Robotics, Volume 13, Issue 10

Oscillating fins are devices designed to produce thrust through periodic undulating movements. However, these structures lack flexibility and often provide thrust in only one fixed direction. Observation and biological references suggest that the dor...

Robot acceptance is rapidly increasing in many different industrial applications. The advancement of production systems and machines requires addressing the productivity complexity and flexibility of current manufacturing processes in quasi-real time...

A new approach is presented to study the kinematic properties of stationary robots with a closed structure. It combines the application of conventional methods from kinematics with geometric parameters represented in a barycentric coordinate system....

A magnetic-wheeled robot is a type of robot that inspects large steel structures instead of humans, and it can run on a three-dimensional path by using wheels with built-in permanent magnets. For the robots to work safely, their magnetic wheels requi...

The kinetostatic compliance method (KCM) models protein molecules as nanomechanisms consisting of numerous rigid peptide plane linkages. These linkages articulate with respect to each other through changes in the molecule dihedral angles, resulting i...

This paper presents a structural–parametric synthesis of the four-link and Stephenson I, Stephenson II, and Stephenson III six-link path-generating mechanisms. The four-link path-generating mechanism is formed by connecting the output point and...

This work concerns the autonomous navigation of non-holonomic ground mobile robots in a GPS-denied environment. The objective was to locate, in a global frame, without GPS, anonymous ground mobile robots starting from two consecutive aerial images ca...

Delivering large horizontal controlled forces for long periods with aerial manipulators is not an easy task to accomplish; several factors including disturbances, reaction forces from the on-board arm or actuator’s limitations might diminish th...

Creating an adult-sized humanoid robot with stable walking capabilities is a major challenge in robotics. While many renowned research groups focus on robots for perilous work environments and precision tasks, our approach simplifies balance control,...

Trajectory interception is a critical synchronization element in the transportation and manufacturing sectors using robotic platforms. This is usually performed by matching the position and velocity of a target object with the position and velocity o...

This study explores the role of social identity in human–robot interactions, focusing on a scenario where a humanoid robot functions as a bartender with either a positive or negative personality. Conducted with 28 participants, the experiment u...

Force-feedback devices enhance task performance in most robot teleoperations. However, their increased size with additional degrees of freedom can limit the robot’s applicability. To address this, an interface that visually presents force feedb...

Bioinspired walking hexapod robots are a relatively young branch of robotics. Despite the high degree of flexibility and adaptability derived from their redundant design, open-source implementations do not fully utilize this potential. This paper pro...

This paper presents an Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimisation (EPSO) algorithm to improve multi-robot path planning by integrating a new path planning scheme with a cubic Bezier curve trajectory smoothing algorithm. Traditional PSO algorithms often res...