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Henderson, Thomas C. | Logical behaviors | In this paper we describe an approach to high-level multisensor integration in t h e context of an autonomous mobile robot. Previous papers have described the development of t h e INRIA mobile robot subsystems: 1. sensor and actuator systems 2. distance and range analysis 3. feature extraction ... | Multisensor integration; 3-D environment descriptions | 1989 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | Workshop on multisensor integration in manufacturing automation | Many people helped make the Workshop a success, but special thanks must be given to Howard Moraff for his support, and to Vicky Jackson for her efforts in making things run smoothly. Finally, thanks to Jake Aggarwal for helping to start the ball rolling. | multisensor integration; manufacturing automation | 1987 |
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Sobh, Tarek M.; Henderson, Thomas C. | URK: Utah robot kit - A 3-link robot manipulator prototype | In designing robot manipulators, the interaction between several modules (S/W, VLSI, CAD, CAM, Robotics, and Control) illustrates an interdisciplinary prototyping environment that includes different types of information that are radically different but combined in a coordinated way. This paper descr... | URK; Utah Robot Kit; robot manipulators; prototyping environment | 1994 |
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Hansen, Charles D.; Henderson, Thomas C. | CAD-based robotics | We describe an approach which facilitates and makes explicit the organization of the knowledge necessary to map robotic system requirements onto an appropriate assembly of algorithms, processors, sensor, and actuators. In order to achieve this mapping, several kinds of knowledge are needed. In this ... | CAD-based robotics; CAD-based vision; CAGD System | 1987 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | An annotated bibligraphy of multisensor integration | In this paper we give an annotated bibliography of the multisensor integration literature. | Multisensor integration; Bibligraphy | 1988 |
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Sobh, Tarek M.; Henderson, Thomas C. | URK: Utah robot kit - a three-link robot prototype | In this paper we will present the stages of designing and building a three-link robot manipulator prototype that was built as part of a research project for establishing a prototyping environment for robot manipulators. Building this robot enabled us determine the required subsystems and interfaces ... | URK; Utah robot kit; robot manipulator prototype; prototyping environment; robot manipulators; three-link | 1994 |
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Sobh, Tarek M.; Henderson, Thomas C. | Prototyping environment for robot manipulators | Prototyping is an important activity in engineering. Prototype development is a good test for checking the viability of a proposed system. Prototypes can also help in determining system parameters, ranges, or in designing better systems. We are proposing a prototyping environment for electro-mechani... | Prototyping; Robot manipulators | 1993 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | Flat surface reconstruction using sonar | A technique is given for the recovery of planar surfaces using two beam-spread sonar readings. If a single, planar surface gave rise to the two readings, then the method recovers the surface quite accurately. Simulation and experiment demonstrate the effectiveness of the technique and recommend its ... | Flat surfaces; Reconstruction; Two beam-spread; Sonar readings; Planar surfaces | 1996 |
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Hansen, Charles D.; Henderson, Thomas C. | CAD-based 3-D object recognition | We propose an approach to 3-D object recognition using CAD-based geometry models for freeform surfaces. Geometry is modeled with rational B-splines by defining surface patches and then combining these into a volumetric model of the object. Characteristic features are then extracted from this model ... | Object recognition; Strategy trees; Geometric knowledge representation; Automatic feature selection | 1989 |
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Sobh, Tarek M.; Henderson, Thomas C. | Robotic prototyping environment (Progress report) | Prototyping is an important activity in engineering. Prototype development is a good test for checking the viability of a proposed system. Prototypes can also help in determining system parameters, ranges, or in designing better systems. The interaction between several modules (e.g., S/W, VLSI, CAD,... | Prototyping; Prototyping environment; Robotic prototyping | 1994 |
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Bruderlin, Beat | A new approach to tolerance analysis | Tolerance analysis is seen as part of a more general problem, namely handling data with uncertainty. Uncertain geometric data arises when interpreting measured data, but also in solid modeling where floating point approximations are common, when representing design tolerances, or when dealing with l... | Tolerance analysis | 1994 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | EGOR: design, development, implementation an entry in the 1994 AAAI robot competition | EGOR, an entry in the 1994 AAAI Robot Competition, was built by ate am from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Utah. The constraints imposed by the competition rules, and by cost and time, led to the development of a system composed of off-the- shelf parts based on a mobile bas... | EGOR; AAAI Robot Competition | 1994 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | A survey of dextrous manipulation | The development of mechanical end effectors capable of dextrous manipulation is a rapidly growing and quite successful field of research. It has in some sense put the focus on control issues, in particular, how to control these remarkably humanlike manipulators to perform the deft movement that we t... | Dextrous manipulation | 1986 |
