高速公路GPS车辆监控管理系统的应用

在高速公路建设取得突飞猛进的今天,针对高速公路路政巡逻、道路养护车辆的工作特点,建设一个GPS车辆监控管理系统,综合了GPS全球卫星定位系统、GIS地理信息系统、GSM／GPRS全球移动通信系统、计算机网络技术,使之能随时对车辆进行监控、调度,解决车辆管理混乱、组织无序的问题,从而对高速公路路政巡逻、抢险工作进行更加科学的管理,提高高速公路调度、指挥、管理的水平。     

高速公路GPS车辆监控管理系统的应用

在高速公路建设取得突飞猛进的今天,针对高速公路路政巡逻、道路养护车辆的工作特点,建设一个GPS车辆监控管理系统,综合了GPS全球卫星定位系统、GIS地理信息系统、GSM/GPRS全球移动通信系统、计算机网络技术,使之能随时对车辆进行监控、调度,解决车辆管理混乱、组织无序的问题,从而对高速公路路政巡逻、抢险工作进行更加科学的管理,提高高速公路调度、指挥、管理的水平。     

Development of tethered autonomous mobile robot systems for field works

This paper describes the implementation details, advantages and potential applications of autonomous tethered mobile robot systems using the 'hyper-tether' concept. Hyper-tether is a new research area on tethered connections, which provide tethering among different mobile robot types, such as a robot with the environment and a robot with humans and animals. Its basic function is to actively control the tether's tension and/or length, but it also considers tether launching, anchoring, power delivery, data communication cabling and built-in trajectory command generation capabilities. Many of these features can be efficiently applied to build a tethered mobile robot system which remotely manipulates a working tool that can be useful for land-mine detection and removal, trimming of gardens and grass cutting of wide areas (e.g. golf courses, soccer and baseball fields), spraying of agricultural chemicals, forestry and construction works, etc. In this paper, a simple prototype of hypertether's winch-tether pair and a working tool equipped with a grass cutter was constructed, and basic experiments were performed to demonstrate the validity of the proposed system.     

Motion coordination and reactive control of autonomous multi-manipulator systems

The emerging field of service robots demands new systems with increased flexibility. The flexibility of a robot system can be increased in many different ways. Mobile manipulation—the coordinated use of manipulation capabilities and mobility—is an approach to increase robots flexibility with regard to their motion capabilities. Most mobile manipulators that are currently under development use a single arm on a mobile platform. The use of a two-arm manipulator system allows increased manipulation capabilities, especially when large, heavy, or non-rigid objects must be manipulated. This article is concerned with motion control for mobile two-arm systems. These systems require new schemes for motion coordination and control. A coordination scheme called transparent coordination is presented that allows for an arbitrary number of manipulators on a mobile platform. Furthermore, a reactive control scheme is proposed to enable the platform to support sensor-guided manipulator motion. Finally, this article introduces a collision avoidance scheme for mobile two-arm robots. This scheme surveys the vehicle motion to avoid platform collisions and arm collisions caused by self-motion of the robot. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

室外智能移动机器人的发展及其关键技术研究

室外智能移动机器人有着广泛的应用前景,是机器人研究中的热点之一．本文分析 了在室外移动机器人发展中有着代表意义的几个典型系统,进而论述了室外移动机器人研究 中的若干关键技术的研究现状及发展水平．这些关键技术包括移动机器人的控制体系结构、 机器人视觉信息的实时处理技术、车体的定位系统、多传感器信息的集成与融合技术以及路 径规划技术与车体控制技术等．     

