Service robots

Robots, already well-established in the industrial environment, are expected to become part of private households. These service robots could be used as... 

Roman, H.T., and Ranky P. G. (2003-2005), A case-based Introduction to Service robotics, an interactive multimedia eBook publication with 3D objects, text, and videos in a browser-readable format on CD-ROM/intranet, available http //www.cimwareukandusa. 

Because of the multitude of forms and structures as well as application areas, service robots are not easy to define. IFR has adopted a preliminary system for classifying service robots by application... 

Following are examples of application fields for service robots. 

A service robot climbs surfaces on suction cups for deeming (see Figure 25), inspection, painting and assembly tasks. Tools can be mounted on the upper ttansversal axis. Navigation facilities allow accurate and controlled movement. 

Schraft, R. D., Neugebauer, J., and Schmierer, G., Service Robots Products, demonstrators, visions, in Proceedings of ICARCV 98, Fifth international conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (Singapore, December 8-11, 1998). 

Robots will be a part of our everyday lives in the near future. Biomedical applications of both professional and personal service robots are becoming increasingly common. A survey conducted by the United Nations Economic Comission for Europe (UNECE) in conjunction with the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) [2004] estimated that a stock of 21,000 professional service robots at the end of 2003 and projected 75,000 by the end of 2007. These include medical robots, underwater robots, surveillance robots, demolition robots, and many other types of robots for carrying out a multitude of tasks. Medical robots comprised 12% of the 2003 estimates. 

Forlizzi, J. and DiSalvo, C. 2006. Service robots in the domestic environment A study of the Roomba vacuum in the home. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 06, Salt Lake City, 2-4 March, 258-256. New York ACM. 

The customer may also have a safety policy that must be followed by the contractor or those designing the thermal tile servicing robot. As an example, the following is similar to a typical NASA safety poliq ... 

Ever since the definition of robot as a reprogrammable machine , people have predicted that the robot will replace the human worker in the near future. This idea has been realized at least in industry, where it is common for robots to assemble automobiles and relocate heavy loads, which might also be dirty or dangerous to human workers. (It is debatable whether robots can replace workers in performing difficult jobs.) The definition of the robot has continued to evolve to professional and personal service robots and the next area for the application of robots... 

Service robots—EMachines that extend human capabilities. 

Advanced Service Robotics, PROFACTOR Research and Solutions GmbH, 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria A. Melzer, MD... 

Meanwhile, some observers are concerned that the rise of industrial and professional service robots is already eliminating too many jobs held by American workers. Many of the jobs lost in the 2008-2009 recession within the struggling automotive industry, for example, are gone for good, because costly human workers were replaced by cheaper robotic arms. However, the issue is more complicated than that. In certain situations, the addition of robots to a factory s workforce can actually create more jobs for humans. Some companies, for example, have been able to increase production and hire additional workers with the help of robot... 

From Industrial Robots to Service Robots — The Evolution of Machine Intelligence.4-15... 

From industrial robots to service robots — the evolution of machine intelligence. (From Hagele, M. and Schraft, R.D., Present state and furture trends in mechanical systems design for robot application, in The Mechanical Systems Design Handbook, Nwokah, O.D.I., and Hurmuzlu, Y., Eds., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2002, p. 795.)... 

The component model includes technical components of the system, including both hardware and software. Exemplary software components of a service robot in a household could be executable codes for movement control (see figure 2). Other parts of the component model is human, like users, who interact with... 

Furthermore, in the future, our generic approach for risk communication in heterogeneous systems with safety and security requirements has to be specified and evaluated. Practical implementations on selected heterogeneous systems are planed. Exemplary systems are service robots, which manoeuvre in an environment with different obstacles and interact with persons and other technical devices. Safety and security incidents, including interdependencies, should be simulated. On the basis of our model, user specific alarm and warning messages should be generated. 

Siciliano, B. and O. Khatib, eds. 2008. Springer Handbook of Robotics. Berlin Springer. This award-winning handbook is divided into seven parts (Robotics Foundations, Robot Structures, Sensing and Perception, Manipulation and Interfaces, Mobile and Distributed Robotics, Field and Service Robotics, Human-Centered and Life-Like Robotics) with up to 14 chapters per section. Contains a section on further readings at the end of each chapter. 

Although the service-robot market is still immature, the few quantitative studies that have been done indicate that the market for personal-service robots is on the verge of dramatic growth. Recent research by the Japan Robotics Association (JRA), United Nations Economic Commission (UNEC), and International Federation of Robotics (IFR) indicates that the service-robot market will experience exceptional growth, both in the near term (from 600 ntillion in 2002 to... 

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Fotoohi, L., Graser, A. A supervisory control approach for safe behavior of service robot case study Friend. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Apphed Computing, pp. 1305-1306. ACM (2010)... 

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