Continuous Time Control for Bilateral Telemetry Application

Time delay or dead time is defined as the response time required for a process/ a device when an input is applied. Dead time is a phenomena commonly occurring in industrial processes, biological systems and engineering applications. Transport lags, communication lags, computational delays are various types of time delays which inherently cause improper functioning of the system unless compensated for. Bilateral telemetry is one such application which faces instability in operation when subjected to time delay. The master robot in the virtual environment is ’motion and force coupled’ with the slave robot in the virtual environment. This bilateral feedback provides better tracking results as compared to the unilateral scenario at the cost of introducing a transport lag in the communication channel. The present work focuses on addressing this time delay using classical control methods to provide for stability in event of large time delays

Multi-Agent Systems

A multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can be used to solve problems which are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or monolithic system to solve. Agent systems are open and extensible systems that allow for the deployment of autonomous and proactive software components. Multi-agent systems have been brought up and used in several application domains

Design of a New PumaPaint Interface and Its Use in One Year of Operation

Abstract—-The PumaPaint Project is an online robot that allows World Wide Web users to remotely create original artwork. The original site located at Wilkes University operated from June of 1998 to March of 2000 with approximately 25,000 unique-addressed machines downloading the interface to produce about 500 canvases. The new site at Roger Williams University opened to the public in August of 2002. After noticing that over fifty-percent of the machines downloading the interface were located outside of the United States we decided to create a more elegant and intuitive interface aimed at users from varied countries and varied ages. This paper addresses issues, concerns, and resolutions developed to provide this updated interface. The current site was updated integrating thi

Design of a new PumaPaint interface and its use in one year of operation

The PumaPaint Project is an online robot that allows World Wide Web users to remotely create original artwork. The original site located at Wilkes University operated from June of 1998 to March of 2000 with approximately 25,000 unique-addressed machines downloading the interface to produce about 500 canvases. The new site at Roger Williams University opened to the public in August of 2002. After noticing that over fifty-percent of the machines downloading the interface were located outside of the United States we decided to create a more elegant and intuitive interface aimed at users from varied countries and varied ages. This paper addresses issues, concerns, and resolutions developed to provide this updated interface. The current site was updated integrating this new interface in November of 2002 and evaluation of the interface is currently underway