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Henderson, Thomas C.; Cohen, Elaine | Symmetry as an organizational principle in cognitive sensor networks | Cognitive sensor networks are able to perceive, learn, reason and act by means of a distributed, sensor/actuator, computation and communication system. In animals, cognitive capabilities do not arise from a tabula rasa, but are due in large part to the intrinsic architecture (genetics) of the ani... | Cognitive sensor networks | 2009 |
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Sobh, Tarek M. | A graphical environment and applications for discrete event and hybrid systems in robotics and automation | In this paper we present an overview for the development of a graphical environment for simulating, analyzing, synthesizing, monitoring, and controlling complex discrete event and hybrid systems within the robotics, automation, and intelligent system domain. We start by presenting an overview of di... | Intelligent system domain; Graphical environment | 1994 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | Zo: A framework for autonomous agent behavior specification and analysis | We describe a framework for the specification and analysis of autonomous agents1 . In general, such agents require several levels of behavioral specifications, including: low-level reflex actions, mid-level controllers to deal with the physical aspects of the world, and highlevel representations for... | Z-Infinity; Autonomous agents; Behavior | 1990 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | High-level planning for dextrous manipulation | The development of mechanical end effectors capable of dextrous manipulation is a rapidly growing and quite successful field of research. It has in some sense put the focus on control issues, in particular, how to control these remarkably anthropomorphic manipulators to perform the deft movement tha... | Mechanical end effectors; Dextrous manipulation | 1987 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | Received signal strength based bearing-only robot navigation in a sensor network field | This paper presents a low-complexity, novel approach to wireless sensor network (WSN) assisted autonomous mobile robot (AMR) navigation. The goal is to have an AMR navigate to a target location using only the information inherent to WSNs, i.e., topology of the WSN and received signal strength (RSS) ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | Target-directed navigation using wireless sensor networks and implicit surface interpolation | Abstract-This paper extends the novel research for event localization and target-directed navigation using a deployed wireless sensor network (WSN) [4]. The goal is to have an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) navigate to a target-location by: (i) producing an artificial magnitude distribution within th... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Henderson, Thomas C.; Sikorski, Christopher | Symmetry: a basis for sensorimotor reconstruction | Given a set of unknown sensors and actuators, sensorimotor reconstruction is achieved by exploiting relations between the sensor data and the actuator control data to determine sets of similar sensors, sets of similar actuators, necessary relations between them, as well as sensorimotor relations ... | sensorimotor reconstruction; sensor data; actuator control data | 2011 |
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Henderson, Thomas C.; Cohen, Elaine | Innate theories as a basis for autonomous mental development | Sloman (in robotics), Chomsky and Pinker (in natural language), and others, e.g., Rosenberg (in human cooperative behavior) have proposed that some abstract theories relevant to cognitive activity are encoded genetically in humans. The biological advantages of this are (1) to reduce the learning ... | Autonomous mental development | 2009 |
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Henderson, Thomas C.; Sikorski, Christopher | Computational sensor networks | We propose Computational Sensor Networks as a methodology to exploit models of physical phenomena in order to better understand the structure of the sensor network. To do so, it is necessary to relate changes in the sensed variables (e.g., temperature) to the aspect of interest in the sensor netw... | Computational sensor networks | 2007 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | Instrumented sensor system architecture | Sensor systems are becoming ubiquitous throughout society, yet their design, construction and operation is still more of an art than a science. In this paper, we define, develop, and apply a formal semantics for sensor systems that provides a theoretical framework for an integrated software architec... | Instrumented sensor system; Instrumented Logical Sensor Systems; ILSS | 1997 |
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Sobh, Tarek M. | Sensor-based distributed control scheme for mobile robots | In this paper we present a sensor-based distributed control scheme for mobile robots. This scheme combines centralized and decentralized control strategies. A server-client model is used to implement this scheme where the server is a process that caries out the commands to be executed, and each clie... | Sensor-based; Distributed control scheme | 1995 |
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Sobh, Tarek M. | A survey on sensor classifications for industrial applications | The importance of sensors in industrial applications is a result of the introduction of many robotics, automation, and intelligent control techniques into factory floors. Research and improvements need to be continuously performed to meet the challenges in automation and manufacturing applications i... | Sensor classifications; Industrial applications; Sensors | 1995 |
