Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Due to new developed technology man is leading a comfortable life. People want each work should be done automatically. So in this paper introduces a system called UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE. UGV as name indicate it operates in contact with ground and without any human resource. The vehicle will have a set of sensors to observe the environment. In this paper for the working of UGV, FPGA is embedded with image processing. FPGA as main processing platform used to control UGV. The performance evaluation of proposed system takes place by capturing the image of UGV with help of camera. This system demonstrate accurate localization of UGV. This UGV vehicle used in military, mall, automobile industry. To work system properly provide proper interfacing and synchronization between hardware/software module

Autonomous systems for operations in critical environments

This paper proposes an environment devoted to simulate the use of autonomous systems in the context of space exploratory missions and operations; this research focuses on supporting engineering of autonomous systems and of their innovative artificial intelligences through interoperable simulation. The proposed approach enables also development of training and educational solutions for use of robots and autonomous systems in space critical environments. The paper addresses different application areas including robotic inventory and warehouse solutions, intelligent space guard systems, drones for supporting extravehicular activities and for managing accidents and health emergencies. The paper investigates the potential of autonomous systems as well as their capability to interoperate with other systems and with humans, especially in critical environments. Finally, the paper presents the existing researches for interoperable simulators devoted to address these challenging topics within Simulation Exploratory Experience initiative

VEHÍCULOS TERRESTRES NO TRIPULADOS, SUS APLICACIONES Y TECNOLOGÍAS DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN

Unmanned ground vehicles are considered semi-autonomous or autonomous machines that perform complex operations of transport and monitoring of physical and environmental variables; to mention a few. These vehicles allow for the customization, optimization, and flexibility of the demands and challenges of innovation in multiple industry applications such as mapping, agriculture, security, mining, telemetry, military, geoscience, environmental, and logistics; therefore, we believe that consolidating the scientific information published around this topic allows readers to understand the connections between different approaches, applications, and enabling technologies to determine the direction in which they wish to take their research; and, at the same time, promotes more discussion about the fusion of mobile robotics into the internet applications of things that are emerging in today's industry. In this article, the web tool "Tree of Science" and the Systematic Review for information analysis were implemented.Los vehículos terrestres no tripulados son considerados máquinas semi autónomas o autónomas que realizan operaciones complejas de transporte y monitoreo de variables físicas y ambientales; por mencionar algunas. Estos vehículos permiten personalizar, optimizar y dar flexibilidad a las demandas y desafíos de innovación en múltiples campos de aplicación en la industria como cartografía, agricultura, seguridad, minería, telemetría, militar, geociencia, ambiental y logística; por tanto, creemos que consolidar la información científica publicada alrededor de este tema permite a los lectores comprender las conexiones entre los diferentes enfoques, aplicaciones y tecnologías habilitadoras para determinar el rumbo al cual desean llevar su investigación; y, al mismo tiempo, promover más debates sobre la fusión de la robótica móvil en las aplicaciones de internet de las cosas que están emergiendo en la industrial actual. En este artículo se implementó la herramienta web “Tree of Science” y la Revisión Sistemática para el análisis de la información

Recognition of Planar Segments in Point Cloud Based on Wavelet Transform

Within industrial automation systems, three-dimensional (3-D) vision provides very useful feedback information in autonomous operation of various manufacturing equipment (e.g., industrial robots, material handling devices, assembly systems, and machine tools). The hardware performance in contemporary 3-D scanning devices is suitable for online utilization. However, the bottleneck is the lack of real-time algorithms for recognition of geometric primitives (e.g., planes and natural quadrics) from a scanned point cloud. One of the most important and the most frequent geometric primitive in various engineering tasks is plane. In this paper, we propose a new fast one-pass algorithm for recognition (segmentation and fitting) of planar segments from a point cloud. To effectively segment planar regions, we exploit the orthonormality of certain wavelets to polynomial function, as well as their sensitivity to abrupt changes. After segmentation of planar regions, we estimate the parameters of corresponding planes using standard fitting procedures. For point cloud structuring, a z-buffer algorithm with mesh triangles representation in barycentric coordinates is employed. The proposed recognition method is tested and experimentally validated in several real-world case studies

Mechatronic Systems

Mechatronics, the synergistic blend of mechanics, electronics, and computer science, has evolved over the past twenty five years, leading to a novel stage of engineering design. By integrating the best design practices with the most advanced technologies, mechatronics aims at realizing high-quality products, guaranteeing at the same time a substantial reduction of time and costs of manufacturing. Mechatronic systems are manifold and range from machine components, motion generators, and power producing machines to more complex devices, such as robotic systems and transportation vehicles. With its twenty chapters, which collect contributions from many researchers worldwide, this book provides an excellent survey of recent work in the field of mechatronics with applications in various fields, like robotics, medical and assistive technology, human-machine interaction, unmanned vehicles, manufacturing, and education. We would like to thank all the authors who have invested a great deal of time to write such interesting chapters, which we are sure will be valuable to the readers. Chapters 1 to 6 deal with applications of mechatronics for the development of robotic systems. Medical and assistive technologies and human-machine interaction systems are the topic of chapters 7 to 13.Chapters 14 and 15 concern mechatronic systems for autonomous vehicles. Chapters 16-19 deal with mechatronics in manufacturing contexts. Chapter 20 concludes the book, describing a method for the installation of mechatronics education in schools

A Framework for the Design and Analysis of High-Performance Applications on FPGAs using Partial Reconfiguration

The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a dynamically reconfigurable digital logic chip used to implement custom hardware. The large densities of modern FPGAs and the capability of the on-thely reconfiguration has made the FPGA a viable alternative to fixed logic hardware chips such as the ASIC. In high-performance computing, FPGAs are used as co-processors to speed up computationally intensive processes or as autonomous systems that realize a complete hardware application. However, due to the limited capacity of FPGA logic resources, denser FPGAs must be purchased if more logic resources are required to realize all the functions of a complex application. Alternatively, partial reconfiguration (PR) can be used to swap, on demand, idle components of the application with active components. This research uses PR to swap components to improve the performance of the application given the limited logic resources available with smaller but economical FPGAs. The swap is called ”resource sharing PR”. In a pipelined design of multiple hardware modules (pipeline stages), resource sharing PR is a technique that uses PR to improve the performance of pipeline bottlenecks. This is done by reconfiguring other pipeline stages, typically those that are idle waiting for data from a bottleneck, into an additional parallel bottleneck module. The target pipeline of this research is a two-stage “slow-toast” pipeline where the flow of data traversing the pipeline transitions from a relatively slow, bottleneck stage to a fast stage. A two stage pipeline that combines FPGA-based hardware implementations of well-known Bioinformatics search algorithms, the X! Tandem algorithm and the Smith-Waterman algorithm, is implemented for this research; the implemented pipeline demonstrates that characteristics of these algorithm. The experimental results show that, in a database of unknown peptide spectra, when matching spectra with 388 peaks or greater, performing resource sharing PR to instantiate a parallel X! Tandem module is worth the cost for PR. In addition, from timings gathered during experiments, a general formula was derived for determining the value of performing PR upon a fast module