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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics

2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)

DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO42956.2017

5-8 Dec. 2017

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The proceedings of this conference will be available for purchase through Curran Associates.

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In this paper, we present a soft earthworm robot with a hydrostatic skeleton, i.e., fluid-filled body surrounded by muscles, which is similar to that found in a real earthworm. The robot consists of two viscoelastic silicone rubber segments that mimic a constant-volume hydrostatic skeleton, and is capable of peristaltic locomotion using axial and radial deformation of the soft hydrostatic segments...Show More
Inspired from flexible bending of octopus' tentacles and outside-driving kind of traditional hand exoskeletons, this paper proposes a novel self-adaptive underactuated multi-fingered hand (OS Hand), which has four flexible tentacles. Each tentacle is similar to an octopus' tentacle, and consists of an artificial muscle which goes through all joints, eight serial-hinged joints, and force-changeable...Show More
For investigating the movement of living organisms, we can use a bio-machine hybrid system that replaces a part of a living body with a machine. This study focuses on frogs and their swimming behavior using the legs, and develops a frog cyborg driven by biological muscles of the frog. For realizing the frog cyborg, one of the most difficult challenge is how to package the muscle so that we can use...Show More
Origami has long been renowned as a simple yet creative form of art and its folding techniques have recently inspired advances in design and fabrication of miniature robots. In this work, we present the design and fabrication novelties, enhancements, and performance improvements on MinIAQ (Miniature Independently Actuated-legged Quadruped), an origami-inspired, foldable, miniature quadruped robot ...Show More
C-Quad is an origami-inspired, foldable, miniature robot whose legs and body are all machined from one PET sheet each. The already famous compliant legs are modified such that they can be manufactured from a flat PET sheet and folded into the C-shape wanted. The compliant legs enable the miniature robot to run fast and scale obstacles with ease due to the geometry of the legs. C-Quad has four legs...Show More
Takeoff is the start of flying. Self-takeoff of flapping-wing robots can improve their practical values in large area surveillance, search and rescue, etc. However, self-takeoff for this kind of robots is still a challenging problem. Inspired by the takeoff of birds and insects assisted by their legs and feet pushing the ground during taking off, this work presents the conceptual design of a jumpi...Show More
Frontalization typically represents the process of generating frontal views of faces from single unconstrained images. Previous researches have suggested that face frontalization may considerably improve the performance of current face recognition systems in the wild. While many frontalization methods focuses on 3D reconstruction, approximating facial surface for each input image could be a hard p...Show More
Robots will be a part of our society in the future. They are expected to interact and collaborate with humans in daily life and production, which requires robots capable of adapting dynamical scenarios in real time. In this paper, we propose a real-time approach to generate safe motion of a robot when interacting with a human. Based on the concepts of dynamical system (DS) and artificial potential...Show More
Scene modelling is of great importance for robots in unknown environments. Existing Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Visual SLAM) approaches are able to build impressive scene models using RGB-D cameras in static scenes. In dynamic scenes, however, moving objects can be recorded as spurious objects, which contaminates the resulting scene models. In order to build clear scene models, w...Show More
Drone delivery system has been a popular research topic and various systems have been tested. However, in the case of providing direct service to human like a drones delivery, it should be able to cope with problems that may arise in a urban area where abundance of obstacles that can affect the communication ability of the drones. The nature of drone delivery system requires the drone to lower it'...Show More
The accuracy of a trained pedestrian detector is always decreased in a new scenario, if the distributions of the samples in the testing and training scenarios are different. Traditional methods solve this problem based on domain adaption techniques. Unfortunately, most of existing methods need to keep source samples or label target samples in the detection phase. Therefore, they are hard to be app...Show More
In this paper, we propose an illumination-invariant nonparametric model for urban road detection based on a monocular camera and a single-line lidar. With the monocular camera, we can accurately locate road vanishing point after removing the adverse shadowy effect by an illumination-invariant image representation. With the constraint of detected vanishing point, we propose a Dijkstra method to com...Show More
This paper introduces a new approach to estimate stability of robot in rugged terrain and presents an algorithm to make robot achieve self-balance automatically. In consideration of the terrain is unknown and uncertain, it will be effective to keep robot in a better stable state to meet the challenges of terrain. We define a new parameter, stability angle, to describe the stable state of robot. By...Show More
This paper provides a distributed algorithm for mobile robotic sensors to have a self-deployment in a three-dimensional area to reach the complete blanket coverage. The area with obstacles is arbitrary and unknown. Mobile sensors have limited sensing ranges and communication range. They move in order through a grid pattern to reach a complete coverage. The algorithm sets a reference point. Then th...Show More
The RoboCup Middle Size League (MSL) robot soccer competition is a standard test platform for distributed multi-robot systems. There are many challenges in the vision system for MSL soccer robots. For example, huge amount of data from the Kinect v2 sensor leads to heavy computation burden for the robot's onboard industrial computer, the obstacle-detection algorithm is mainly dependent on the obsta...Show More
This paper deals with the estimation of power consumption for an unmanned road vehicle, according to the degree of steerability, the degree of redundancy and the path curvature changes. Thus, the main dynamic behaviors inducing directly or indirectly the power consumption for an autonomous road vehicle are considered for uniform and uniformly variable motions less than 15km/h. A comparison between...Show More
Efficient and real time segmentation of color images has a variety of importance in many fields of computer vision such as image compression, medical imaging, mapping and autonomous navigation. Being one of the most computationally expensive operation, it is usually done through software implementation using high-performance processors. In robotic systems, however, with the constrained platform di...Show More
Multi-robot terrain coverage approaches that are based on Voronoi partitioning produce unbalanced partitions of the workspace resulting in uneven distribution of the workload to the individual robots. The proposed approach creates partitions of the workspace such that the regions to be covered by individual robots are maximally balanced. This type of partitioning can be especially useful in tasks ...Show More
Pectoral fins of manta rays have been a great source of inspiration for propulsive mechanism of underwater vehicles in the last decade. In the existing literature, effects of the chordwise flexibility of these fins on the forward thrust generation has been widely studied, while the study on the spanwise flexibility is considerably lacking. In this paper, we aim to investigate the effects of the fi...Show More

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Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2017 IEEE International Conference on