scholarly journals Embodied Intelligence in Soft Robotics Through Hardware Multifunctionality

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Cianchetti
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Soft Robotics ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Flexible Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Interesting Approach ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Embodied Intelligence

The soft robotics community is currently wondering what the future of soft robotics is. Therefore, it is very important to identify the directions in which the community should focus its efforts to consolidate its impact. The identification of convincing applications is a priority, especially to demonstrate that some achievements already represent an attractive alternative to current technological approaches in specific scenarios. However, most of the added value of soft robotics has been only theoretically grasped. Embodied Intelligence, being of these theoretical principles, represents an interesting approach to fully exploit soft robotic’s potential, but a pragmatic application of this theory still remains difficult and very limited. A different design approach could be beneficial, i.e., the integration of a certain degree of continuous adaptability in the hardware functionalities of the robot, namely, a “flexible” design enabled by hardware components able to fulfill multiple functionalities. In this paper this concept of flexible design is introduced along with its main technological and theoretical basic elements. The potential of the approach is demonstrated through a biological comparison and the feasibility is supported by practical examples with state-of-the-art technologies.

scholarly journals Percutaneous Mitral Edge-to-Edge Repair: State of the Art and a Glimpse to the Future

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Khan ◽  
Mirjam Winkel ◽  
Geraldine Ong ◽  
Nicolas Brugger ◽  
Thomas Pilgrim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Grasping Assisting Algorithm in Tele-Operated Robotic Gripper

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2640
Author(s):  
Tomer Fine ◽  
Guy Zaidner ◽  
Amir Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Quality Measures ◽  
Human Operator ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Complete State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Power Grasp ◽  
Grasp Quality

The involvement of Robots and automated machines in different industries has increased drastically in recent years. Part of this revolution is accomplishing tasks previously performed by humans with advanced robots, which would replace the entire human workforce in the future. In some industries the workers are required to complete different operations in hazardous or difficult environments. Operations like these could be replaced with the use of tele-operated systems that have the capability of grasping objects in their surroundings, thus abandoning the need for the physical presence of the human operator at the area while still allowing control. In this research our goal is to create an assisting system that would improve the grasping of a human operator using a tele-operated robotic gripper and arm, while advising the operator but not forcing a solution. For a given set of objects we computed the optimal grasp to be achieved by the gripper, based on two grasp quality measures of our choosing (namely power grasp and precision grasp). We then tested the performance of different human subjects who tried to grasp the different objects with the tele-operated system, while comparing their success to unassisted and assisted grasping. Our goal is to create an assisting algorithm that would compute optimal grasps and might be integrated into a complete, state-of-the-art tele-operated system.

scholarly journals On Western strategy towards Russia: From ‘Putin first’ to ‘democracy first’

European View ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 178168582110033
Author(s):  
Andrius Kubilius
Keyword(s):  
Russian Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Vladimir Putin ◽  
The Eu

The article analyses two distinct approaches that Western leaders have taken to relations with Putin’s Russia. It argues that the dominant approach of fostering good relations with Vladimir Putin, prioritising these over support for longer-term democratic change in Russia, has not brought any results and is damaging the interests of Russian society, neighbouring countries and the West. The article analyses the prerequisites for deep change in Russia and argues that there is a need for the EU to comprehensively review and change its strategy towards Russia, putting democracy at its core. It discusses in detail the deterrence, containment and transformation elements of a new EU strategy. The article emphasises that the strategic approach of ‘democracy first’ in relations with Russia also relates to the future of democracy in general and should be a priority of EU–US cooperation.

scholarly journals Self-Regulating Demand and Supply Equilibrium in Joint Simulation of Travel Demand and a Ride-Pooling Service

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812199714
Author(s):  
Gabriel Wilkes ◽  
Roman Engelhardt ◽  
Lars Briem ◽  
Florian Dandl ◽  
Peter Vortisch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Travel Demand ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Demand Model ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Demand And Supply

This paper presents the coupling of a state-of-the-art ride-pooling fleet simulation package with the mobiTopp travel demand modeling framework. The coupling of both models enables a detailed agent- and activity-based demand model, in which travelers have the option to use ride-pooling based on real-time offers of an optimized ride-pooling operation. On the one hand, this approach allows the application of detailed mode-choice models based on agent-level attributes coming from mobiTopp functionalities. On the other hand, existing state-of-the-art ride-pooling optimization can be applied to utilize the full potential of ride-pooling. The introduced interface allows mode choice based on real-time fleet information and thereby does not require multiple iterations per simulated day to achieve a balance of ride-pooling demand and supply. The introduced methodology is applied to a case study of an example model where in total approximately 70,000 trips are performed. Simulations with a simplified mode-choice model with varying fleet size (0–150 vehicles), fares, and further fleet operators’ settings show that (i) ride-pooling can be a very attractive alternative to existing modes and (ii) the fare model can affect the mode shifts to ride-pooling. Depending on the scenario, the mode share of ride-pooling is between 7.6% and 16.8% and the average distance-weighed occupancy of the ride-pooling fleet varies between 0.75 and 1.17.

scholarly journals What you always wanted to know about the deterministic part of the International Planning Competition (IPC) 2014 (but were too afraid to ask)

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Vallati ◽  
Lukáš Chrpa ◽  
Thomas L. Mccluskey
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Planning ◽  
Planning Approaches

AbstractThe International Planning Competition (IPC) is a prominent event of the artificial intelligence planning community that has been organized since 1998; it aims at fostering the development and comparison of planning approaches, assessing the state-of-the-art in planning and identifying new challenging benchmarks. IPC has a strong impact also outside the planning community, by providing a large number of ready-to-use planning engines and testing pioneering applications of planning techniques.This paper focusses on the deterministic part of IPC 2014, and describes format, participants, benchmarks as well as a thorough analysis of the results. Generally, results of the competition indicates some significant progress, but they also highlight issues and challenges that the planning community will have to face in the future.

scholarly journals Spreading predictability in complex networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Na Zhao ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Yong Yu ◽  
Jun-Yan Zhao ◽  
Duan-Bing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Prediction Model ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Vaccination Strategies ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Good Consistency ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rumor Control

AbstractMany state-of-the-art researches focus on predicting infection scale or threshold in infectious diseases or rumor and give the vaccination strategies correspondingly. In these works, most of them assume that the infection probability and initially infected individuals are known at the very beginning. Generally, infectious diseases or rumor has been spreading for some time when it is noticed. How to predict which individuals will be infected in the future only by knowing the current snapshot becomes a key issue in infectious diseases or rumor control. In this report, a prediction model based on snapshot is presented to predict the potentially infected individuals in the future, not just the macro scale of infection. Experimental results on synthetic and real networks demonstrate that the infected individuals predicted by the model have good consistency with the actual infected ones based on simulations.

Computer-assisted database indexing: the state-of-the-art

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Gail M. Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Data Base ◽  
Production System ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Computer Support ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assistance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Database Indexing ◽  
Operational Systems

Discusses the state-of-the-art in computer indexing, defines indexing and computer assistance, describes the reasons for renewed interest, identifies the types of computer support in use using selected operational systems, describes the integration of various computer supports in one data base production system, and speculates on the future.

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