MANFRED

Autonomous mobile manipulator for operation in difficult environments

Main researcher: L. Moreno

Manfred_v2_1

Description

Due to the presence of obstacles, fixed or mobile, narrow places, locations with a high number of obstacles, doors, safety valves and other elements in typical human environments, mobile manipulators require a high level of autonomy in movements and manipulation. To cope with autonomy requirements a combination of displacement, manipulation and sensorial capabilites are nedeed. Other important aspect in many kind of environments is the presence of persons. Safety considerations need to be carefully considered from a sensorial point of view and specially in those aspects relatives to the manipulator (light wheight and moderate speeds. MANFRED has a coordinated control of all degree of freedom in the system (the mobile base 2 DOF and the manipulator 6 DOF) to achieve a good and robust movement in order to develope efficiently different tasks. This mobile manipulator use a sensorial system based in vision and 3-D laser telemetry to perceive and model 3-D environments. This sensorial system have to be coordinated with the control system to manipulate objects than can be located in uncertain location of the espace. The mobile manipulator will include all the capabilities needed to navigate, localize and avoid obstacles safely through the environment

Entries:
End-User Programming of a Social Robot by Dialog
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. (Online). num. 12 , vol. 59 , pages: 1102 – 1114 , 2011
Javi F. Gorostiza M.A. Salichs
Using MUDs as an experimental platform for testing a decision making system for self-motivated autonomous agents
Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Journal (AISBJ).. num. 1 , vol. 2 , pages: 21 – 44 , 2010
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Human-Robot Interfaces for Social Interaction
International Journal of Robotics and Automation. , 2006
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs

Entries:
Use of RFID technology on a mobile robot fortopological navigation tasks
IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications, 2011, Sitges, Spain
A. Corrales M.A. Salichs
Selection of Actions for an Autonomous Social Robot
International Conference on Social Robotics. Best Student Paper Finalist (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17248-9_12), 2010, Singapore, Singapore
A. Castro-Gonzalez M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
The Use of Emotions in an Autonomous Agent’s Decision Making Process
Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob09), Venice, Italy
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Teaching Sequences to a Social Robot by Voice Interaction
RO-MAN 09 : 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication , 2009, Toyama, Japan
Javi F. Gorostiza M.A. Salichs
Infrared Remote Control with a Social Robot
FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009. International Conference on Social Robotics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03986-7_10), 2009, Incheon, Korea
A. Castro-Gonzalez M.A. Salichs
Gestión de estados básicos para el robot Maggie
4º Workshop RoboCity2030. Robots personales y asistenciales., 2008, Leganés, Spain
A. Castro-Gonzalez M.A. Salichs
Robot Skill Abstraction for AD Architecture
6th IFAC Symposium onIntelligent Autonomous Vehicles IAV 2007, 2007, Toulouse, 2007
A. Corrales R. Rivas R. Barber M.A. Salichs
Using Emotions for Behaviour-Selection Learning
The 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ECAI 2006, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Maggie: A Robotic Platform for Human-Robot Social Interaction
IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM 2006), 2006, Bangkok, Thailand
E. Delgado A. Corrales R. Rivas R. Pacheco A.M. Khamis Javi F. Gorostiza M. Malfaz R. Barber M.A. Salichs
Emotion-Based Learning of Intrinsically Motivated Autonomous Agents living in a Social World
International Conference on Development and Learning 2006. ICDL5, 2006, Bloomington, In, USA
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Learning Behaviour-Selection Algorithms for Autonomous Social Agents living in a Role-Playing Game
Narrative AI and Games, part of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems. University of Bristol, Bristol, England
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Using Emotions on Autonomous Agents. The Role of Happiness, Sadness and Fear
Integrative Approaches to Machine Consciousness, part of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, Bristol, England
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs

Entries:
Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems
chapter: Path planning inspired on emotional intelligence pages: 119 – 132. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg , ISBN: 978-3-540-89932, 2009
V. Egido M. Malfaz R. Barber M.A. Salichs
Progress in Robotics. Communications in Computer and Information Science 44
chapter: Infrared Remote Control with a Social Robot pages: 86 – 95. Springer , ISBN: 978-3-642-03985, 2009
A. Castro-Gonzalez M.A. Salichs
Robots personales y asistenciales
chapter: ASIBOT: robot portátil de asistencia a discapacitados. Concepto, arquitectura de control y evaluación clínica pages: 127 – 144. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid , ISBN: 978-84-691-3824, 2008
R. Pacheco R. Correal A. Gimenez S. Martinez A. Jardon R. Barber M.A. Salichs
Progress in Robotics.
chapter: Integration of a RFID System in a Social Robot. pages: 66 – 73. Springer Berlin Heidelberg , ISBN: 978-3-642-03986, 1999
A. Corrales M.A. Salichs

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