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IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA)
ISSN : 20894856     EISSN : 27222586     DOI : -
Core Subject : Engineering,
Robots are becoming part of people's everyday social lives and will increasingly become so. In future years, robots may become caretaker assistants for the elderly, or academic tutors for our children, or medical assistants, day care assistants, or psychological counselors. Robots may become our co-workers in factories and offices, or maids in our homes. The IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) is providing a platform to researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to publish the latest achievement, future challenges and exciting applications of intelligent and autonomous robots. IJRA is aiming to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. Its scope includes (but not limited) to the following: automation control, automation engineering, autonomous robots, biotechnology and robotics, emergence of the thinking machine, forward kinematics, household robots and automation, inverse kinematics, Jacobian and singularities, methods for teaching robots, nanotechnology and robotics (nanobots), orientation matrices, robot controller, robot structure and workspace, robotic and automation software development, robotic exploration, robotic surgery, robotic surgical procedures, robotic welding, robotics applications, robotics programming, robotics technologies, robots society and ethics, software and hardware designing for robots, spatial transformations, trajectory generation, unmanned (robotic) vehicles, etc.
Articles 470 Documents
Modeling and Simulation of Hexapod Kinematics with Central Pattern Generator Aju M.T.
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 5, No 2: June 2016
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (541.673 KB) | DOI: 10.11591/ijra.v5i2.pp72-86

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The revealed secrets of nature always led humans to their aspiring achievements. The fastest animal on land is Cheetah and similar robot has developed by engineers so far to attain a record speed of 20mph among legged robots. But in nature there are some insects those are far ahead of cheetah in speed with a unit of body length per second. Insects are small in their body size with legs usually countable from 4 to 12 or more. With more legs they can have more stability and can adapt to different terrain faster while walking. Six legged robot (hexapod) is generally expect to attain higher speed in terms of body length per second, since the nature has proof for it. Bio-inspired Central Pattern Generator (CPG) is in use for so far in robotic world to mimic the locomotion patterns of insects and other animals. Currently the hybrid controller of CPG and reflex is going on and this paper suggests a new architecture for the system. Neural Network modeled CPG acts as the motor neuron for each joint of the leg. In each instant a neural network models the gait of the robot by learning procedure from the reflex system. This is like the Central Nervous System (CNS) selecting gait of an animal according to the terrain that travels. CNS takes sensory feedback from eyes, force on each leg and body balance from cochlea to adapt the gait for current terrain. This paper in first place tries to simulate the gait patterns for a hexapod.
Networked Service Robots Control and Synchronization with Surveillance System Assistance Doug Kim
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 6, No 2: June 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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This paper proposes an efficient navigation control and synchronization mechanism of multiple networked robots for operation in large confined areas. An adaptable grid based navigation and control strategy is adopted to eliminate potential collisions among robots. Unexpected obstacles are handled and the speed of individual robot is maintained using the node-ordering technique. The proposed navigation control and synchronization mechanism is scalable and can be easily extended for multi-cell large environment. The obstacles information is gathered through local information by the robots for better planning of the navigation. The system collaborates with the existing surveillance systems in case of additional visual information is necessary. The interaction with the surveillance system is minimized to reduce potential overhead. The proposed methodology is evaluated for a large-scale simulation with multiple robots.
Improved Line Tracking System for Autonomous Navigation of High-Speed Vehicle Yahya Zare Khafri; Ali Jahanian
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 1, No 3: September 2012
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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Line tracking navigation is one of the most widely techniques used in the robot navigation. In this paper, a customized line tracking system is proposed for autonomous navigation of high speed vehicles. In the presented system, auxiliary information -in addition to the road path- is added to the tracking lines such as locations of turn and intersections in the real roads. Moreover, the geometric position of line sensors is re-designed enables the high rate sensing with higher reliability. Finally, a light-weight navigation algorithm is proposed allow the high-speed movement using a reasonable processing power. This system is implemented on a MIPS-based embedded processor and experimental results with this embedded system show more than 98% accuracy at 200km/h with a 1GHz processor is viable.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijra.v1i3.766
Programmable Automation Controller Mechatronic Experiment Thomas Gross; Kevin Anderson; Nolan Tsuchiya
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 6, No 1: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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This paper describes the use of the OPTO-22 Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) Learning center in the undergraduate control systems course at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). The OPTO-22 PAC System is an integrated system of hardware and software used for industrial control, remote monitoring, and data acquisition applications. The paper compares the pros and cons of using a PAC versus Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) or Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) systems. The paper introduces the flowchart based programming environment used in PACs. The paper includes an illustrative example of how the OPTO-22 PAC system can be interfaced to an industrial based Mechatronics pick-and-place robot station. This example details the input/output interfaces of the OPTO-22 PAC unit and the SUN Equipment Mecahtronics pick and place robot unit. Details of the flow chart programming and I/O interfacing protocols are given in the paper. The I/O configuration dialog in the OPTO-22 PAC development environment are also presented in this paper.
Behavior-Based Approach for the Detection of Land Mines Utilizing off the Shelf Low Cost Autonomous Robot Abdel Ilah Nour Alshbatat
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 2, No 3: September 2013
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (634.467 KB) | DOI: 10.11591/ijra.v2i3.pp83-92

