Denoising of human motion data for a 3D gesture recognition system for a two-wheeled inverted pendulum robot
Falling is a big issue among elderly, and prevention of falling is of big importance both for the individual and for society at large. In this paper we present a pilot study with fun exergaming equipment in private homes. The initial findings in the small pilot study suggests that this kind of training makes the elderly train more than they normally do, and they continue to find the training fun for up to 70 training times. Such motivation to train this much is important to understand, since studies of elderly people's barriers to exercises indicate that motivation can be one of the very common barriers. Further, the paper describes how future research within the field will be structured.
At large-scale urban earthquake disaster, the human search and the information collection are the most important process of rescue activities. This research develops the balloon-cable driven robot for information acquisition from sky at crushed structures at landslide caused by huge earthquake. The balloon, which hangs up several sensors (sensor unit, SU), uses "a natural shape balloon". Three cables are connected to the SU, and the balloon with sensors is driven by expansion and contraction of the cables length. Moreover, we propose the human search system by electromagnetic waves. Recently, a lot of people have cellphones or mobile devices. Our proposing search system is the position of a human body using this robot with the electromagnetic waves coming from the direction finder (ESPAR antenna). This paper describes the usefulness of the human body searching strategy by several experimental results
As the complexity of the missions to be performed by mechatronic systems grows, so does the amount of embedded software to be produced and the number of involved specialists. System complexity management and software integration become more important. In this paper, we present an initial implementation of a real-time capable software framework for complex mechatronic systems that facilitates embedded software development and integration. The framework also promotes software components reuse across applications, architecture reuse and software portability across hardware platforms. To illustrate the proposed solution, we present two applications of the framework: an autonomous indoor navigation system for mobile robots and a driver assistance system for smart cars
This paper introduces a multi-limbed walling robot, capable of vertical climbing, named RIDES (Remote Infrastructure Delivery & Entry System). An overview of the mechanical, electrical, and control architecture will be presented along with the current, results. The primary mission of the robot is aimed at search and rescue operations in urban/industrial environments. It is anticipated that a large degree of dexterity is required to tackle complex indoor and outdoor terrains as well as decaying urban/industrial settings. As such, a novel mechanism. and controller have been designed to address this need.
