Multi-telerobot collaboration based on coordinated controller

Timedelayisoneofthemainfactorsthatinflu encetheInternet basedmulti telerobotcollaboration.Duetothetimedelay,theoperatorsinthedifferentlo cationswouldeasilysendwrongcommands.Mean while,thetimedelayleadstotheremoterobotsreceiv inginstructionsasynchronously.…     

面向资源共享与协作的仪器设备网格

仪器设备的全面共享与协作是当今科学研究快速发展的必然要求.网格技术的出现,为实现仪器设备的深层次共享与协作带来了新的思路和可能.本文概述网格的基本概念、特点及应用,总结国内外仪器设备网格的研究现状及其关键技术,在此基础上.尝试对仪器设备网格资源共享与协作的发展及应用前景做出展望.     

基于轻量化智能的多机协同SLAM系统

视觉多机协同即时定位与地图构建(SLAM)主要以相机作为传感器,并通过多机器人合作实现定位与建图。然而,在面对复杂环境时前端计算量过大,易导致整体系统精度不理想。启发于REVO和SVO算法的轻量化特点,提出一种基于轻量化智能的多机协同SLAM系统,旨在降低前端计算资源的同时提升系统可扩展性。提出改进REVO算法—L-REVO,通过轻量化改进实现前端实时运行;将L-REVO融合CCMSLAM系统后端,提出一种完整的多机协同SLAM架构;调整前端传感器和算法,分别验证前端为同构或异构时对系统性能的影响。在公开数据集TUM上,相比CCMSLAM系统,该系统两种模式下定位精度分别提高了59.4%和31.6%,能效比提升了8倍。最后,将该系统用于室内场景实验,前端功耗仅1.43 W,验证了所提系统的可行性和有效性。     

基于角色和规则的工作流模型研究

工作流是业务过程的全部或者部分自动执行.将业务过程进行抽象建立过程模型是工作流管理的第一步.以活动为中心的工作流管理系统过于强调执行的过程,忽略了流程管理中的主动因素--角色.主要以角色为中心建立业务流程的一元模型,通过角色的交互实现业务目标.角色之间的关联以及交互顺序通过ECAA规则来控制.规则的管理由规则引擎单独管理,角色之间的消息由规则引擎处理之后进行转发.     

北京2022年冬奥会和冬残奥会火炬传递机器人

面向北京冬奥会对机器人跨域火炬传递的需求,研发水陆两栖机器人、水下变结构机器人、空中飞行机器人、地面机器人、冰雪面六足机器人和助力外骨骼机器人等6型面向火炬接力的系列机器人,利用这些机器人可在地面、空中和水下完成火炬传递。最终,根据北京2022年冬奥会火炬接力路线方案的调整,将水陆两栖机器人、水下变结构机器人和水下特种火炬应用于北京2022年冬奥会火炬传递活动中,实现了奥运史上首次机器人与机器人之间的水下火炬传递;助力外骨骼机器人应用于北京2022年冬残奥会火炬传递活动中,残疾人代表使用下肢助力外骨骼进行了火种汇集,两位残疾人火炬手分别借助上肢和下肢助力外骨骼机器人一起进行了火炬传递,传递出“科技改变生活”的理念,体现出“技术温暖人心”的精神。     

A tale of two Great Lakes conferences: Urging global collaboration on our largest freshwater resources

Scientific meetings and conferences are a part of the scientific process, and can facilitate collaboration, idea-sharing, and harmonization of research and management. The success of a conference can be measured using many criteria, including consistency and reoccurrence of the meetings, credibility by participation of reputable professionals, and attendance by a diverse community. In the interest of increasing the success of large-lake, freshwater science, policy, and management, this comment focuses on two recent conferences attended by the authors: the 60th annual meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, in Detroit, U.S.A., and the African Great Lakes Conference, in Entebbe, Uganda. By our measures of success, we suggest that to make a larger impact on research, policy, and management of global, large, freshwater lakes that each conference can improve, either through greater diversity of experts from the global freshwater research community, or by consistently reoccurring on a regular basis.     

