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Saldatura robotizzata: Le novità presentate in Automatica 2010
No full textAUTOMATICA is one of the most prestigious fairs of the world in the areas of robotics, automation, mechatronics: the fourth edition was held in Munich, Germany, on June 7-11, 2010, in parallel with the international conference ISR/Robotik 2010. The paper reviews and discusses the solutions and innovations shown in the fair and the main news and results presented in the conference in the area of welding. The paper is organized in four sections. A short review of the components presented in the fair followed by a presentation of the welding robotized systems exposed in the boots of the main robot manufacturers. In the third section a review of the results discussed in the technical contributions presented in the conference ISR/Robotik in the area of welding. In the last section my personal conclusive remarks
Personal full electric vehicle PICAV: Non linear dynamic model and simulation (Article)
No full textRequest of sustainable personalized transport is growing in different areas of service robotics, for aid to mobility of elderly and motion disabled people, for freight delivery in urban environment, for passengers transport in restricted zones as airports and greens because of the small dimensions, tiny footprint, on-board intelligence, friendly human car interface and zero environmental impact. The paper studies the feasibility of an electric vehicle with four non steering wheels considering as driving principle the skid steering that has been mainly used for tracked vehicles.The vehicle is a complex nonlinear multi body system with numerous mobilities either in stiff and in elastic motion. For evaluating the vehicle performances, the maneuverability and stability behavior it is needed the availability of a model able to describe all the significant motion modes in different operative conditions. The paper presents the PICAV model and some results of the simulation campaign that demonstrated its soundness and reliability. © 2015, North Atlantic University Union NAUN. All rights reserved
Personal full electric vehicle PICAV: Non linear dynamic model and simulation (Article)
No full textRequest of sustainable personalized transport is growing in different areas of service robotics, for aid to mobility of elderly and motion disabled people, for freight delivery in urban environment, for passengers transport in restricted zones as airports and greens because of the small dimensions, tiny footprint, on-board intelligence, friendly human car interface and zero environmental impact. The paper studies the feasibility of an electric vehicle with four non steering wheels considering as driving principle the skid steering that has been mainly used for tracked vehicles.The vehicle is a complex nonlinear multi body system with numerous mobilities either in stiff and in elastic motion. For evaluating the vehicle performances, the maneuverability and stability behavior it is needed the availability of a model able to describe all the significant motion modes in different operative conditions. The paper presents the PICAV model and some results of the simulation campaign that demonstrated its soundness and reliability. © 2015, North Atlantic University Union NAUN. All rights reserved
Intelligent vehicles in pedestrian environments
No full textThis paper concerns research aimed at developing an intelligent vehicle able to share the environment and to
interact sympathetically with humans. This would oer new applications for goods and people transportation
not only within outdoor restricted trac areas (parks and cities) but also in indoor environments such as
industrial and service areas (manufacturing, stations, airports). In relation to the eld of intelligent vehicles
and mobile robotics, the motion planning and control problems are well-known research subjects. However
nowadays mobile robots are not able to operate in rapidly changing semi-structured or unstructured crowded
human environments, with robots not used to the presence of many humans and with people not used to the
presence of robots. In relation to pedestrian behaviour most eort in recent research is addressed to understand
how people move around to nd out optimality criteria for space design. The basic idea of the proposed research
is to identify the rules which describe pedestrian behaviour and to transfer them to the intelligent mobile robot
in such a way to make it, rst, able to operate in complex and rapidly changing environments, secondly to do
it as a pedestrian, thus minimising its interactions and potential disturbance to pedestrian ows
Dynamic investigation on a new robotized vehicle for urban freight transport
No full textThe paper presents and discusses modelling and simulation of a robotic vehicle called FURBOT, designed for last mile delivery of freights. The focus is on the design process through simulation to meet requirements typical of a robot as well as automotive performance as for a commercial van. It is introduced the original concept of vehicle self-adapting its configuration and speed to ensure stability and integrity of the load and to protect the chassis itself from overload and mechanical fatigue, making possible a leaner sizing of the chassis structures and so higher payload to overall mass. FURBOT is small, dexterous, thought to work in fleet, suitable for e-commerce market and endowed with a robotized system for loading/unloading the freight. A virtual prototype of the vehicle is implemented to predict with sufficient accuracy, yet from the first steps of the design process, the reaction and performance against typical driving conditions typical of vehicle development; control logics are consequently derived
Il programma di ricerca MiniPaR: minirobotica parallela per applicazioni speciali
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Intelligent vehicles in pedestrian environments
No full textThis paper concerns research aimed at developing an intelligent vehicle able to share the environment and to
interact sympathetically with humans. This would oer new applications for goods and people transportation
not only within outdoor restricted trac areas (parks and cities) but also in indoor environments such as
industrial and service areas (manufacturing, stations, airports). In relation to the eld of intelligent vehicles
and mobile robotics, the motion planning and control problems are well-known research subjects. However
nowadays mobile robots are not able to operate in rapidly changing semi-structured or unstructured crowded
human environments, with robots not used to the presence of many humans and with people not used to the
presence of robots. In relation to pedestrian behaviour most eort in recent research is addressed to understand
how people move around to nd out optimality criteria for space design. The basic idea of the proposed research
is to identify the rules which describe pedestrian behaviour and to transfer them to the intelligent mobile robot
in such a way to make it, rst, able to operate in complex and rapidly changing environments, secondly to do
it as a pedestrian, thus minimising its interactions and potential disturbance to pedestrian ows
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