Browsing by Author "Liu, Jane W. S."

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Kannon: Ubiquitous Sensor Actuator technologies for elderly living and care - A Multidisciplinary Effort in National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
(2006)
Zao, John K.
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Hu, Jwu-Sheng
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Chiou, Jin-Chern
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Huang, Yu-Lun
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Li, Shu-Chen
A team of researchers including computer scientists, electrical and control engineers, architects, industrial designers, human factor engineers, and cognitive scientists in the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, along with their overseas collaborators launched the project Kannon, a multidisciplinary effort to develop Adaptive Assistive Technologies that can be deployed incrementally into existing private/public spaces and collaborate opportunistically to offer monitoring, assisting, communicating and rejuvenating services to healthy elders. The team combined the state-of-art information, communication and robotic know-how with the activity oriented method for product design and the modular functional approach in modern architecture in order to devise a holistic support for successful aging. This paper presents the philosophy, approach and first fruits of this project.
Resource Management for Robotic Applications
(2011-01-01)
Ou, Yi-Zong
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Chu, E. T. -H.
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Lu, Wen-Wei
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Liu, Jane W. S.
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Hung, Ta-Chih
This paper presents Robotic Application Resource Management Services (RARMS), a collection of tools for integrating reusable software components of a wide class of robotic applications on Microsoft Windows, a general-purpose, commodity operating system. RARMS includes (1) a resource allocation tool called RAAPT-HV for partitioning the available processors into a specified number of virtual processors, allocating available resources to virtual processors and assigning robotic software components to virtual processors and (2) a robot-class scheduling service (RC SS) which helps independently developed components prioritize relative to each other in a way that is consistent with their timing requirements. These tools aim to provide time-sensitive components with satisfactory responsiveness in an open environment without serious impact on the performance of other components. To demonstrate the effectiveness of RARMS, we adopted for experimentation and evaluation purposes several commonlyused components of delivery robots, including face detection, speech recognition, video streaming and path planning. The results of our experiments showed that these tools can help to achieve satisfactory performance for these software components of robotic applications.
Smart pantries for homes
(2006)
Hsu, C. F.
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Liao, H. Y. M.
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Hsiu, P. C.
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Lin, Y. S.
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Shih, C. S.
A smart pantry holds non-perishable household supplies and automates the purchasing and delivery of their replenishments. By relieving its user from the chore of keeping the home stocked of essentials, it provides convenience and peace of mind not only to elderly individuals but also busy people of all ages. This paper describes two alternative smart pantry designs and tradeoffs. Underlying methods and technologies used for their implementation are also described.