr Learning, Xianxia Zhang, Jinqiang Zhang, Zhiyuan Li, Shiwei Ma, Banghua Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A fuzzy controller based on SVR learning is proposed for uncalibrated robot visual servoing. In this paper, a fuzzy controller is used to directly construct the nonlinear mapping between image features and robot joint motion. The fuzzy basis function of the fuzzy controller is taken as the kernel function of an SVR and the equivalent relationship between the SVR and the fuzzy controller is established. The learned support vector from the SVR is used as the rule of the fuzzy controller. Since all rules are learned from the data, there is no need to manually design the rules. …

Do You Feel Me?: Learning Language From Humans With Robot Emotional Displays, David Mcneill

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

In working towards accomplishing a human-level acquisition and understanding of language, a robot must meet two requirements: the ability to learn words from interactions with its physical environment, and the ability to learn language from people in settings for language use, such as spoken dialogue. The second requirement poses a problem: If a robot is capable of asking a human teacher well-formed questions, it will lead the teacher to provide responses that are too advanced for a robot, which requires simple inputs and feedback to build word-level comprehension.

In a live interactive study, we tested the hypothesis that emotional displays …

Brian Valdez - Dynamics And Control Of A 3-Dof Manipulator With Deep Learning Feedback, Brian Orlando Valdez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

With the ever-increasing demands in the space domain and accessibility to low-cost small satellite platforms for educational and scientific projects, efforts are being made in various technology capacities including robotics and artificial intelligence in microgravity. The MIRO Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research (cSETR) prepares the development of their second nanosatellite to launch to space and it is with that opportunity that a 3-DOF robotic arm is in development to be one of the payloads in the nanosatellite. Analyses, hardware implementation, and testing demonstrate a potential positive outcome from including the payload in the nanosatellite and a deep learning …

Module: Robot Senses, Mohammad Azhar

Open Educational Resources

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to:

• Describe the basics of Sensors

• Learn how to program the LEGO Robot to make decision using touch sensors

Module: Robot Locomotion Mini Hackathon, Mohammad Azhar

Open Educational Resources

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to:

• Describe the basics of Robots.

• Describe basic hardware and software of the LEGO Robot.

• Write sequential code for LEGO Robot to move.

Uncalibrated Visual Servoing Based On Kalman Filter Optimized By Spsa, Jinqiang Zhang, Xianxia Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Considering the problem of robot uncalibrated visual servoing, this paper presents a method for online estimation of image Jacobian matrix based on Kalman filter optimized by simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation algorithm. This method takes the robot image Jacobian matrix as the system state, and uses Kalman filter to observe the system state. In order to improve the performance of the filter, the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation algorithm is used to optimize the filter parameters. This method is used to estimate the image Jacobian matrix and to design the control strategy, which can avoid complicated system calibration process. The simulation …

A Better Way To Construct Tensegrities: Planar Embeddings Inform Tensegrity Assembly, Elizabeth Anne Ricci

Honors Theses

Although seemingly simple, tensegrity structures are complex in nature which makes them both ideal for use in robotics and difficult to construct. We work to develop a protocol for constructing tensegrities more easily. We consider attaching a tensegrity's springs to the appropriate locations on some planar arrangement of attached struts. Once all of the elements of the structure are connected, we release the struts and allow the tensegrity to find its equilibrium position. This will allow for more rapid tensegrity construction. We develop a black-box that given some tensegrity returns a flat-pack, or the information needed to perform this physical …

Investigating Trust And Trust Recovery In Human-Robot Interactions, Abigail L. Thomson

Celebration of Learning

As artificial intelligence and robotics continue to advance and be used in increasingly different functions and situations, it is important to look at how these new technologies will be used. An important factor in how a new resource will be used is how much it is trusted. This experiment was conducted to examine people’s trust in a robotic assistant when completing a task, how mistakes affect this trust, and if the levels of trust exhibited with a robot assistant were significantly different than if the assistant were human. The task was to watch a computer simulation of the three-cup monte …

Cooperative 3-D Map Generation Using Multiple Uavs, Andrew Erik Lawson

University Scholar Projects

This report aims to demonstrate the feasibility of building a global 3-D map from multiple UAV robots in a GPS-denied, indoor environment. Presented are the design of each robot and the reasoning behind choosing its hardware and software components, the process in which a single robot obtains a individual 3-D map entirely onboard, and lastly how the mapping concept is extended to multiple robotic agents to form a global 3-D map using a centralized server. In the latter section, this report focuses on two algorithms, Online Mapping and Map Fusion, developed to facilitate the cooperative approach. A limited selection …

An Intelligent Agent For A Vacuum Cleaner, Dr. Muhammad Zubair Asghar

Dr. Muhammad Zubair Asghar

This paper introduces an Intelligent agent for the vacuum cleaner named as VROBO. Objectives of this work are to prepare a pedagogical device for Artificial Intelligence students and to practically implement the Artificial Intelligent Technology in real world problems to enhance the physical capabilities of human being. Most of the significant Intelligent Agent’s attributes like; Goals, Perception, Autonomy and Action, may be found in this agent. Two options are given for the implementation of proposed setup i.e. Screen oriented simulation developed in java and Java API for “real” robotic simulation using LEGO Mindstorms robots developed by Frank and Scott. Home …

A Philosophical Critique Of Artificial Intelligence, David Miller

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The term "Artificial Intelligence" creates fantastic images of robots and omniscient machines. Of all the technological pursuits, Artificial Intelligence best epitomizes man's thirst for technology. The science of making machines think stands at the apex of man's mission, reflecting not only his desire for control over his world but also his quest to control himself. To create a machine capable of thought -- rational life -- would mean that man would have achieved a dream as old as technology itself.