基于虚拟现实技术的移动机器人视觉伺服控制系统设计

为了有效确保移动机器人视觉伺服控制效果,提高移动机器人视觉伺服控制精度,设计了基于虚拟现实技术的移动机器人视觉伺服控制系统。通过三维视觉传感器和立体显示器等虚拟环境的I/O设备、位姿传感器、视觉图像处理器以及伺服控制器元件,完成系统硬件设计。从运动学和动力学两个方面,搭建移动机器人数学模型,利用标定的视觉相机,生成移动机器人实时视觉图像,通过图像滤波、畸变校正等步骤,完成图像的预处理。利用视觉图像,构建移动机器人虚拟移动环境。在虚拟现实技术下,通过目标定位、路线生成、碰撞检测、路线调整等步骤,规划移动机器人行动路线,通过控制量的计算,实现视觉伺服控制功能。系统测试结果表明,所设计控制系统的位置控制误差较小,姿态角和移动速度控制误差仅为0.05°和0.12m/s,移动机器人碰撞次数较少,具有较好的移动机器人视觉伺服控制效果,能够有效提高移动机器人视觉伺服控制精度。     

基于无线局域网的移动机器人远程控制系统

针对Pioneer3-AT移动机器人的特点,基于无线局域网设计并实现了一种移动机器人远程控制系统。简要介绍了系统的工作原理及移动机器人的体系结构,给出系统服务器和客户端程序的实现流程,最后,通过实际客户端操作实现了移动机器人的远程运动控制、轨迹跟踪以及现场图像信息实时传输显示。     

基于粒子滤波器的移动机器人自定位方法研究

首先,对粒子滤波器的原理进行了简要阐述。然后详细描述了基于粒子滤波器的移动机器人自定位算法——蒙特卡洛定位算法。在ROS(Robot Operating System)平台上对该算法进行了仿真实验并分析了其性能。最后,对蒙特卡洛粒子滤波定位方法用于移动机器人定位进行了总结。结果表明,MCL(蒙特卡洛)算法是一种精确鲁棒的移动机器人概率定位方法,可对解决移动机器人的定位问题提供有意义的参考。提出的机器人自定位方法为机器人在Robocup竞赛中自主执行各种作业提供定位支持,已在2013年中国机器人大赛获奖。     

面向地下管道的四向行走智能机器人系统

为了减小地下管道作业人员伤亡,降低城市地下管道维护的成本,研制开发了一种面向地下管道的四向行走智能机器人系统,详细描述了机器人的硬件设计和控制软件设计.机器人控制系统采用ARM-CORTEX芯片作为主控芯片,由于地下管道的特殊性采用有线通信方式,上位机控制软件简洁易操作.测试结果表明:机器人工作性能良好,能够适应不同管径的地下管道,同时具有防水防尘等特性,研究具有一定参考价值.     

Distributed Telerobotics System Based on Common Object Request Broker Architecture

This paper proposes using CORBA as communication architecture to integrate network-distributed software and robotic systems in support systems for the aged or disabled. The proposed method keeps system costs low and expands availability. Its high scaling and inter-operating ability allows clients and server objects that are written in different languages, run in different operating systems, and connected to different networks to inter-operate. It also enables the system to be extended and integrated with other technologies and applications distributed over the Internet. Based on CORBA, we developed hardware base including a robot arm and an omnidirectional mobile robot and application servers including a task-level robot arm control server, live feedback image server, mobile robot control server and iGPS server. By remotely controlling mobile robot to cooperate with the robot arm, the caregivers or family member can use the developed system for some basic services to the aged or disabled.     

Implementing distributed control system for intelligent mobile robot

The control system of a mobile robot has a number of issues to deal with in real time, including motion control, mapping, localization, path planning, and sensor processing. Intelligent reasoning, task-oriented behaviors, human–robot interfaces, and communications add more tasks to be solved. This naturally leads to a complex hierarchical control system where various tasks have to be processed concurrently. Many low-level tasks can be handled by a robots onboard (host) computer. However, other tasks, such as speech recognition or vision processing, are too computationally intensive for one computer to process. In this case, it is better to consider a distributed design for the control system in networked environments. In order to achieve maximum use of the distributed environment, it is important to design and implement the distributed system and its communication mechanisms in an effective and flexible way. This article describes our approach to designing and implementing a distributed control system for an intelligent mobile robot. We present our implementation of such a distributed control system for a prototype mobile robot. We focus our discussion on the system architecture, distributed communication mechanisms, and distributed robot control.This work was presented, in part, at the 8th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 24–26, 2003     

