© The 2022 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB2022), January 20 to 23, 2022
Robot Technology, and its Development Trend
Takao Ito
Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University
1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-7527, Japan
E-mail: itotakao@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Abstract
Robot technology has been changed dramatically with massive development of internet environment. The author
reviewed a plethora of literature and investigated advanced robot technologies. Today, most of typical robot
technologies are used in single-cause-oriented products, such as robot vacuum cleaner and Asimo, a humanoid robot
invented by Honda. These advanced products played important role in our modern society. For further development,
a networking robot system with advanced technologies of internet and artificial intelligence is required to copy with
the uncertainty in the future. Different technology should be combined and linked together for multiple-goal-oriented
approach in the networking robot system. For evaluating the validity of our new system, a centrality index is
introduced in this research.
Keywords: networking robot system, swarm, optimization, fragility.
1. Introduction
A plethora of studies on robot technology from the
viewpoint of materials engineering, information
processing technology such as pattern recognition and
image processing, artificial intelligence, network, and
biotechnology have been published in the past decades.
However, studies focusing on the review of current robot
technology to clarify its development trend are still
sparse. This paper proposes a new networking robot
system and a critical index to measure the structure of the
system after reviewing the relevant literatures. This paper
contributes to the development of robot technology by:
(1) Identifying one of the future development directions,
and (2) Proposing a new index to measure system
structure to ascertain the effective system for future
development.
This manuscript is structured as follows: Section 2
introduces the background of this research with literature
review. In section 3, the paper explicates networking
robot system, and calculates its structure using a new
index of fragility. Based on our discussion, the study
limitations are identified and directions for future
research are proffered in the final section.
2. Background
A robot is the product of the robotics field, where
programmable machines are built that can assist humans
or mimic human actions while robotics is the intersection
of science, engineering and technology that produces
machines, called robots, that substitute for and/or
replicate human actions [1]. Robot technology has been
recognized as playing an important role not only in
industrial society, but also in our daily life. Recently,
many studies focusing on robot have been published.
A tracking system, also known as a locating system,
one of the important technologies in robotics, is used for
the observing of objects on the move and supplying a
timely ordered sequence of location data for further
processing. A tracking control of a two-wheeled mobile
robot in both kinematic and dynamic models has been
invested [2]. Chen and Jia suggested to use differential
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