E-Learning: Case Studies in Web-Controlled Devices and Remote Manipulation

Chances are that distance learning will transparently extend colleges and institutes of education and could plausibly overtake and turn into a preferred choice of higher education, especially for adult and working students. The main idea in e-learning is to build adequate solutions that can assure educational training over the Internet, without requiring a personal presence at the degree offering institution. The advantages are immediate and of unique importance, to enumerate a few: Education costs can be reduced dramatically, both from a student's perspective and the institution's (no need for room and board, for example); The tedious immigration and naturalization issues common with international students are eliminated; The limited campus facilities, faculty members and course schedules an institution can offer are no longer a boundary; Working adults can consider upgrading skills without changing their lifestyles We are presenting through this material a sequence of projects developed at University of Bridgeport and than can serve well in distance learning education ranging from simple "hobby" style training to professional guidance material. The projects have an engineering / laboratory flavor and are being presented in an arbitrary order, topics ranging from vision and sensing to engineering design, scheduling, remote control and operation

Vision-Guided Mobile Robot Navigation

This report discusses the use of vision feedback for autonomous navigation by a mobile robot in indoor environments. In particular, we have discussed in detail the issues of camera calibration and how binocular and monocular vision may be utilized for self-location by the robot. A noteworthy feature of monocular vision is that the camera image is compared with a CAD model of the interior of the hallways using the PSEIKI reasoning system; this reasoning system allows the comparison to take place at different levels of geometric detail

Argumentation as a practical foundation for decision theory

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