Hybrid legged-wheeled robots are able to adapt their leg configuration and height to vary their footprint polygons and go over obstacles or traverse narrow spaces. In this paper, we present a variable configuration wheeled motion planner based on the...
Robots operating in real world environments require a high-level perceptual understanding of the chief physical properties of the terrain they are traversing. In unknown environments, roughness is one such important terrain property that could play a...
Deafblind people face remarkable challenges in communicating, because of their severe disability. The only way to interact with other people is the usage of the tactile sign language, which consists in understanding the sign language putting their...
Heart failure patients have become an important challenge for the healthcare system, since they represent a medical, social and economic problem. Early heart failure diagnoses can be very useful to improve patients’ quality of life and to reduce the...
SoBigData is a Research Infrastructure (RI) aiming to provide an integrated ecosystem for ethic-sensitive scientific discoveries and advanced applications of social data mining. A key milestone of the project focuses on data, methods and results...
SoBigData is a Research Infrastructure (RI) aiming to provide an integrated ecosystem for ethic-sensitive scientific discoveries and advanced applications of social data mining. A key milestone of the project focuses on data, methods and results...
Abstract: Although teleoperation applications are mainly associated with robots operating in remote, far-off sites, a large number of tasks in the industrial field requires teleoperation because of their potential danger, such as management of toxic...
Abstract: Robotic treatment has been recognized as a powerful tool to face the consequences of neurological impairments such as stroke. Among several potential benefits, the possibility to program high-intensity and repetitive movements increased the...
This letter presents a new method to detect materials with known spectral emissivity in data acquired by long-wave infrared hyperspectral sensors. The proposed approach differs from existing methods because it takes into account the uncertainty of the...
Abstract: The ageing population has become an increasing phenomenon world-wide, leading to a growing need for specialised help. Improving the quality of life of older people can lower the risk of depression and social isolation, but it requires a...
Abstract: One of the open challenges in Human-Robot collaborative tasks is to provide a simple way for humans to understand robotic systems' plans and actions and to interact with them in the most natural way. Towards the direction of a natural...
Abstract: The deployment of industrial robotic cells based on lean manufacturing principles enables the development of fast-reconfigurable assembly lines in which human and robotic agents collaborate to achieve a shared task. To ensure the effective...
Abstract - The Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture Advanced eXtensible Interface is a memory mapped protocol intended for internal System on Chip communications. However, there is no mean to directly exchange data between AXI devices and LabVIEW...
Abstract — PXI FPGA Peripheral Modules by National Instruments are meant to be used in LabVIEW even without any previous knowledge of Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and let users to hardware-accelerate their own test and measurement setups....
This paper introduces a comprehensive test equipment for early adopters of the new ECSS satellite on-board serial high-speed communication protocol, SpaceFibre, maintaining also retro-compatibility with its precursor, SpaceWire. The presented system is...
Spacecraft used in space mission have on-board a large number of peripherals such as instruments, mass-memory, downlink telemetry, sensors, actuators and processors. The State-Of-The-Art for the on-board spacecraft communication is the SpaceWire...
The CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) uses 215 beam position monitors (BPMs) to observe the beam orbit when accelerating protons or ions on a fast ramp cycle to beam energies of up to 450 GeV/c. In the frame of the CERN LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU)...
Abstract Technology improvements and cost reduction allow electrochemical energy storage systems based on Lithium-ion cells to massively be used in medium-power applications, where the low system cost is the major constraint. Battery pack maintenance...
A multi-transmitter configuration made by an array of passive resonant elements placed in the proximity of the driver coil for inductive Wireless Power Transfer applications is presented. The array is able to significantly decrease the electric field...
Indoor localisation is currently regarded as one of the most useful services offered to human beings and robotics agents, as it can support a variety of applications. Among all the possible sensing solutions developed to address this problem (which is...