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Robotics, Volume 14, Issue 1

January 2025 - 7 articles

Cover Story: This study presents an innovative deployable docking system (DDS) specifically designed for subsurface, omnidirectional docking and the recovery of small autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) from a “vessel of opportunity”. Unlike conventional systems, the DDS operates without transmitting components, allowing for silent functionality in acoustically sensitive environments. It utilizes a novel multi-sensor fusion approach that integrates an onboard forward-looking sonar with cameras to facilitate precise docking guidance. The developed docking solution represents a significant advancement towards more versatile and cost-efficient AUV operations. By removing the need for permanent infrastructure and expensive acoustic positioning systems while providing reliable performance, the DDS unlocks new possibilities for the deployment of AUVs in both scientific and industrial applications. View this paper
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Articles (7)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,296 Views
22 Pages

A Sliding Mode Approach to Vector Field Path Following for a Fixed-Wing UAV

  • Luca Pugi,
  • Lorenzo Franchi,
  • Samuele Favilli and
  • Giuseppe Mattei

9 January 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has recently experienced increasing development, leading to the creation of a wide variety of autonomous solutions. In this paper, a guidance strategy for straight and orbital paths following fixed-wing small...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,490 Views
23 Pages

8 January 2025

This manuscript proposes a method for analyzing the stability of the behavior of a cyber-physical system (CPS) under conditions of potential destructive impact, considering the tasks it performs, which does not require labeled sets of abnormal data....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,279 Views
26 Pages

Navigating ALICE: Advancements in Deployable Docking and Precision Detection for AUV Operations

  • Yevgeni Gutnik,
  • Nir Zagdanski,
  • Sharon Farber,
  • Tali Treibitz and
  • Morel Groper

31 December 2024

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) operate independently using onboard batteries and data storage, necessitating periodic recovery for battery recharging and data transfer. Traditional surface-based launch and recovery (L&R) operations pose si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,822 Views
15 Pages

30 December 2024

The demand for flexible automation in manufacturing has increased, incorporating vision-guided systems for object grasping. However, a key challenge is in-hand error, where discrepancies between the actual and estimated positions of an object in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,734 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2024

Trajectory planning is a key task in unmanned aerial vehicle navigation systems. Although trajectory planning in the presence of obstacles is a well-understood problem, unknown and dynamic environments still present significant challenges. In this pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,916 Views
15 Pages

Determining the Proper Force Parameters for Robotized Pipetting Devices Used in Automated Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

  • Melania-Olivia Sandu,
  • Valentin Ciupe,
  • Corina-Mihaela Gruescu,
  • Robert Kristof,
  • Carmen Sticlaru and
  • Elida-Gabriela Tulcan

28 December 2024

This study aims to provide a set of experimentally determined forces needed for gripping operations related to a robotically manipulated microliter manual pipette. The experiments are conducted within the scope of automated sample processing for poly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,502 Views
18 Pages

27 December 2024

This article introduces a novel modification of a Delta-type parallel robot. The robot has five degrees of freedom and provides its end-effector with a 3T2R motion pattern (three translational and two rotational degrees of freedom). The fifth degree...

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