GC Pit Event and Discovery Lab Member Recruitment
Discovery Lab is Looking for New Talented Students
Applications for the 2014 Discovery Lab Student members will be accepted until Sunday, February 9th 2014.
To apply complete the application form, and email your resume and application to Discovery Lab (discoverylab@cis.fiu.edu) or bring them directly to the lab (ECS-232).
We encourage you to visit our GC Pit Event ( Feb 3rd, 10AM – 2PM at GC Pit) and submit it at the event desk.
Application : MembershipApplicantInformation.pdf
Areas of Interest
A. Robotics Project
– TeleBot Project ( Project Demo Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvQNnRpmalY ) –
1) Robot Design & Manufacturing
2) Circuit Design & Embedded Programming
3) Robot Motion Controlling
4) Robot Vision Controlling
5) Human-Robot-Interface Design & Programming
– UAV Project –
1) UAV Design & Programming
B. NASA FUNSAT Team
1) Mathematical physics
2) Physic Simulation Programming
C. Smart Home Project
1) Home Automation System Development
2) Sensor Network
D. Event & Public Relation
1) Web and Event Management
2) Media Relations
3) Public Relations
Efficient Concurrent Operations of Telepresence Avatars
Efficient Concurrent Operations of Telepresence Avatars
Jong-Hoon Kim, Nagarajan Prabakar, Cynthia Tope
Abstract
Telepresence robot extends operation in remote locations as avatars. The remote physical presence application will enable individuals with mobility limitations such as disabled veteran or police officer to perform regular duties through telepresence robots known as avatars or TeleBots. Certain scenarios require many officers to operate on several TeleBots (1:1, 1:many, many:1, or many:many) in the same service area. Thus, we need an intelligent, fault tolerant management system to support these scenarios.
This system requires dynamic resource allocation such as communication bandwidth, battery power, spatial proximity, etc. In addition, conflicts among the concurrent telepresence operations need to be resolved efficiently. We propose a novel architecture that provides a fault tolerant multi telepresence robot Management System. This system will allow us to coordinate the assignment, scheduling, monitoring, and administrating multi telepresence robots and multi operators efficiently. Further, we present strategies to resolve conflicts among concurrent operations.
Full paper : ISR-13_Concurrent_Avatars.pdf
Standardized Linearization and Vectorization Algorithm for Arm Motion Control of A Humanoid Telepresence Robot
Standardized Linearization and Vectorization Algorithm for Arm Motion Control of A Humanoid Telepresence Robot
Michael Waddell, Joel Villasuso, Daniela ChavezGuevera, and Jong-Hoon Kim
Abstract
Recently, the new motion sensor: the Kinect is being used for natural motion retrieval with no additional equipment on the operator, less computational demand, and it is cost effective. But many restrictions apply because the results retrieved from the Kinect include noisy data which disturbs precise and smooth robot motion control. We propose a simple linearization algorithm to improve the accuracy of the data retrieved from the Kinect and designed a vectorization algorithm for converting positions of an operator’s skeleton in three dimensions to robot motions. In this paper, we provide the algorithm and its implementation. Furthermore, we demonstrate the performance of the algorithm using the prototype robot.
Full paper : ISR-13-ArmMotion.pdf
A Smart Multi Telepresence Robot Management System
A Smart Multi Telepresence Robot Management System
Nagarajan Prabakar, Cynthia Tope, and Jong-Hoon Kim
ABSTRACT
Telepresence robot extends operation in remote locations. This feature can be beneficial for several applications, such as subsea exploration, telesurgery, remote physical presence, etc. Especially, the remote physical presence application will enable individuals with mobility limitations such as disabled veteran or police officer to perform regular duties through telepresence robots known as TeleBots. Certain scenarios require more than one TeleBot to operate in the same service area that needs many officers to control many TeleBots. Thus, we need an intelligent, fault tolerant management system to support these scenarios.
This system needs to represent the relationship between the officers and TeleBots that can be 1:1, 1: many, or many:1. Also, it requires dynamic resource allocation such as communication bandwidth, battery power, spatial proximity, etc. In addition, the performance of the system can be affected by network failure, resource shortage, and dynamic changes in service demands and the status of all entities need to be monitored and appropriately reallocated for fault tolerance of the system.
We propose a novel architecture that provides a fault tolerant multi telepresence robot Management System. This system will allow us to coordinate the assignment, scheduling, monitoring, and administrating multi telepresence robots and multi operators efficiently.
In this paper, we present a novel architecture and implementation of the prototype
system, and demonstrate the performance of the system. We analyze the trade-off
between the service and resource allocation, and suggest an optimal approach based on case studies.
Full paper : TeleBotManagementPaper.pdf