Robotic control systems based on bioinspired multi-agent systems: application of the principles of neuroscience to robotics

Robotics is a field that presents a large number of problems because it depends on a large number of disciplines, devices, technologies and tasks. Its expansion from perfectly controlled industrial environments toward open and dynamic environment presents a many new challenges, such as robots household robots or professional robots. To facilitate the rapid development of robotic systems, low cost, reusability of code, its medium and long term maintainability and robustness are required novel approaches to provide generic models and software systems who develop paradigms capable of solving these problems. For this purpose, in this paper we propose a model based on multi-agent systems inspired by the human nervous system able to transfer the control characteristics of the biological system and able to take advantage of the best properties of distributed software systems.

Coeducación en el contexto escolar 1

Presentación de experiencias coeducativas desarrolladas en el CEIP Maestro D. Ricardo Leal de Monóvar (Alicante). Esta escuela fue galardonada con el premio Activa 09 de la Diputación de Alicante al mejor trabajo coeducativo de la Provincia y Mención honorífica del Consejo Escolar Valenciano. La exposición tiene el propósito de proporcionar reflexiones que ayuden al alumnado a desarrollar actitudes que impacten en contra de la desigualdad, y herramientas pedagógicas que favorezcan el aprendizaje y la convivencia en una sociedad de igualdad y respeto.

Coeducación en el contexto escolar 2

Presentación sobre diferentes experiencias coeducativas desarrolladas en el CEIP Maestro D. Ricardo Leal de Monóvar (Alicante). Esta escuela fue galardonada con el premio Activa 09 de la Diputación de Alicante al mejor trabajo coeducativo de la Provincia y Mención honorífica del Consejo Escolar Valenciano. La exposición tiene el propósito de proporcionar reflexiones que ayuden al alumnado a desarrollar actitudes que impacten en contra de la desigualdad y herramientas pedagógicas que favorezcan el aprendizaje y la convivencia en una sociedad de igualdad y respeto.

Coeducación en el contexto escolar 3

Presentación sobre diferentes experiencias coeducativas desarrolladas en el CEIP Maestro D. Ricardo Leal de Monóvar (Alicante). Esta escuela fue galardonada con el premio Activa 09 de la Diputación de Alicante al mejor trabajo coeducativo de la Provincia y Mención honorífica del Consejo Escolar Valenciano. La exposición tiene el propósito de proporcionar reflexiones que ayuden al alumnado a desarrollar actitudes que impacten en contra de la desigualdad y herramientas pedagógicas que favorezcan el aprendizaje y la convivencia en una sociedad de igualdad y respeto.

Coeducación en el contexto escolar 4

Presentación sobre diferentes experiencias coeducativas desarrolladas en el CEIP Maestro D. Ricardo Leal de Monóvar (Alicante). Esta escuela fue galardonada con el premio Activa 09 de la Diputación de Alicante al mejor trabajo coeducativo de la Provincia y Mención honorífica del Consejo Escolar Valenciano. La exposición tiene el propósito de proporcionar reflexiones que ayuden al alumnado a desarrollar actitudes que impacten en contra de la desigualdad y herramientas pedagógicas que favorezcan el aprendizaje y la convivencia en una sociedad de igualdad y respeto.

Coeducación en el contexto escolar 5

Presentación sobre diferentes experiencias coeducativas desarrolladas en el CEIP Maestro D. Ricardo Leal de Monóvar (Alicante). Esta escuela fue galardonada con el premio Activa 09 de la Diputación de Alicante al mejor trabajo coeducativo de la Provincia y Mención honorífica del Consejo Escolar Valenciano. La exposición tiene el propósito de proporcionar reflexiones que ayuden al alumnado a desarrollar actitudes que impacten en contra de la desigualdad y herramientas pedagógicas que favorezcan el aprendizaje y la convivencia en una sociedad de igualdad y respeto.

Coeducación en el contexto escolar 6

Presentación sobre diferentes experiencias coeducativas desarrolladas en el CEIP Maestro D. Ricardo Leal de Monóvar (Alicante). Esta escuela fue galardonada con el premio Activa 09 de la Diputación de Alicante al mejor trabajo coeducativo de la Provincia y Mención honorífica del Consejo Escolar Valenciano. La exposición tiene el propósito de proporcionar reflexiones que ayuden al alumnado a desarrollar actitudes que impacten en contra de la desigualdad y herramientas pedagógicas que favorezcan el aprendizaje y la convivencia en una sociedad de igualdad y respeto.