Collaboration in humanitarian supply chains: an organisational culture framework

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact that institutional logics and, more specifically, organisational culture can have on humanitarian supply chain (HSC) collaboration. A framework was developed that explicates buyer–supplier collaboration in a humanitarian setting. Twenty-nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with buyers and suppliers. The data indicated that in a HSC, collaborative outcomes, such as new product development, inventory management, and product/service delivery, are influenced by the buyers’ and suppliers’ organisational cultures. Based on suppliers’ characteristics, they can be classified as humanitarian suppliers, commercial suppliers, and humanitarian and commercial suppliers. These groups have distinct organisational cultures. An unexpected finding is that suppliers that serve commercial buyers primarily claim to have encountered no issues in supply chain collaboration with humanitarian buyers, although they have different types of organisational cultures. The factors that lead to successful collaboration are identified as trust, commitment, information sharing and mutual respect. Simultaneously, dominant institutional logics are observed in the dyadic relationship.     

Design coordination strategies in a 2D and BIM mixed-project environment: social dynamics and productivity

ABSTRACT

Despite the rapid spread of building information modelling (BIM), the majority of BIM projects are still conducted in a mixed-project environment: two-dimensional (2D) drawing and BIM. The design-coordination productivity and information-exchange patterns are analysed for a unique case where two towers, A and B, of a hospital project deployed two different design coordination strategies in a 2D and BIM mixed-construction environment. The tower A strategy coordinated designs using drawings as the main source of information and confirmed them using BIM (BIM-assisted coordination), whereas the tower B strategy coordinated designs using BIM and confirmed them using drawings (BIM-led coordination). The coordination productivity was 228% faster for tower B than for tower A. The frequency of design changes was much lower for tower B (0.42 times/drawing) than for tower A (2.13 times/drawing). As the result, the design coordination for tower A was delayed by 9.3 months, whereas tower B was completed rapidly and without any delay. A social network analysis revealed that the BIM-led coordination was supported by the relatively even distribution of information, the reduced control of an mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineer over a project, and higher accessibility to the information for every project participant.     

An approach for evaluating collaboration attributes in cluster-based companies

This paper presents an approach for evaluating collaboration attributes in companies operating in industrial clusters. From the literature review, we identified governance, geographic proximity, and trust as the main collaboration attributes in industrial clusters. For each of them, there is a set of related sub-attributes that composed the evaluation model. For developing the model, we used the graph theoretic approach (GTA), a methodology for multi-attribute assessment that considers interdependencies among elements of a system to provide an overall evaluation. We applied the model to five companies of a furniture cluster. The results showed the model allows for systematizing relationship management because it highlights the collaboration attributes that need to be improved. Furthermore, the application of the model may contribute to encouraging companies to develop collaborative practices.     

Drivers and enablers of supplier sustainability practices: a survey-based analysis

A rich research stream investigates the drivers and enablers of supplier sustainability practices, usually classified into suppliers’ monitoring and collaboration with suppliers. Differently from previous works analysing relationships between supplier sustainability practices and drivers or enablers, this research investigates how well-defined configurations of monitoring and collaboration can be characterised in terms of drivers and enablers. In this way, it intends to advance knowledge by identifying what drivers and enablers are important and distinctive for the different configurations of supplier sustainability practices. A first result is that moving from configurations of plants which less adopt supplier sustainability practices (i.e. non-adopters) to those which invest on monitoring and/or collaboration to a limited extent (i.e. partial adopters) up to the most advanced ones (i.e. full-adopters), the pressure due to cost reduction lessens its relative importance as a driver, while the pressure due to regulations remains essential. Other relevant results are that plant size acts as a barrier for non-adopters, and the alignment between the sustainability project and plant goals results determinant especially for full-adopters. This research also enriches the debate on the opportunity of differentiating between supplier monitoring and collaboration when investigating drivers/enablers, providing evidence of the risk of oversimplifications for some enablers/drivers.