755 research outputs found
Multimodal Manipulation Under Uncertainty (Dagstuhl Seminar 15411)
No full textThis report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar
15411 "Multimodal Manipulation Under Uncertainty". The seminar was
organized around brief presentations designed to raise questions and
initiate discussions, multiple working groups addressing specific
topics, and extensive plenary debates. Section 3 reproduces abstracts of brief presentations, and Section 4 summarizes the results of the working groups
Modeling Human Motor Skills to Enhance Robots’ Physical Interaction
No full textThe need for users’ safety and technology acceptability has incredibly increased with the deployment of co-bots physically interacting with humans in industrial settings, and for people assistance. A well-studied approach to meet these requirements is to ensure human-like robot motions and interactions. In this manuscript, we present a research approach that moves from the understanding of human movements and derives usefull guidelines for the planning of arm movements and the learning of skills for physical interaction of robots with the surrounding environment.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Learning & Autonomous Contro
A Visual Intelligence Scheme for Hard Drive Disassembly in Automated Recycling Routines
No full textAs the state-of-the-art deep learning models are taking the leap to generalize and leverage automation, they are becoming useful in real-world tasks such as the disassembly of devices by robotic manipulation. We address the problem of analyzing the visual scenes on industrial-grade tasks, for example, automated robotic recycling of a computer hard drive with small components and little space for manipulation. We implement a supervised learning architecture combining deep neural networks and standard point cloud processing for detecting and recognizing hard drives parts, screws, and gaps. We evaluate the architecture on a custom hard drive dataset and reach an accuracy higher than 75% in every component used in our pipeline. Additionally, we show that the pipeline can generalize on damaged hard drives. Our approach combining several specialized modules can provide a robust description of a device usable for manipulation by a robotic system. To our knowledge, we are the pioneers to offer a complete scheme to address the entire disassembly process of the chosen device. To facilitate the pursuit of this issue of global concern, we provide a taxonomy for the target device to be used in automated disassembly scenarios and publish our collected dataset and code
Justus von Liebig
No full textThis is a short overview of the life and achievements of Justus von Liebig. Clearly, this can only be an incomplete and somewhat personal view of the author, who has been a professor of inorganic chemistry at Justus Liebig University since 2002. Having already been interested in the work of Liebig for many years, and with a strong connection to the Liebig Museum in Giessen, the author hopes to provide some useful information about this great chemist, one of the founders of modern chemistry. The reader should find many interesting, probably new, facts about Liebig’s major impact on chemistry, agriculture, nutrition, and pharmacology
Justus Lipsius and Neostoicism
No full textFinal book published.Jacqueline Lagre's, 'Justus Lipsius and Neostoicism' translated from French by Dr. Elliot Rossiter
A Simple Ontology of Manipulation Actions Based on Hand-Object Relations
No full textHumans can perform a multitude of different actions with their hands (manipulations). In spite of this, so far there have been only a few attempts to represent manipulation types trying to understand the underlying principles. Here we first discuss how manipulation actions are structured in space and time. For this we use as temporal anchor points those moments where two objects (or hand and object) touch or un-touch each other during a manipulation. We show that by this one can define a relatively small tree-like manipulation ontology. We find less than 30 fundamental manipulations. The temporal anchors also provide us with information about when to pay attention to additional important information, for example when to consider trajectory shapes and relative poses between objects. As a consequence a highly condensed representation emerges by which different manipulations can be recognized and encoded. Examples of manipulations recognition and execution by a robot based on this representation are given at the end of this study.European Community [270273, 269959
De metamorfoses van het Justus van Effencomplex
No full textDe Justus van Effencomplex in Spangen, dat architect Michiel Brinkman in 1918 ontwierp, werd in 1985 bijgeschreven in het monumentenregister. Een ingrijpende renovatie vondplaats tussen 1983 en 1989 in het kader van de Rotterdamse stadsvernieuwing. In 2010 was het complex echter opnieuw in zo een slechte conditie dat werd besloten tot een tweede verbetering, ditmaal een restauratie. Het complex dat in 1922 werd opgeleverd als een experimenteel en modern staal van volkshuisvesting, was een verouderd wooncomplex geworden. De eigenaar, Woonstad Rotterdam, hoopt met de restauratie het Justus van Effencomplex zijn waarde als een monument van volkshuisvesting te hebben teruggegeven.Architectural Engineering +TechnologyArchitectur
Referral of Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the charge of incitement to commit genocide
No full text... principal author: Justus Reid WeinerParallel als Buch-Ausg. erschiene
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