Year: 2017

Space is a hostile environment. There is no air and, with little or no atmosphere for protection, everything gets very hot when the sun shines and very cold when it doesn’t. Robots can handle these […]

A computer is the brain of every robot, it is the logic engine and ultimately the controller. The computer is the second of the required three components that a robot must have, the other two […]

In the past battlefields were specific, strategically chosen locations. With the exception of ambushes, wars of the past have a sense of locality about them. On the contrary, today’s armed forces no longer have that […]

A robot is a machine, usually equipped with arms, wheels or legs, that operates automatically. The majority of robots are to be found in industries such as car manufacturing, where they are used to do […]

Toyota has confirmed a billion dollar investment into Silicon Valley, which is set to create 100s of new jobs in the emerging robotics industry there. The new Toyota Research Institute will focus on the following […]

[This article is based on the MSc thesis ‘A Photometric Stereo Approach to Face Recognition‘ by Roger Woodman]During recent times traditional personal identification methods have come under much scrutiny. This has mainly been due to increase […]

Introduction  Inverted Pendulum (or Cart and Pole) Fuzzy logic systems have been seen by many to be an alternative method of control, to more classical approaches, such as PID controllers. The main advantage of fuzzy […]

IntroductionThis page compares and contrasts a number of Adaptive Heuristic Critic (AHC) algorithms, designed to explore a simulated 2D grid for a goal value. Learning is achieved with the use of a Temporal Difference (TD).The […]