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... Bernhagen, Mark Blyth, Brian Burgoon, Walter Dean Burnham, Marius Busemeyer, John Campbell, Giovanni Capoccia, Jonathan Chausovsky, Peter Munk Christiansen, David Coates, David Coen, Bob Cox, Thomas Cusack, Bodil Damgaard, Charlie Dannreuther, Frank ...

This article presents an oral health (OH) strategy and pilot study focusing on individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) living in group homes. The strategy consists of four components: (1) planned action in the form of the behavioral contract and caregiver OH action planning; (2) capacity building through didactic and observation learning training; (3) environmental adaptations consisting of additional oral heath devices and strategies to create a calm atmosphere; and (4) reinforcement by post-training coaching. A pilot study was conducted consisting of pre- and post-assessment data collected 1 week before and 1 week after implementing a 1-month OH strategy. The study sample comprised 11 group homes with 21 caregivers and 25 residents with IDD from one service organization in a Midwestern city. A process evaluation found high-quality implementation of the OH strategy as measured by dosage, fidelity, and caregiver reactions to implementing the strategy. U...

This paper describes the UNESP robotic team in the medical trash collector task, proposed on the 5th IEEE Latin American Robots Competition in the LEGO category. We present our understanding of the task and discuss the proposed solution, focusing on the mechanical and computational issues of the robots. The mechanics is based on rigid body capability of transforming rotational into curvilinear movement. With respect to the computational control, the system is modeled as a reactive system with sequential transition of behaviors. A state-machine is proposed to allow this transition, and the synchronization of robotic states is guaranteed by the communication system. The proposed approach has shown itself capable of dealing with the high difficulty degree of this cooperative task

This paper describes work done at ITESM-CEM to develop a team for RoboCup four-legged league. Our efforts have been focused on adapting the core code of GT 2004 to our own vision, strategy and communication systems. The result is a team that can play soccer in a unified manner and that serves as a test bed for more research on vision, collaboration, strategies and communication between robots

Abstract In this work, we describe our project for developing an educational software to be used in the implementation of a new paradigm of digital inclusion. The proposed software allows people with no previous knowledge in robotics to control and program LEGO ...

... Samuel Azevedo, Akynara Silva, and Luiz Gonçalves are with the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, 59.072-970, Natal, RN, Brazil, Phone +55 84 3215-3771 arizla@gmail.com, repitta@gmail.com, samuel.azevedo@gmail.com ...

This paper describes the UNESP robotic team in the medical trash collector task, proposed on the 5th IEEE Latin American Robots Competition in the LEGO category. We present our understanding of the task and discuss the proposed solution, focusing on the mechanical and computational issues of the robots. The mechanics is based on rigid body capability of transforming rotational into curvilinear movement. With respect to the computational control, the system is modeled as a reactive system with sequential transition of behaviors. A state-machine is proposed to allow this transition, and the synchronization of robotic states is guaranteed by the communication system. The proposed approach has shown itself capable of dealing with the high difficulty degree of this cooperative task

This paper describes work done at ITESM-CEM to develop a team for RoboCup four-legged league. Our efforts have been focused on adapting the core code of GT 2004 to our own vision, strategy and communication systems. The result is a team that can play soccer in a unified manner and that serves as a test bed for more research on vision, collaboration, strategies and communication between robots

In this work, we describe our project for developing an educational software to be used in the implementation of a new paradigm of digital inclusion. The proposed software allows people with no previous knowledge in robotics to control and program LEGO prototypes. It is a new kind of educational software for robotics, mainly pointed to teach basic computer skills and basic robotics concepts to children at elementary school. In contrast, projects involving digital inclusion are strongly pointed to the use of computers and Internet. Robots have a greater potential to be accepted by people in comparison with computers then it could be added in digital inclusion projects in a simple fashion. Thus, software for teaching to control, program and use these robots is necessary. Software for programming LEGO robots is not easy to understand and use. Then, the proposed software represents a good option for teaching robotics when working with children and people not familiarized with technology. We show experimental results in which digitally excluded children accept in a natural way technologies involving computers and robots by using the proposed software

In this paper, it is presented the development of an innovative and low-cost robotic mobile system to be employed in inspection of underground electrical distribution lines and pipes. The system is composed of a robot with different sensors (infrared, acoustic, and FEF) which permit to move inside pipes and detect overheated points, partial electrical discharges and the occurrence of cable treeing. It is showed the mechanical structure of the robot, the overall architecture of the system and preliminary results.