Conditions for target tracking with range-only information

This paper addresses the problem of guiding a mobile robot towards a target using only range sensors. The bearing information is not available. The target can be stationary or moving. It can be the source of some gas leakage or nuclear radiation or it can be some landmark or beacon or any manoeuvring vehicle. The mobile robot can be a ground vehicle or an aerial vehicle flying at a fixed altitude. In literature, many different strategies are proposed which use the range only measurement but they involve estimation of different parameters or have switching control strategy which make them difficult to implement. We propose two sets of conditions, one for stationary target and another for both stationary and moving target. Any control strategy, that will satisfy these conditions, can bring the robot arbitrarily close to the target. There are no restrictions on the initial conditions. Estimation of any parameter is not required. Some candidate controllers are presented that included continuous controllers and switching controllers. Simulations are carried out with these controllers to validate our result with and without measurement noise. Experimental results with ground mobile robot are presented.     

Hybrid trigonometric compound function neural networks for tracking control of a nonholonomic mobile robot

The purpose of this paper is to propose a hybrid trigonometric compound function neural network (NN) to improve the NN-based tracking control performance of a nonholonomic mobile robot with nonlinear disturbances. In the mobile robot control system, two NN controllers embedded in the closed-loop control system have the simple continuous learning and rapid convergence capability without the dynamics information of the mobile robot to realize the tracking control of the mobile robot. The neuron functions of the hidden layer in the three-layer feedforward network structure consist of the compound cosine function and the compound sine function combining a cosine or a sine function with a unipolar sigmoid function. The main advantages of this NN-based mobile robot control system are better real-time control capability and control accuracy by use of the proposed NN controllers for a nonholonomic mobile robot with nonlinear disturbances. Through simulation experiments applied to the nonholonomic mobile robot with the nonlinear disturbances of dynamics uncertainty and external disturbances, the simulation results show that the proposed NN control system of a nonholonomic mobile robot has better real-time control capability and control accuracy than the compound cosine function NN control system of a nonholonomic mobile robot and then verify the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid trigonometric compound function NN controller for improving the tracking control performance of a nonholonomic mobile robot with nonlinear disturbances.     

Task-oriented programming of large redundant robot motion

Large robots are a new domain of advanced robotics. Examples of their application fields are tasks like operations on large free-form surfaces, especially aircraft cleaning and removing paint from hulls. They are equipped with a programmable robot control comparable to a control system used for industrial robots. However, conventional teach-in methods are not able to manage the complexity of programming large redundant robot operation on free-form geometries. The Fraunhofer IPA has developed an innovative off-line programming system that allows the creation of robot motion programs which satisfy time and energy optimization criteria. This system helps to avoid collisions within the workspace and to fulfill conditions that arise from the robot kinematics and dynamics. This advanced programming system has been successfully used to generate motion programs for the world's largest mobile robot, the aircraft cleaning manipulator SKYWASH. In this context offline programs for eleven different types of aircraft have been developed.     

Robot Navigation in a Decentralized Landmark-Free Sensor Network

A wireless sensor network has the ability to autonomously perform event detection over large areas, but power and/or cost constraints limit the addition of equipment such as cameras onto sensor modules to verify events. Accordingly, verification must be performed by an independent mobile robotic vehicle which has sensing equipment for improved event detection. The main challenge, however, is that the robotic vehicle itself is typically located somewhere in the sensor field and has no prior knowledge of the geographic location of the event. In this paper, we specifically focus upon the scenario of navigating a robotic vehicle through a stationary wireless sensor network as a means to perform event verification. The underlying assumptions are that the robotic vehicle has distance traveled and heading measurements, but the only additional information provided by the stationary sensors is a communication boundary. More significantly, we emphasize that under this scenario, neither the robot nor the ground-fixed sensing nodes have location or any other geographical landmark information. The paper introduces two distinct and novel navigation algorithms that permit the robotic vehicle to travel from one fixed node to another along a communication path established in an ad-hoc fashion. These navigation algorithms have been tested on a newly developed UTrekr robotic vehicle within a hardware based ground-fixed sensor network and under assumption of perfect communication and network operations, we report a nearly 100% success rate even while using open-loop robot control.     

