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lang=EN-US>First of all let us introduce ourselves.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>We are a team from the Central Laboratory of Mechatronics and
Instrumentation of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>From the 1<SUP>st</SUP> of February our Team together with 9 other
partners has won a EU FP7 Project “</SPAN><SPAN
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Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US> - SRS” - http://srs-project.eu/<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN>The project focuses on the development and prototyping of
remotely-controlled, semi-autonomous robotic solutions in domestic environments
to support elderly people.</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN>This objective will be realized by the following SRS innovations:
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lang=EN>1) A new intent-based remote control mechanism to enable the robots to
be tele-operated over a real-world communication network robustly.<BR>2) An
adaptive autonomy mechanism to enable a highly efficient task execution for
remotely controlled service robots.<BR>3) A new robotic self-learning mechanism
to enable the robots to learn from their experience.<BR>4) A safety-oriented
framework derived through extensive usability and user acceptance studies that
enable service robots to be effectively deployed into home care
applications.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>he </SPAN><SPAN
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idea, will be </SPAN><SPAN
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with the </SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN
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3</SPAN><SPAN
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from Fraunhofer IPA as a full-size domestic </SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN>and the software will be ROS based.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>We would kindly<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ask You if You
could help us with the following questions according PR2 web interface, since
this will help a lot to us for developing our open source User Interface
:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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files should be placed<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>in
/etc/ros/env? </SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US>- Please could You give us some </SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US> setup</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US>W</SPAN><SPAN
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have tried to setup pr2 sim together with webui stack (apache, python, etc
requirements installed). However we are not able to launch it by opening
http://IP_OF_THE_PR2, </SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US>if You could give us </SPAN><SPAN
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ideas how to configure it would be welcome</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US>, since after installing </SPAN><SPAN
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stack</SPAN><SPAN
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lang=EN-US> we haven’t<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>connected
with PR2, just we have seen a login screen.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Thanks a lot in advance for Your support<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Best Regards<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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