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Several countries all of the world are affected by landmines. The presence of mines represents a major threat to lives and causes economic problems. Currently, detecting and clearing mines demand specific expertise with special equipment. In this context, this paper offers the design and development of an intelligent controller which can control and enable the robot to detect mines by means of sensors and of processing the fused information to guide soldiers when passing landmines.  This is accomplished by broken down the overall system into two subsystems: sensor technologies and robotic device. Sensors devices include infrared distance sensor, metal detector, ultrasonic range finder, accelerometer sensor, while the structure of the robot in our case consists mainly  of a commercial  off-the-shelf  parts which  are  available  at  low  costs. The proposed controller is mainly based on creating fuzzy rules that reflect the behaviors of soldier beings in controlling a robot in a well known landmine. Simulation and experimental results are presented her to prove the efficiency of the proposed approach. The results show that the system is able to detect landmines and guide soldiers while crossing mines area.
Investigation of Formation Control Approaches Considering the Ability of a Mobile Robot Hannes Wind; Oliver Sawodny; Thomas Br•aunl
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 7, No 1: March 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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This work investigates and compares various formation control approaches for mobile robots. A comprehensive literature review was conducted, with particular focus on the approaches' applicability to be implemented on real mobile robots with limited hard and software capabilities. A realistic model of mobile robots is introduced and its parameters are identi ed with measurements from actual mo-bile robots. Later on, the model is extended and used within simulation studies of the various investigated approaches. A collision avoidance controller based on a formation controller is proposed and simulations are carried out. Experiments on real mobile robots are conducted for two formation controllers and for the pro-posed collision avoidance controller. It is shown that if the requirements resulting from the simulation studies are satis ed, an implementation on the real robots is possible.
Bilateral Teleoperation of Wheeled Mobile Robots Working in Common Workspace Lorinc Marton Marton; Zoltan Szanto; Piroska Haller; Hunor Sandor; Tamas Szabo; Tamas Vajda
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 3, No 1: March 2014
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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This paper proposes a bilateral control framework for mobile robots which share the same workspace. The robots are teleoperated by independent users. Accordingly, for each teleoperated robot the other robots represent moving obstacles or static obstacles with a-priori unknown positions. For such teleoperation systems a velocity generator algorithm is proposed to obtain the linear and angular velocity commands of the mobile robots. A procedure is also given to calculate the haptic force corresponding to each mobile robot. To guarantee the stability of the teleoperation in the presence of large communication delays, a supervisor control algorithm is proposed which constantly monitors the stability of the teleoperation system. Experimental measurements are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed bilateral teleoperation strategy.
An Intelligent Controller Design Approach for MIMO Coupled Tank System Mohd Hafiz Jali; Ahmad Firdaus Azhar; Rozaimi Ghazali; Chong Chee Soon
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 7, No 1: March 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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Nowadays, versatilities of controllers have been developed to control the Coupled Tank System (CTS) such as proportional, integral, derivative (PID), fuzzy, fuzzy PID and neuro network. This paper focused on the control of the pump flow rate, in and out of the tank against the cross-sectional area of the CTS’s tank. The main objective of this paper is to design a CTS by using MATLAB since the Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) is widely utilized in the control of engineering applications in the industrial. Therefore, the FLC will be utilized to control and improve the performance of the CTS. The conventional PID controller will be applied, which reacts as a benchmark in the performance of the FLC. Parameters such as steady state error, settling time, and maximum overshoot will be part of the simulation results. As a result of the dynamic response executed in the closed-loop environment, it can be concluded that the FLC is capable of performing better than the conventional PID controller.
Novel Approach to Control of Robotic Hand Using Flex Sensors Sandesh R.S; Nithya Venkatesan
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 3, No 4: December 2014
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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This paper discuss about novel design approach to control of a robotic hand using flex sensors which indicates a biomechatronic multi fingered robotic hand. This robotic hand consists of base unit, upper arm, lower arm, palm and five fingers. The aim is to develop an anthropomorphic five fingered robotic hand. The proposed design illustrates the use of 5 micro DC motors with 9 Degrees of Freedom (DOF).Each finger is controlled independently. Further three extra motors were used for the control of wrist elbow and base movement. The study of the DC motor is being carried out using the transfer function model for constant excitation. The micro DC motor performance was analyzed using MATLAB simulation environment. The whole system is implemented using flex sensors. The flex sensors placed on the human hand gloves appear as if they look like real human hand.  89v51 microcontroller was used for all the controlling actions along with RF transmitter/receiver .The performance of the system has been conducted experimentally and studied.
Leader-Follower Tracking System for Agricultural Vehicles: Fusion of Laser and Odometry Positioning Using Extended Kalman Filter Zhang Lin Huan; Takigawa Tomohiro; Ahamed Tofael
IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA) Vol 4, No 1: March 2015
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

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The aim of this research was to develop a safe human-driven and autonomous leader-follower tracking system for an autonomous tractor. To enable the tracking system, a laser range finder (LRF)-based landmark detection system was designed to observe the relative position between a leader and a follower used in agricultural operations. The virtual follower-based formation-tracking algorithm was developed to minimize tracking errors and ensure safety. An extended Kalman filter (EKF) was implemented for fusing LRF and odometry position to ensure stability of tracking in noisy farmland conditions. Simulations were conducted for tracking the leader in small and large sinusoidal curved paths. Simulated results verified high accuracy of formation tracking, stable velocity, and regulated steering angle of the follower. The tracking method confirmed the follower could follow the leader with a required formation safely and steadily in noisy conditions. The EKF helped to improve observation accuracy, velocity, and steering angle stability of the follower. As a result of the improved accuracy of observation and motion action, the tracking performance for lateral, longitudinal, and heading were also improved after the EKF was implemented in the tracking system.

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