Academic Articles & Research Papers

Photoresponsive Biomimetic Soft Robots Enabled by Near‐Infrared‐Driven and Ultrarobust Sandwich‐Structured Nanocomposite Films

Soft robots, intelligent structures built up of smart soft materials, are capable of being programmed to perform delicate work. Recently, plenty of biomimetic soft robots with functionalities of grasping, sensing, searching, and transportin...

Multi-Sensor Depth Fusion Framework for Real-Time 3D Reconstruction

For autonomous robots, 3D perception of environment is an essential tool, which can be used to achieve better navigation in an obstacle rich environment. This understanding requires a huge amount of computational resources; therefore, the r...

Electromagnetically Driven Robot for Multipurpose Applications

This paper presents a novel design of a continuum robot driven by electromagnets and springs, offering enhanced precision in multi-degree-of-freedom bending for diverse applications. Traditional continuum robots, while effective in navigati...

Detecting Target Objects by Natural Language Instructions Using an RGB-D Camera

Controlling robots by natural language (NL) is increasingly attracting attention for its versatility, convenience and no need of extensive training for users. Grounding is a crucial challenge of this problem to enable robots to understand N...

Incremental natural language processing for HRI

Robots that interact with humans face-to-face using natural language need to be responsive to the way humans use language in those situations. We propose a psychologically-inspired natural language processing system for robots which perform...

Optimal Frontier-Based Autonomous Exploration in Unconstructed Environment Using RGB-D Sensor

Aerial robots are widely used in search and rescue applications because of their small size and high maneuvering. However, designing an autonomous exploration algorithm is still a challenging and open task, because of the limited payload an...

Techno-economic and environmental assessment of next-generation battery-powered farming robots.

Lightweight Two-Layer Control Architecture for Human-Following Robot

(1) Background: Human detection and tracking are critical tasks for assistive autonomous robots, particularly in ensuring safe and efficient human–robot interaction in indoor environments. The increasing need for personal assistance among t...

Visual servoing for robot control: Learning activities using RoboDKde robots: actividades de aprendizaje con RoboDK

Visual servo control is a key robotic control technique that uses visual feedback to dynamically adjust movements. This study, conducted within the AIM@VET project, evaluates the effectiveness of a RoboDK-based lesson with 25 vocational stu...

Robot Comedy Lab: Experimenting with the Social Dynamics of Live Performance

The success of live comedy depends on a performer's ability to 'work' an audience. Ethnographic studies suggest that this involves the co-ordinated use of subtle social signals such as body orientation, gesture, gaze by both performers and ...

DAPS3D: Domain Adaptive Projective Segmentation of 3D LiDAR Point Clouds

LiDARs are one of the key sources of reliable environmental ranging information for autonomous vehicles. However, segmentation of 3D scene elements (roads, buildings, people, cars, etc.) based on LiDAR point clouds has limitations. On the o...

Camera Calibration in High-Speed Robotic Assembly Operations

The increase in positioning accuracy and repeatability allowed the integration of robots in assembly operations using guidance systems (structured applications) or video acquisition systems (unstructured applications). This paper proposes a...

Exploiting Three-Dimensional Gaze Tracking for Action Recognition During Bimanual Manipulation to Enhance Human–Robot Collaboration

Human–robot collaboration could be advanced by facilitating the intuitive, gaze-based control of robots, and enabling robots to recognize human actions, infer human intent, and plan actions that support human goals. Traditionally, gaze trac...

Computer Vision

This book presents research trends on computer vision, especially on application of robotics, and on advanced approachs for computer vision (such as omnidirectional vision). Among them, research on RFID technology integrating stereo vision ...

Vision-Based Novelty Detection Using Deep Features and Evolved Novelty Filters for Specific Robotic Exploration and Inspection Tasks

One of the essential abilities in animals is to detect novelties within their environment. From the computational point of view, novelty detection consists of finding data that are different in some aspect to the known data. In robotics, re...

Dynamic Elliptical Shaping Control for Swarm Robots

Solving the robotic swarm coverage problem for an elliptical area has various applications for exploring novel environments. Solutions for this problem should cover a specified ellipse and seamlessly adapt to changing numbers of robots. Pre...

A Dual-Segmentation Framework for the Automatic Detection and Size Estimation of Shrimp

In shrimp farming, determining the physical traits of shrimp is vital for assessing their health and growth. One of the critical traits is their size, as it serves as a key indicator of growth rates, biomass, and effective feed management. ...

A BigBiGAN-Based Loop Closure Detection Algorithm for Indoor Visual SLAM

Loop closure detection serves as the fulcrum of improving the accuracy and precision in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The majority of loop detection methods extract artificial features, which fall short of learning comprehen...

Upper Limb Movement Prediction Based on Segmented sEMG Signals

Motion intent recognition research is one of the key challenges in achieving human-robot collaboration in rehabilitation robots. In the traditional method, intention recognition is performed based on the complete sEMG, however, due to the m...

Design, framework and benchmark of safety monitors for black-box classifiers

Abstract The last decade has seen a surging opportunity for developing autonomous systems (e.g., fully autonomous driving, computer-guided robotic surgery, mobile robots for inspections and surveillance, and manufacturing robots) to relieve...