Motion planning for mobile robots using a laser range finder

We have designed a mobile robot with a distribution structure for intelligent life space. The mobile robot was constructed using an aluminum frame. The mobile robot has the shape of a cylinder, and its diameter, height, and weight are 40 cm, 80 cm, and 40 kg, respectively. There are six systems in the mobile robot, including structure, an obstacle avoidance and driving system, a software development system, a detection module system, a remote supervision system, and others. In the obstacle avoidance and driving system, we use an NI motion control card to drive two DC servomotors in the mobile robot, and detect obstacles using a laser range finder and a laser positioning system. Finally, we control the mobile robot using an NI motion control card and a MAXON driver according to the programmed trajectory. The mobile robot can avoid obstacles using the laser range finder, and follow the programmed trajectory. We developed the user interface with four functions for the mobile robot. In the security system, we designed module-based security devices to detect dangerous events and transmit the detection results to the mobile robot using a wireless RF interface. The mobile robot can move to the event position using the laser positioning system.     

智能农业除草机器人研究现状与趋势分析

智能农业除草机器人融合了环境分析、路径导航、视觉识别和运动控制等多种技术,是应用于精准农业中除草作业的智能机器人系统,作为农业机械化研究的热点备受国内外学者关注;对除草机器人的国内外研究现状进行了梳理,进一步分析了除草机器人的特点与优势;总结了除草机器人系统控制、移动导航和机器视觉等关键技术的研究进展,指出关键技术的发展前景与空间;结合除草机器人的技术研究特点与市场环境分析了其未来发展趋势;针对目前除草机器人存在的问题提出解决思路与研究方法,为除草机器人智能化、自动化和集成化发展研究提供理论参考.     

高速公路自动收费系统日常维护

近年来,随着高速公路通车里程的快速增长,其在路网中的重要性日益突出。在这种情况下,采用非现金方式支付通行费,利用先进的电子手段,使车辆不需要停车就能收取通行费的系统就成为迫切的需要。针对目前的现状,采用车载识别卡与收费车道自动车辆识别系统,通过无线电波实现车辆自动识别和数据交换,并由计算机系统控制指挥车辆通行。利用计算机系统控制的高速公路自动收费系统,有效的提高了收费效率,但对于高速公路自动化收费系统的维护也提出了更高的要求。     

Predictive proportional nonlinear control for stable-target tracking of a mobile robot: an experimental study

Two new types of control method have been developed based on model predictive control for stable-target tracking of a nonholonomic mobile robot. One method (Method 1) is a new nonlinear control method. This was developed based on model predictive control (predictive nonlinear control) to predict the next position of a mobile robot using the current velocities of the right and left wheels. This technique uses a tuning guideline in predictive nonlinear control. The other method (Method 2) is a combination of Method 1 and proportional control (predictive proportional nonlinear control). Method 2 involves a tuning guideline not only in a predictive nonlinear controller, but also in a proportional controller. In this technique, the selection of a tuning guideline in the proportional controller is enhanced, and thereby increases the control action in closed-loop responses. In Method 1, the nonlinear controller is derived from Liapunov stability theory, and is used to control the linear and angular velocities for locomotion control. Tuning parameters in the nonlinear controller (in Method 1) are selected to satisfy various design criteria, such as stability, performance, and robustness. Method 1 has certain limitations that result in a decrease of the performance criteria specified. Strong nonlinearities in the mobile robot system result in accumulated errors. To enhance performance further, we developed Method 2 as the solution for decreasing cumulative errors. Hence, the proportional controller is added to Method 1 in the closed-loop form in order to eliminate errors. The advantage of Method 2 is that it can cope with strong nonlinearities in the mobile vehicle system. The results of the performances of Method 1 and Method 2 are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of both methods, and also the better performance of Method 2. The two new methods are effective in stable-target tracking, yielding an increase in performance and stability.