An idealized 1:2 scale demonstrator and a numerical parameter optimization algorithm are proposed to closely reproduce the deformation shape and, thus, spatial strain directions of a real aerodynamically loaded civil aircraft spoiler using only four...
American Sign Language (ASL) makes extensive use of pointing signs, but there has been only limited documentation of how pointing signs are used for demonstrative functions. We elicited demonstratives from four adult Deaf signers of ASL in a puzzle c...
A major challenge for robots that provide physical assistance is adapting to the needs of different people. To overcome this, personalised assistive models can be created by observing the demonstrations of help provided by an assistant, a setting kno...
Fish are capable of learning complex relations found in their surroundings, and harnessing their knowledge may help to improve the autonomy and adaptability of robots. Here, we propose a novel learning from demonstration framework to generate fish-in...
Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) is a traffic management system enabling drones to safely and efficiently fly in low-altitude airspace below 120~150m (400~500ft). UTM provides services such as communication, flight route management,...
Learning from demonstration (LfD) has been used to help robots to implement manipulation tasks autonomously, in particular, to learn manipulation behaviors from observing the motion executed by human demonstrators. This paper reviews recent research...
This article provides an overview of the literature on demonstration projects and trials, and accounts for how insights drawn from this literature can contribute to the development of a sustainable bioeconomy. The article reviews the literature on de...
To lead up to and coincide with FIFA World Cup to be hosted by South Africa in 2010, SANERI is implementing a Green Transport Demonstration Project. The purpose is to showcase clean energy and green transport technologies in order to confirm serio...
Programming by demonstration (PBD) is a technique which allows end users to create, modify, accommodate, and expand programs by demonstrating what the program is supposed to do. Although the ideal of common-purpose programming by demonstration or by...
Robotic arms have been widely used in various industries and have the advantages of cost savings, high productivity, and efficiency. Although robotic arms are good at increasing efficiency in repetitive tasks, they still need to be re-programmed and...
Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a practical method for transferring skill knowledge from a human demonstrator to a robot. Several studies have shown the effectiveness of LfD in robotic grasping tasks to improve the success rate of grasping and t...
Robot grasping constitutes an essential capability in fulfilling the complexities of advanced industrial operations. This field has been extensively investigated to address a range of practical applications. However, the generation of a stable grasp...
Collaborative robots face barriers to widespread adoption due to the complexity of programming them to achieve human-like movement. Learning from demonstration (LfD) has emerged as a crucial solution, allowing robots to learn tasks directly from expe...
We propose a novel approach for robotic industrial insertion tasks using the Programming by Demonstration technique. Our method allows robots to learn a high-precision task by observing human demonstration once, without requiring any prior knowledge...
This paper provides a structured and practical roadmap for practitioners to integrate learning from demonstration (LfD) into manufacturing tasks, with a specific focus on industrial manipulators. Motivated by the paradigm shift from mass production t...
This work presents a method to utilise only haptic information in successfully completing a threaded insertion. We derive the insights for this task from human demonstrations and highlight the sufficiency of haptic data in this application, without t...
The insufficient generalisation capability of the conventional learning from demonstration (LfD) model necessitates redemonstrations. In addition, retraining the model can overwrite existing knowledge, making it impossible to perform previously acqui...
With the advancement of farmer professional cooperatives in China, the prevalence of the “empty shell” phenomenon has posed a significant challenge to the health and sustainability of these cooperatives. Utilizing data from 1570 such coop...
Structure–property reasoning (SPR) is one of the most important aims of chemistry education but is seldom explicitly taught, and students find structure–property reasoning difficult. This study assessed two design principles for the development of st...
The “Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project,” also known as the National Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Learning Demonstration, is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project started in 2004 and concluded in late...
This paper presents an n-dimensional reduction algorithm for Learning from Demonstration (LfD) for robotic path planning, addressing the complexity of high-dimensional data. The method extends the Douglas–Peucker algorithm by incorporating velo...
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Agricultural cooperatives are professional organizations that increase farmers’ incomes through market failure corrections, livelihood resilience, and sustainable rural development. The main purpose of this paper was to evaluate the policy effe...
Teaching robots to learn through human demonstrations is a natural and direct method, and virtual reality technology is an effective way to achieve fast and realistic demonstrations. In this paper, we construct a virtual reality demonstration system...
The penetration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an essential and important link in modern warfare. Enhancing UAV’s ability of autonomous penetration through machine learning has become a research hotspot. However, the current generation o...
This study presents a virtual demonstration of the electrical environmental control system (eECS) in its relevant environment, showcasing a novel collaborative approach based on extensive model exchange between partners. This methodology enabled an a...
