LOVOTICS refers to the research of human - robot relationship. The general idea of Lovotics is to... more LOVOTICS refers to the research of human - robot relationship. The general idea of Lovotics is to develop a robotic system which strives to achieve a high level of attachment between humans and robot by exploring human love. Such relationship is a contingent process of attraction, affection, and attachment from humans towards robots and the belief of the vice versa from robots to humans. The novel advanced artificial intelligence system of Lovotics includes an Artificial Endocrine System (AES), based on physiology of love, Probabilistic Love Assembly (PLA), based on psychology of love, and Affective State Transition (AST), based on emotions, modules. Lovotics is as multidisciplinary research field utilizing fundamental concepts from philosophy, psychology, biology, anthropology, neuroscience, social science, engineering, robotics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. Proposed engineering approach provides a system consisting of relevant modules allowing the development of functionalities based on multidisciplinary research yielding a new form of love relationships between robots and humans. www.lovotics.com
International Conference on Culture and Computing, 2013
In this study we have explored the concept of “Cultural Robotics” for the evolution of social to ... more In this study we have explored the concept of “Cultural Robotics” for the evolution of social to cultural Robots for contemporary society. By defining the concept of culture in computing, the potential creation of a culture between humans and robots is explored. Based on the cultural values of the robots creators and learning ability of the robots, cultural attributes in this regard are in the process of being formed which would define the new concept of cultural robotics. Considering the embodiment of the robots, influence of robots in communication culture is expected. Our investigation anticipates creation of different attributes of the culture between robots and humans in the near future.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference, Oct 29, 2014
A novel robot with the purpose of translation is presented in this paper. The proposed system con... more A novel robot with the purpose of translation is presented in this paper. The proposed system consists of a mobile robot which carries a smart phone that language translation APP, including audio, text and audio, is running on it. It also equipped with extra touch and voice sensors for input, micro controller for process and speaker and wheels for output. The proposed system is equipped with state flow mechanism, which is managed by an artificial endocrine system that employs the PID controller in order to navigate between interacting people. This robot provides an embodied system which could function as a robotic translator that navigates between interacting people and facilitates the communication.
Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Dec 1, 2013
An applicable paradigm motivated by the powerful computational capability in the emerging hardwar... more An applicable paradigm motivated by the powerful computational capability in the emerging hardware for embedded lens calibration is proposed in this paper. The proposed new paradigm for the relationship between the image provider and the image processor shows functional and economical merits. The paper first focuses on the development of the embedded lens calibrator. An underlying support vector machine based regression (SVR) is hence employed as the key to achieve the goal. Based on the structural risk minimization, the SVR, employed as the calibration regressor, simultaneously minimizes both the model complexity and empirical error, and creates an estimator with a wide margin. The wide margin in regression represents a smooth approximation function for the lens calibration in which variances commonly exist in the CMOS camera modules that can tolerably be eliminated. The variance tolerability provides high robustness for the calibration function and would conduct potential success of the proposed paradigm.
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015
Cognitive wireless sensor network (CWSN) is a combination of cognitive radio and wireless sensor ... more Cognitive wireless sensor network (CWSN) is a combination of cognitive radio and wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which can effectively solve spectrum resource scarcity problem in WSNs. As one of the key technologies in CWSNs, spectrum sensing enables sensors to detect and opportunistic access underutilized idle licensed bands, which remarkably improves the spectrum utilization and system performance. And cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) has emerged to enhance detection performance of spectrum sensing. Focusing on CSS schemes in CWSNs, this paper explores the cooperative and noncooperative schemes comprehensively. The characteristics of the existing CSS schemes are analyzed in CWSNs. And then, according to the behavior of cognitive sensors, CSS techniques are classified into noncooperative and cooperative schemes. Concentrating on energy consumption, cooperative CSS schemes are classified into three categories: censoring, clustering, and sensor selection. The performance of three kinds of CSS schemes is compared and analyzed thoroughly. Finally, the difficulties and challenges of CSS scheme are addressed in CWSNs.
