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Robotics, Volume 13, Issue 6

June 2024 - 13 articles

Cover Story: This study by the Polytechnic of Turin presents a comprehensive design of a spherical rover for space applications. The spherical shape allows the protection of internal components and rollover resistance, ideal for planetary exploration. The work includes design methods, component dimensioning, electronic integration, control strategy and energy balance of the pendulum–CMG (Control Moment Gyroscope) system. Power transmission and control systems are supported by CMG-focused studies and analytical models. Multibody simulations show the 0.5 m diameter robot tracking straight paths and climbing up to 0.11 m steps. The design improves on single-pendulum versions by achieving speeds of up to 2.5 m/s, climbing 15° inclines and overcoming steps 10 times higher. An energy analysis evaluates autonomy for mission profiles. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,056 Views
22 Pages

Physically Motivated Model of a Painting Brush for Robotic Painting and Calligraphy

  • Artur Karimov,
  • Maksim Strelnikov,
  • Sergei Mazin,
  • Dmitriy Goryunov,
  • Sergey Leonov and
  • Denis Butusov

Robot artistic painting and robot calligraphy do require brush models for brushstroke simulation and painting robot control. One of the main features of the brush is its compliance, which describes the relationship between the brush footprint shape a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,183 Views
19 Pages

Three-Degree-of-Freedom Cable-Driven Parallel Manipulator with Self-Sensing Nitinol Actuators

  • Francesco Durante,
  • Terenziano Raparelli and
  • Pierluigi Beomonte Zobel

This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel 3-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) parallel manipulator equipped with self-sensing Ni-Ti (Nitinol) actuators. The manipulator’s architecture and mechanical design are elucidated, emphasizing the i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4,566 Views
17 Pages

Robotic Animal Use among Older Adults Enrolled in Palliative or Hospice Care: A Scoping Review and Framework for Future Research

  • Allyson Miles,
  • Noelle L. Fields,
  • Michael Bennett,
  • Ling Xu,
  • Karen Magruder,
  • Mary Kris Stringfellow,
  • Benjamin J. Sesay and
  • Swasati Handique

As the population of older adults increases, there is an anticipated rise in the utilization of hospice and palliative care. Many significant advancements in technology have been used to address the unique needs of this demographic; however, an unexp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,843 Views
22 Pages

Because they are safe and easy to use, collaborative robots are revolutionizing many sectors, including industry, medicine, and agriculture. Controlling their dynamics, movements, and postures are key points in this evolution. Inverse kinematics is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,665 Views
19 Pages

Pose Estimation of a Container with Contact Sensing Based on Discrete State Discrimination

  • Daisuke Kato,
  • Yuichi Kobayashi,
  • Daiki Takamori,
  • Noritsugu Miyazawa,
  • Kosuke Hara and
  • Dotaro Usui

In cases where vision is not sufficiently reliable for robots to recognize an object, tactile sensing can be a promising alternative for estimating the object’s pose. In this paper, we consider the task of a robot estimating the pose of a conta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,520 Views
26 Pages

Master–slave teleoperation systems with haptic feedback enable human operators to interact with objects or perform tasks in remote environments. This paper presents a sliding-mode control scheme tailored for bilateral teleoperation systems oper...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,497 Views
21 Pages

Industry 4.0 has become one of the most dominant research areas in industrial science today. Many industrial machinery units do not have modern standards that allow for the use of image analysis techniques in their commissioning. Intelligent material...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,668 Views
24 Pages

Design of a Spherical Rover Driven by Pendulum and Control Moment Gyroscope for Planetary Exploration

  • Matteo Melchiorre,
  • Tommaso Colamartino,
  • Martina Ferrauto,
  • Mario Troise,
  • Laura Salamina and
  • Stefano Mauro

The spherical shape is an interesting approach to develop exploration robots, or rovers, thanks to its capability of ensuring omnidirectional motion and of being basically unsensitive to possible rollovers. This works intends to propose a novel detai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,373 Views
19 Pages

Recent advancements in quadrupedal robotics have explored the motor potential of these machines beyond simple walking, enabling highly dynamic skills such as jumping, backflips, and even bipedal locomotion. While reinforcement learning has demonstrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,948 Views
21 Pages

Multiple-Object Grasping Using a Multiple-Suction-Cup Vacuum Gripper in Cluttered Scenes

  • Ping Jiang,
  • Junji Oaki,
  • Yoshiyuki Ishihara and
  • Junichiro Ooga

Multiple-suction-cup grasping can improve the efficiency of bin picking in cluttered scenes. In this paper, we propose a grasp planner for a vacuum gripper to use multiple suction cups to simultaneously grasp multiple objects or an object with a larg...

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