RobotCub - RobotCub Project
Advanced Robotics

The RobotCub Project

5th February 2017 Razor Robotics 0

RobotCub is an Integrated Project funded by European Commission through its Cognitive Systems and Robotics Unit (E5) under the Information Society Technologies component of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The project was launched on the […]

Face Recognition
Advanced Robotics

Face Recognition

2nd February 2017 Roger Woodman 0

[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 […]

Adaptive Heuristic Critic
Advanced Robotics

Adaptive Heuristic Critic

2nd February 2017 Roger Woodman 0

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 […]

Multitasking Real-Time Operating Systems
Advanced Robotics

Multitasking Real-Time Operating Systems

2nd February 2017 Roger Woodman 0

Multitasking and real-time, in the field of operating systems, are antonymous. Normally all general-purpose operating systems, such as Windows and Mac OS, are multitasking and non real-time. Whereas in the embedded system market operating systems […]