Special purpose vehicles for sustainable finance of innovation in Romania - the case of intelligent robotic systems

The intelligent robotic systems IRS integrates artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent autonomous control based on special features like: decision making, multispectral sensorial information, advanced monitoring and execution capabilities. There is an impressive rate of success of IRS projects that benefits from the Industry 4.0. The design of strategies for IRS financing is very important for Romania, because the governmental funding is far from the critical mass and the access to capital market is insufficient. In this contribution the interest is to design special purpose vehicles (SPV) for sustainable finance of innovation in the case of IRS, adapted to Romanian emerging market, like venture capital financing (VCF) or thematic exchanged traded funds (ETF)

The walking robots critical position of the kinematics or dynamic systems applied on the environment model

© 2018 Authors. The exposure is dedicated in the first to mathematical modeling of the environment where the aspects on the walking robots evolution models are described. The environment's mathematical model is defined through the models of kinematics or dynamic systems in the general case of systems that depend on parameters. The important property of the dynamic system evolution models that approach the phenomenon from the environment is property of separation between stable and unstable regions from the free parameters domain of the system. Some mathematical conditions that imply the separation of stable regions from the free parameters domain of the system are formulated. In the second part is described our idea on walking robot kinematics and dynamic models with aspects exemplified on walking robot leg. An inverse method for identification of possible critical positions of the walking robot leg is established

Design and Motion Synthesis of Modular Walking Robot Mero

The walking robots are built to displace the loads on the not-aligned terrain. The mechatronic walking system protects much better the environment when its contact with the soil is discrete, a fact that limits the area that is crushed appreciatively. At the Polytechnic University of Bucharest a walking modular robot to handle farming tools has been developed. This walking robot has three twolegged modules. Every leg has three freedom degrees and a tactile sensor to measure the contact, which consists of the lower and upper levels. The body of the MERO (MEchanism RObot) walking robot carries a gyroscopic bearing sensor to measure the pitch and roll angles of the platform. The legs are powered by hydraulic drives and are equipped with potentiometric sensors. They are used to control the walking robot in the adaptability to a natural ground. A vehicle like that is Romanian Walking Robot MERO (Fig.1)

Robot Extenics Control Developed by Versatile, Intelligent and Portable Robot Vipro Platform Applied on Firefighting Robots

The firefighting robot control using intelligent Extenics control interfaces ICEx developed by versatile, intelligent and portable robot VIPRO platform is presented. Subsequently, VIPRO platform architecture, the innovative versatile, intelligent, portable platform, is applied on firefighting robots VIP- FiR&FiTRo, Extenics intelligent control and Universe of Discourse in an Extenics Transformation are detailed.  The Extenics Control Method with Fuzzy Smoothing is developed and tested using a simple DC motor configuration in the Matlab / Simulink programming environment. A sequence for the Intelligent Control Interface Code integrated into the VIPRO is presented. The results prove the possibilities for tweaking and optimizing by intelligent Extenics control developed on VIPRO platform in order to obtain improved performance are virtually limitless

Aerial Mechatronic Systems for Collection of Atmospheric and Environmental Data

Currently, atmospheric and environmental monitoring also requires approaches based on robotic aerial mechatronic systems that can offer the advantages of onboard intelligent sensors. The accelerated dynamics of climate change generate risks that can be prevented by the acquisition, storage, transmission and processing of data taken under static, quasi-statistical and kinetic conditions at lower costs compared to piloted aircraft. The article presents an approach on atmospheric and environmental monitoring using a robotic aerial mechatronic system based on an airship UAV and a classic airborne UAV, launched using a ground-based launch device

Walking Robots Dynamic Control Systems on an Uneven Terrain

The paper presents ZPM dynamic control of walking robots, developing an open architecture real time control multiprocessor system, in view of obtaining new capabilities for walking robots. The complexity of the movement mechanism of a walking robot was taken into account, being a repetitive tilting process with numerous instable movements and which can lead to its turnover on an uneven terrain. The control system architecture for the dynamic robot walking is presented in correlation with the control strategy which contains three main real time control loops: balance robot control using sensorial feedback, walking diagram control with periodic changes depending on the sensorial information during each walk cycle, predictable movement control based on a quick decision from the previous experimental data. The results obtained through simulation and experiments show an increase in mobility, stability in real conditions and obtaining of high performances related to the possibility of moving walking robots on terrains with a configuration as close as possible to real situations, respectively developing new technological capabilities of the walking robot control systems for slope movement and walking by overtaking or going around obstacles