In this paper we suggest the use of tangible user interfaces (TUIs) for human-robot interaction (HRI) applications. We discuss the potential benefits of this approach while focusing on low-level of autonomy tasks. We present an experimental robotic interaction test bed to support our investigation. We use the test bed to explore two HRIrelated task-sets: robotic navigation control and robotic posture control. We discuss the implementation of these two task-sets using an AIBO™ robot dog. Both tasks were mapped to two different robotic control interfaces: keypad interface which resembles the interaction approach currently common in HRI, and a gesture input mechanism based on Nintendo Wii™ game controllers. We discuss the interfaces implementation and conclude with a detailed user study for evaluating these different HRI techniques in the two robotic tasks-sets.
We present a method for measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of optical vortices through extracting the phase values sampled by a multipinhole plate. We demonstrate that the phase of an optical vortex passing through a multipinhole plate can be directly extracted from the Fourier transform of a single diffraction intensity pattern according to a simple algorithm and thus the l state or the OAM of the photons can be measured quantitatively.
For the iterative phase retrieval, multiple measured intensity images in output plane are only considered for accelerating the convergence. The amplitude and phase at the observed object plane of measurement system are unknown in this research. The observing system is composed of gyrator transform, in which several images are recorded by using several transform angles for the same input image. An amplitude-phase retrieval scheme is designed and tested. The numerical simulations have demonstrated that the amplitude and phase pattern within a very small error (less than 0.04 and 0.0005 for an 8-bit two-dimensional data) can be recovered after 1000 iterations.
Multiple distance phase retrieval methods hold great promise for imaging and measurement due to their less expensive and compact setup. As one of their implementations, the amplitude-phase retrieval algorithm (APR) can achieve stable and high-accuracy reconstruction. However, it suffers from the slow convergence and the stagnant issue. Here we propose an iterative modality named as weighted feedback to solve this problem. With the plug-ins of single and double feedback, two augmented approaches, i.e. the APRSF and APRDF algorithms, are demonstrated to increase the convergence speed with a factor of two and three in experiments. Furthermore, the APRDF algorithm can extend the multiple distance phase retrieval to the partially coherent illumination and enhance the imaging contrast of both amplitude and phase, which actually relaxes the light source requirement. Thus the weighted feedback enables a fast-converging and high-contrast imaging scheme for the iterative phase retrieval.
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