In order to enable robots to be more intelligent and flexible, one way is to let robots learn human control strategy from demonstrations. It is a useful methodology, in contrast to traditional preprograming methods, in which robots are required to sh...
Definition and imagination of an ideal city can be traced back to the origin of garden city in UK about 100 years ago. Since then, many different names and topics have been proposed and smart city is the one most recently proposed. Starting from 2000...
Protest demonstrations are a manifestation of fundamental rights. Authorities are responsible for guiding protesters safely along predefined routes, typically set in an urban built environment. Microscopic crowd simulations support decision-makers in...
The world is living the fourth industrial revolution, marked by the increasing intelligence and automation of manufacturing systems. Nevertheless, there are types of tasks that are too complex or too expensive to be fully automated, it would be more...
The production of short-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (scl-PHAs) from municipal solid waste-derived volatile fatty acids (VFAs) has been demonstrated. The objective of the study was to evaluate the technical feasibility of the process under real...
The education field has been striving to develop STEM teaching and learning methodologies that effectively integrate subject knowledge across disciplines and connect it to daily life. Many teachers believe that practical work can help students better...
Statistical power analyses are used in the design of experiments to determine the required number of specimens, and thus the expenditure, of a test. Commonly, when analyzing and planning life tests of technical products, only the confidence level is...
The purpose of this study was to ensure the compliance and safety of a robot’s movements during interactions with the external environment. This paper proposes a control strategy for learning variable impedance characteristics from multiple set...
Tactile spaces as learning environments influence individuals’ attitudes through social embeddedness or interconnections among people, and physical embodiedness through experiencing surroundings, potentially fostering deep commitments. When on-...
We present a thin and elastic tactile sensor glove for teaching dexterous manipulation tasks to robots through human demonstration. The entire glove, including the sensor cells, base layer, and electrical connections, is made from soft and stretchabl...
Smart integration of different energy sectors on islands could serve as a key to achieve their energy independence and carbon neutrality goals and facilitate the large-scale penetration of renewables. Demonstration projects play a vital role in testi...
This work presents the CODEUS platform, which includes a simulation tool together with an online experimental demonstrator to offer analysis and testing flexibility for researchers and developers in Ultrasonic Indoor Positioning Systems (UIPSs). The...
Robot learning from human demonstration pioneers an effective mapping paradigm for endowing robots with human-like operational capabilities. This paper proposes a bio-signal-guided robot adaptive stiffness learning framework grounded in the conclusio...
Concepts empower cognitive intelligence. Extracting flat, nested, and discontinuous name entities and concept mentions from natural language texts is significant for downstream tasks such as concept knowledge graphs. Among the algorithms that uniform...
In this work, a study to design a highly flexible flutter demonstrator for the development and testing of active flutter suppression is presented. Based on the UAV mission, a bi-objective design optimization problem can be formulated. The aeroelastic...
It is considered necessary to implement advanced controllers such as model predictive control (MPC) to utilize the technical flexibility of a building polygeneration system to support the rapidly expanding renewable electricity grid. These can handle...
Solar cooling systems have the advantage of the coincidence between the hours of cooling demand and the hours of solar radiation availability, and they can contribute to reduce the energy consumption in buildings. However, the high cost of thermal so...
Programming by demonstration has shown potential in reducing the technical barriers to teaching complex skills to robots. Dynamic motion primitives (DMPs) are an efficient method of learning trajectories from individual demonstrations using second-or...
A new method of producing robust multi-wire tethers for Coulomb drag applications was developed. The multi-wire structure required for redundancy against the micrometeoroid flux of the space environment is realised through the method of wire twist bo...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operating in complex environments require guaranteed safety mechanisms while maintaining high performance. This study addresses the challenge of ensuring strict flight safety during policy execution by implementing a Con...
Opening doors and drawers will be an important ability for future service robots used in domestic and industrial environments. However, in recent years, the methods for opening doors and drawers have become more diverse and difficult for robots to de...
Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC) is an interdisciplinary research area that has gained attention within the smart manufacturing context. To address changes within manufacturing processes, HRC seeks to combine the impressive physical capabilities...
The “Controlled Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project,” also known as the Fuel Cell Vehicle and Infrastructure Learning Demonstration, is a 5-year U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project started in 2004. The purpose o...
Deictic information is present in every language; yet, there are significant differences as to how exactly such information is encoded, yielding different indexical systems across languages. The availability of cross-linguistic variation in indexical...
The research was aimed at an overview and analysis of the demonstration activities in the Czech Republic dealing with the transfer of innovations for agricultural practice. Several methods were used to compile the national inventory, in particular th...
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