CHAMP: a Bespoke Integrated System for Mobile Manipulation
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This document summarizes the ConteCnHtsAMP mobile manipulation system developed by researchers at the CSIR in South Africa. The system integrates a Powerbot AGV mobile base with a Barrett WAM 7 degree of freedom manipulator and Barrett hand. It was developed to research applications in healthcare, search and rescue, and assisted living. The system integration involved individually operating the mobile base and manipulator, establishing network communication between them, and integrating their hardware and software control. The resulting CHAMP system has a 1 meter reach, 6 km/h speed, can lift 2kg with its gripper, and operates for 2-3 hours on battery power. Future work will focus on autonomous operation, machine learning, and
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To tackle the threat of obfuscated malware, our study proposes an image-based detection method that combines four types of informationbyte values, entropy, semantic information, and bigrams frequencyfrom Windows PE executable files. Proposed method is evaluated in a realistic environment containing both obfuscated and non-obfuscated benign and malicious files. Evaluation results show that combining these information types achieves 88.66% accuracy, demonstrating the effectiveness of information combination for detecting obfuscated malware.
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The word comes from the Latin word meaning a sweets melling fluid contain the essence of flowers and other substances. Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oil and aroma compounds Fragrances used for external applications such as spray perfumes, body care, homecare, cosmetics, soaps and detergents.How Psychology Can Power Product Decisions: A Human-Centered Blueprint- Shray...
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In an era where users are bombarded with endless choices, capturing attention and driving meaningful engagement isn't just about building features it's about understanding what drives human behavior at its core. This presentation offers a deep dive into how psychological principles can inform smarter, more intuitive product decisions. Its not just theory its a hands-on blueprint for applying human-centered thinking at every stage of product development.
Grounded in behavioral science, consumer psychology, and cognitive design, this deck unpacks the key psychological drivers behind user motivation, decision-making, emotional engagement, and habit formation. From attention economics and dopamine-driven interactions to trust cues, loss aversion, and the paradox of choice you'll see how to harness what the mind naturally does to build digital products people dont just use they return to, talk about, and even advocate for.
Well explore:
Cognitive biases that shape user perception and choices and how to use them to your advantage without crossing ethical lines.
Emotional design principles that build trust, trigger desire, and turn features into feelings.
User behavior loops that build stickiness, deepen retention, and create emotional investments.
Psychological friction when to reduce it for conversion, and when to add it for intentionality.
Dark patterns vs. ethical persuasion the thin line between influence and manipulation.
A/B testing with a psychological lens learning not just what works, but why it works.
This is more than UX research or product marketing fluff. Its a call to build with empathy, backed by science, and sharpened by real-world product thinking. Whether youre shaping onboarding flows, gamifying engagement, designing pricing models, or rethinking retention strategies this deck will arm you with a new lens: the human mind.
Perfect for product managers, growth strategists, UX designers, behavioral scientists, and anyone serious about building products that resonate, retain, and inspire action.
Because at the heart of every great product is a human.
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They say Artificial Intelligence will solve that problem in a jiffy. They are telling you a tall tale straight from Mark Twains trove. It may compare with The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
Only a maximum of twelve languages will be able to have an AI, hence translation machines, because only them will have a big enough LLM to be able to produce and train an Artificial Intelligence.
Thats the positive element.
But on the negative side, several (many) thousand languages will not be able to have an AI, hence a translation machine.
The real danger is the homogenization of AI-compatible languages and the statistical customization of all languages on the pattern of these twelve languages. You must be joking! On the model of only ONE AI-compatible language, English, and all other languages will be in contact with this English-Norm, and all languages will follow the AI-customized English that all machines, all media, and all people will be repeating after the AI translation machine: My tailor is rich, the first sentence of L'Anglais sans peine, the first work in the Assimil method for learning English, written by Alphonse Ch辿rel in 1929.
Is that the future of humanity, or the bad nightmare of a cat lost in the jigsaw puzzle of a supernatural spiritual Cat Country?
Or maybe the Time Machine that will take us to paradise in a universe at least three million light years away from this dirty earth, in whose mud we are swaddling ourselves piggishly.
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CHAMP: a Bespoke Integrated System for Mobile Manipulation
- 1. ConteCnHtsAMP: a Bespoke Integrated System for Mobile Manipulation Beatrice van Eden, Benjamin Rosman, Daniel Withey, Terence Ratshidaho, Mogomotsi Keaikitse, Ditebogo Masha, Ashley Kleinhans, and Ahmed Shaik Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems (MIAS) Modelling and Digital Science (MDS) Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) South Africa RobMech/PRASA/Aflat conference - 28 November 2014
- 2. Content Introduction Examples of mobile manipulators System integration Hardware integration Software integration Conclusion 2
- 3. Introduction Why Mobile Manipulators? 3 Healthcare and rehabilitation Search and rescue Assistant living Why integration? Decrease in hardware and sensor cost Commercially available systems Customised Capability in system integration What were our requirements? Available resources Research in robotics Increased flexibility Shakey Stanford Research Institute. (1966 1972)
- 4. Examples of Mobile Manipulators 1. Complete off-the-shelf mobile manipulators 2. Custom build systems not commercially available 3. Bespoke platforms assembled from other robots 4
- 5. Examples of Mobile Manipulators 1. Complete off-the-shelf mobile manipulators 5 PR2 Willow Garage UBR1 Unbounded Robotics KUKA youBot Care-O-Bot Fraunhofer IPA
- 6. Examples of Mobile Manipulators 2. Custom build systems not commercially available WENDY Waseda University (TWENDY-ONE) Ubot-5 UMass Amherst 6 ARMAR-III Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Robonaut - NASA Golem Krang Georgia Institute of Technology Rollin Justin - DLR
- 7. Examples of Mobile Manipulators 3. Bespoke platforms assembled from other robots. 7 UMAN Umass TUM-Rosie Technische Universitat Munchen HERB Carnegie Mellon University
- 8. CHAMP CSIR Hybrid Autonomous Mobile Manipulator Platform 8
- 9. System Integration High level overview 9 Powerbot AGV Adept MobileRobots 100kg payload 6km/h Lead-acid batteries 2,112 watt-hours at 24VDC power 0.9m x 0.66m x 0.48m 24 Sonar transceivers range sensing Pressure sensor bumpers Driven by open-system Advanced Robot Control and Operation Software (ARCOS). Client software Advanced Robotic Interface for Application (ARIA). Barrett WAM 7DoF Light weight, cable driven No torque 27W DC required 45W required with torque applied 800W maximum possible draw 2kg payload Barrett hand 3 fingers
- 10. System Integration 10 Three steps Individual operation Network communication Hardware and software integration
- 11. Hardware Integration Hardware integration 11
- 12. CHAMP System overview CHAMP 12 1m reach 6km/h Gripper that can lift 2kg 2-3 hours operation time
- 13. Software Integration Software integration 13
- 14. Show and Tell Current research platform in operation 14
- 15. Conclusion Future work 15 Autonomous operation Machine learning Active vision
- 16. Thank you Beatrice van Eden (bveden@csir.co.za)