Robotics, Volume 10, Issue 4

Tracking patient progress through a course of robotic tele-rehabilitation requires constant position data logging and comparison, alongside periodic testing with no powered assistance. The test data must be compared with previous test attempts and an...

Omnidirectional planar robots are common these days due to their high mobility, for example in human–robot interactions. The motion of such mechanisms is based on specially designed wheels, which may vary when different terrains are considered....

Several industrial robotic applications that require high speed or high stiffness-to-inertia ratios use parallel kinematic robots. In the cases where the critical point of the application is the speed, the compliance of the main mechanical transmissi...

Recently, several deep-learning based navigation methods have been achieved because of a high quality dataset collected from high-quality simulated environments. However, the cost of creating high-quality simulated environments is high. In this paper...

The leap motion controller is a commercial low-cost marker-less optical sensor that can track the motion of a human hand by recording various parameters. Upper limb rehabilitation therapy is the treatment of people having upper limb impairments, whos...

The application of force in surgical settings is typically accomplished via physical tethers to the surgical tool. While physical tethers are common and critical, some internal surgical procedures may benefit from a tetherless operation of needles, p...

Robotics is an interdisciplinary field and there exist several well-known approaches to represent the dynamics model of a robot arm. The robot arm is an open kinematic chain of links connected through rotational and translational joints. In the gener...

This work is aimed to demonstrate a multi-objective joint trajectory generation algorithm for a 7 degree of freedom (DoF) robotic manipulator using swarm intelligence (SI)—product of exponentials (PoE) combination. Given a priori knowledge of t...

This paper describes the development and experimental validation of algorithms for a novel laser vision system (LVS), suitable for measuring the relative posture from both solid and mesh-like targets in underwater environments. The system was develop...

Autonomous robots are playing an important role to solve the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem in different domains. To generate flexible, intelligent, and interoperable solutions for SLAM, it is a must to model the complex knowled...