In this paper a novel system is introduced as combination of state of the art in the field of wir... more In this paper a novel system is introduced as combination of state of the art in the field of wireless power transmission and mobile robotics. A mobile robot is equipped with wireless charger and navigates in the environment of various battery nodes in order to charge the network in an efficient way. The presented research in this paper illustrates design and development of real functional system with the aim to change the traditional way of carrying the battery to charger into navigating the charger to batteries. Even though some theoretical research on this field was available however the working prototype has been not developed yet hence we focused on the practical application and brought the concept into practice. We initiated the research by reviewing the existing wireless power transmission technologies and later on equipped mobile robots with QI standard compatible WPT. The complete prototype architecture from both the hardware and software aspects is presented in this paper. We believe such architecture can be a useful testbed for bringing such technology from theory to practice.
Control and self-localization of an omni-directional mobile robot
WSEAS Transactions on Systems and Control
Abstract Omni-directional mobile robots are becoming popular for many applications especially in ... more Abstract Omni-directional mobile robots are becoming popular for many applications especially in soccer playing robots. Effective control and self-localization of omni-directional mobile robots constitute important and challenging issues. In this work, a simplified model of the system has been derived for fast tuning of the control system parameters. In particular, strategies for fast tuning of PID/PD coefficients for position and orientation control are devised. A vision-based self-localization and the conventional odometry systems have ...
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the development process of a wireless charging robot a... more The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the development process of a wireless charging robot according to scenario based design approach. The robot is designed and examined for various usage scenarios. This work is within our research on wireless charging robot (WCR) where we are attempting to develop an advanced WCR, considering the example of various practical scenarios. In this research a novel system is introduced as combination of state of the art in the field of wireless power transmission and mobile robotics. Furthermore, the cultural influence and positive reaction of wireless charging robot with the survey result based on country sociological impact has been presented. A mobile robot is equipped with wireless charger and navigates in the environment of various battery nodes in order to charge the network in an efficient way. The presented research in this paper illustrates design and development of real functional system with the aim to change the traditional way of carrying the battery to charger into navigating the charger to batteries. Even though some theoretical research on this field was available however the working prototype has been not developed yet hence we focused on the practical application and brought the concept into practice. We initiated the research by reviewing the existing wireless power transmission technologies and later on equipped mobile robots with QI standard compatible WPT. The complete prototype architecture from both the hardware and software aspects is presented in this paper. Moreover, further future design concepts presented based on the aspects of user location. We believe such architecture can be a useful testbed for bringing such technology from theory to practice. The focus of this paper is to show how cultural robotics aspects can influence the engineering design of a novel robotic platform where the cultural aspect is considered during the design process instead of developing the system first and adopting it in various usages afterwards.
In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of social interfaces as a new form of media to conn... more In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of social interfaces as a new form of media to connect humans in the physical world by means of the virtual world by providing "caring com-munication." We propose hugging and loving communication interfaces as well as conceptual frameworks for reinforcing advantages of the tactile sense of the skin to exchange feelings in a remote caring communication. The hugging communication interface provides physical inter-action in a remote communication between humans by enabling to hug one another through a hugging input device and a wearable hug reproducing jacket. In this interface, we have examined the human brain activity when using computer mediated touch devices compared with real physical touch. The objective is to prove that a computer mediated touch can pro-duce a similar affective response on humans relative to a real physical touch. The loving communication interface aims to develop the functionalities yielding a new form of ...
Eighth International Symposium on Precision Engineering Measurement and Instrumentation, 2013
An applicable paradigm motivated by the powerful computational capability in the emerging hardwar... more An applicable paradigm motivated by the powerful computational capability in the emerging hardware for embedded lens calibration is proposed in this paper. The proposed new paradigm for the relationship between the image provider and the image processor shows functional and economical merits. The paper first focuses on the development of the embedded lens calibrator. An underlying support vector machine based regression (SVR) is hence employed as the key to achieve the goal. Based on the structural risk minimization, the SVR, employed as the calibration regressor, simultaneously minimizes both the model complexity and empirical error, and creates an estimator with a wide margin. The wide margin in regression represents a smooth approximation function for the lens calibration in which variances commonly exist in the CMOS camera modules that can tolerably be eliminated. The variance tolerability provides high robustness for the calibration function and would conduct potential success of the proposed paradigm.
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