Title :
Modeling instructible robots for waste disposal applications
Author :
Tsoukalas, Lefteri H. ; Bargiotas, Dimitrios T.
Author_Institution :
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
The storage of high-level radioactive waste in centralized interim storage facilities (CIS) creates a unique and challenging environment for developing and deploying innovative robotic technologies. Limited accessibility and resources as well as difficulties in predicting the behavior of some facility components call for enhanced collaboration between humans and robots and improved capacity for robotic instruction in nearly linguistic terms. We present a neurofuzzy approach for instructing robots operating in such environments and propose a functional architecture for groups of collaborating instructible robots
Keywords :
cooperative systems; fuzzy control; fuzzy neural nets; industrial robots; mobile robots; neurocontrollers; radioactive waste storage; robot programming; CIS; centralized interim storage facilities; collaborating instructible robots; functional architecture; high-level radioactive waste storage; limited accessibility; limited resources; neurofuzzy approach; robotic instruction; waste disposal applications; Automatic control; Collaboration; Computational Intelligence Society; Humans; Radiation detectors; Radioactive waste; Robotic assembly; Robotics and automation; Service robots; Waste disposal;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligence and Systems, 1996., IEEE International Joint Symposia on
Conference_Location :
Rockville, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7728-7
DOI :
10.1109/IJSIS.1996.565070
