Robotics, Volume 12, Issue 4

We present a novel framework, multi-view unified reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation (MURM), which efficiently utilizes multiple camera views to train a goal-conditioned policy for a robot to perform complex tasks. The MURM framework cons...

When humans and robots work together, ensuring safe cooperation must be a priority. This research aims to develop a novel real-time planning algorithm that can handle unpredictable human movements by both slowing down task execution and modifying the...

In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the development and research of tethered aerial systems, thus reflecting a growing interest in their diverse applications. Long-term missions involving aerial vehicles present significant challeng...

In this paper, the problem of making a safe compliant contact between a human and an assistive robot is considered. Users with disabilities have a need to utilize their assistive robots for physical human–robot interaction (PHRI) during certain...

With the improvement of autonomous robot navigation technologies, mobile robots can now be deployed in uncertain, real-world environments. An aspect of autonomous robot navigation in such scenarios is the capability to navigate to a real-time determi...

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models fail catastrophically on questions related to the reading of text-carrying images. However, TextVQA aims to answer questions by understanding the scene texts in an image–question context, such as the brand...

For visually impaired people, orientation and mobility are challenging and require a great deal of concentration. Especially unfamiliar routes are difficult to follow. This paper presents a navigation algorithm based on a geographic information syste...

This paper addresses the problem of relative position-based formation planning for a leader–follower multi-robot setup, where the robots adjust the formation parameters, such as size and three-dimensional orientation, to avoid collisions and pr...

Three decades ago, telepresence was presented as an idea in the context of remote work and manipulation. Since then, it has evolved into a field combining different technologies and allowing users to have more or less realistic perceptions of immersi...

As we look towards the future of healthcare, integrating Care Robots (CRs) into health systems is a practical approach to address challenges such as an ageing population and caregiver shortages. However, ethical discussions about the impact of CRs on...