Biomimetics -- Materials, Structures and Processes
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The goal of Ambient Assisted Living Systems is to provide automated technological aids for the elderly to allow for longer independent living in one’s own premises without the need for transition to stationary...
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In an ambient assisted living project, a novel way to be proposed in order to protect privacy, increase comfort and safety: a system that with different kinds of sensors installed in the living environment and...
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A novel approach to equip robots with human-like capabilities is to use meta-psychology – the theoretic foundation of psychoanalysis. We used meta-psychology as archetype for a decision making framework to con...
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Current cognitive vision systems and autonomous robots are not able to flexibly adapt to novel scenes. For example, when entering a new kitchen it is relatively simple for humans to adapt to the new situation....
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Automation systems strongly depend on the amount, quality, and richness of their sensor information. For decades, scientists have investigated towards more accurate and cheaper sensors as well as new sensors f...
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We propose a novel way for ambient assisted living: a system that with motion detector to observe the daily activities of the elderly, build the daily activity model of the user. In case of unusual activities ...
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Intelligent machines are really an old mankind’s dream. With increasing technological development, the requirements for intelligent devices also increased. However, up to know, artificial intelligence (AI) lac...
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Wenn wir in der Automatisierung oder der KI Maschinen auf hohem Abstraktionslevel entscheiden lassen wollen, müssen wir uns nach bionischen Überlegungen mit Gefühlen naturwissenschaftlich auseinandersetzen. Na...
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Artificial Intelligence, the big promise of the last millennium, has apparently made its way into our daily lives. Cell phones with speech control, evolutionary computing in data mining or power grids, optimiz...
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Es steht ein Paradigmenwechsel der kognitiven Wissenschaften im technischen Bereich bevor. Er ist auch notwendig, denn in der Automation sucht man dringend Lösungen, um komplexe Prozesse zu beherrschen, und di...
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