ZTS Výskumno-Vývojový Ústav (Slovakia)

The increasing global concern regarding humane pest control methods and the need for effective small mammal management in various environments have prompted the development of innovative technologies. This paper presents our ongoing design of a novel smart non-lethal trap prototype for small animals equipped with an ESP32-CAM and PIR sensor. To differentiate between domestic pets and rodents, ResNet50 is utilised and capable of classifying five animals: cats, dogs, martens, rat or mice, and hedgehogs. Traditional rodent control methods often rely on lethal means, which pose ethical and ecological challenges. Most pest control businesses also use the labour-intensive strategy of physically setting up and maintaining rodenticide bait stations on a commercial basis. To address these issues, our prototype leverages the capabilities of the ESP32-CAM to create an intelligent non-lethal trapping solution with the ability to remotely free unwanted captured animals via the cloud.

В условиях постиндустриализма изменяются содержание и характер труда и создаваемой им стоимости. Трудовая стоимость во все большей степени становится результатом не физического, а умственного (интелектуального) труда, причем творческого (креативного) труда. Соответственно и трудовая стоимость оказывается не абстрактной величиной — средних затрат общественно-необходимого физического труда, а синергетическим результатом интеллектуальной и творческой деятельности человека. Именно этот компонент труда — креативность — и связанные с нею совершенство, неповторимость, уникальность сегодня определяют социальную и профессиональную востребованность самих работников. Поэтому актуальным и своевременным является анализ социально-онтологических оснований нового качества трудовой стоимости в современных условиях.

Senior population is one of major social work and healthcare issues in highly developed countries. The aim of this study was assessing the late psychosocial consequences in seniors in Vienna and Bratislava after the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemics. The results suggest that elderly patients in contrast to children and adolescents suffer significantly more late psychosocial consequences after having coronavirus acute or chronic di- sease.

There are often designed such constructional elements in the engineering practice that are specified for sensing of operational loading and for a precise setting of the individual components in the given technical device, for example components of a robot arm. Positioning of the robot arms is regulated by means of power output setting (or torque setting) of the driving parts (motors) predominately. Driving effect is transferred between the individual components by means of the connecting parts designed for transfer of force flow. There is described in this paper such design of modification for constructional element of the robot arm, which enables to perform measuring of torque in the joining parts of the robot arm during a current operation.

Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT wydaje czasopisma fachowe informujące swoich czytelników o najnowszych osiągnięciach naukowych i nowoczesnych rozwiązaniach technicznych w Polsce i na świecie, popularyzuje problemy techniczne oraz poszerza wiedzę i kulturę techniczną.

Many service mobile robots have an articulated robotic manipulator mounted on their platform. The mobile platform extends the workspace of the arm, whereas the arm offers several operational functionalities. The basic idea is to mount two cameras to the robotic arm. One camera provides the perception of the surrounding environment and navigation of the robot, the second one located on the robot arm provides for the perception of the object of cooperation. This paper deals with an early-stage design process of the mentioned robotic manipulator using dual visual perception. It includes kinematic, dynamic and stress-strength analysis. For the kinematic analysis the homogeneous matrix method and for dynamic analysis the Newton-Euler method has been used. These analyses are required for control solution.