Coeducación en el contexto escolar 7

Presentación sobre diferentes experiencias coeducativas desarrolladas en el CEIP Maestro D. Ricardo Leal de Monóvar (Alicante). Esta escuela fue galardonada con el premio Activa 09 de la Diputación de Alicante al mejor trabajo coeducativo de la Provincia y Mención honorífica del Consejo Escolar Valenciano. La exposición tiene el propósito de proporcionar reflexiones que ayuden al alumnado a desarrollar actitudes que impacten en contra de la desigualdad y herramientas pedagógicas que favorezcan el aprendizaje y la convivencia en una sociedad de igualdad y respeto.

Multi-agent system for control of robots inspired on the distributed activity and hormonal regulation of humans

Robotics is an emerging field with great activity. Robotics is a field that presents several problems because it depends on a large number of disciplines, technologies, devices and tasks. Its expansion from perfectly controlled industrial environments toward open and dynamic environment presents a many new challenges. New uses are, for example, household robots or professional robots. To facilitate the low cost, rapid development of robotic systems, reusability of code, its medium and long term maintainability and robustness are required novel approaches to provide generic models and software systems who develop paradigms capable of solving these problems. For this purpose, in this paper we propose a model based on multi-agent systems inspired by the human nervous system able to transfer the control characteristics of the biological system and able to take advantage of the best properties of distributed software systems. Specifically, we model the decentralized activity and hormonal variation.

Decomposition of human behavior using model of competencies: application to robotic control system

For many years, humans and machines have shared the same physical space. To facilitate their interaction with humans, their social integration and for more rational behavior has been sought that the robots demonstrate human-like behavior. For this it is necessary to understand how human behavior is generated, discuss what tasks are performed and how relate to themselves, for subsequent implementation in robots. In this paper, we propose a model of competencies based on human neuroregulator system for analysis and decomposition of behavior into functional modules. Using this model allow separate and locate the tasks to be implemented in a robot that displays human-like behavior. As an example, we show the application of model to the autonomous movement behavior on unfamiliar environments and its implementation in various simulated and real robots with different physical configurations and physical devices of different nature. The main result of this work has been to build a model of competencies that is being used to build robotic systems capable of displaying behaviors similar to humans and consider the specific characteristics of robots.

Overcoming resistance to change in business innovation processes

This paper summarizes the experience gained in dealing with resistance to change appeared in the companies when they develop innovative processes related to the adoption of new technologies, tools, equipment, infrastructure and methodologies. Technological innovation is rapidly absorbed by society on a personal level. But at the enterprise level, resistance to innovation can occur at any hierarchical level of the company and may appear with different intensity. Depending on the type of enterprise, the hierarchical level of the employee, the intensity of resistance and other factors, the measures taken are different. In this paper we summarize our experience in the cataloging of the resistance to innovation in terms of impact on workers and showing how technology education and business training can help overcome these resistance forces. This paper describes the experience acquired over 22 projects deployed in the period 2005 to 2011 and that has affected a total of 264 workers of different cultural, technological, business and hierarchical levels.

Data normalization and integration in robotic systems using web services technologies

The robotics is one of the most active areas. We also need to join a large number of disciplines to create robots. With these premises, one problem is the management of information from multiple heterogeneous sources. Each component, hardware or software, produces data with different nature: temporal frequencies, processing needs, size, type, etc. Nowadays, technologies and software engineering paradigms such as service-oriented architectures are applied to solve this problem in other areas. This paper proposes the use of these technologies to implement a robotic control system based on services. This type of system will allow integration and collaborative work of different elements that make up a robotic system.

An exercises editor for an e-learning environment

One of the most important tenets of e-learning is that it bridges work and learning. A great e-learning experience brings learning into the work environment. This is a key point, the capacity to construct a work environment when the student can develop proper tasks to complete the learning process. This paper describes a work environment based on the development of two tools, an exercises editor and an exercises viewer. Both tools are able to manage color images where, because of the implementation of basic steganographic techniques, it is possible to add information, exercises, questions, and so on. The exercises editor allows to decide which information must be visible or remain hidden to the user, when the image is loaded in the exercises viewer. Therefore, it is possible to hide the solutions of the proposed tasks; this is very useful to complete a self-evaluation learning process. These tools constitute a learning architecture with the final objective that learners can apply and practice new concepts or skills.

A viability analysis of a secure VoIP and instant messaging system on a Pocket PC platform

We propose a secure full-duplex VoIP and instant messaging system on a Pocket PC platform, allowing for session key transport using a public-key protocol and encrypted text or voice communication using a private-key algorithm. The full-duplex VoIP scheme presents good performance for long duration communication over LAN networks.

Lightweight peer-to-peer secure multi-party VoIP protocol

Multi-party voice-over-IP (MVoIP) services provide economical and convenient group communication mechanisms for many emerging applications such as distance collaboration systems, on-line meetings and Internet gaming. In this paper, we present a light peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol to provide MVoIP services on small platforms like mobile phones and PDAs. Unlike other proposals, our solution is fully distributed and self-organizing without requiring specialized servers or IP multicast support.