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Robotics, Volume 14, Issue 3

2025 March - 13 articles

Cover Story: The optimal viewpoint for monitoring robotic production processes is crucial for maintenance, inspection, and error handling, particularly in large-scale production facilities, as it maximizes visual information. In the following paper, we present a method for dynamic camera planning using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), enabling collision-free operation and measurable, high-perspective coverage for a user-defined Region of Interest (ROI). Optimal viewpoints are therefore searched with a greedy search algorithm and a decision on the optimal viewpoint is derived. The method is implemented within a simulation framework in Unity and evaluated in a robotic palletizing application. Our results show that the use of a UAV as a dynamic camera can achieve up to twice the perspective coverage during continuous flight compared to the current capabilities of static cameras. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,574 Views
19 Pages

17 March 2025

This study investigated the role of haptic feedback in precision peg insertion tasks conducted via teleoperation under varying visual resolution and communication latency conditions. Experiment 1 examined the combined effects of haptic feedback and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,668 Views
18 Pages

The Art of Replication: Lifelike Avatars with Personalized Conversational Style

  • Michele Nasser,
  • Giuseppe Fulvio Gaglio,
  • Valeria Seidita and
  • Antonio Chella

13 March 2025

This study presents an approach for developing digital avatars replicating individuals’ physical characteristics and communicative style, contributing to research on virtual interactions in the metaverse. The proposed method integrates large la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,043 Views
34 Pages

Enhanced Hybrid Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm for Three-Dimensional Path Planning Applied to Robotic Systems

  • Ilias Chouridis,
  • Gabriel Mansour,
  • Vasileios Papageorgiou,
  • Michel Theodor Mansour and
  • Apostolos Tsagaris

10 March 2025

Path planning is a vital challenge in robot navigation. In the real world, robots operate in 3D environments with various obstacles and restrictions. An improved artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA) is proposed to solve 3D path planning problems in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,163 Views
15 Pages

10 March 2025

The Euler–Lagrange and Newton–Euler methods are typically used to derive equations of motion for serial-link manipulators. We previously proposed a partial Lagrangian method, which is similar to the Lagrangian method, for handling the equ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,247 Views
19 Pages

Chronic wounds require accurate and objective assessment to monitor healing progress and optimize treatment. Traditional contact-based methods for wound measurement are often uncomfortable for patients, impractical for clinicians, and prone to inaccu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,662 Views
70 Pages

Parallel-kinematic machines or parallel robots have only been established in a few applications where their advantage over serial kinematics due to their high payload capacity, stiffness, or dynamics with their limited workspace-to-installation-space...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,919 Views
22 Pages

28 February 2025

While the concept of humanoid robots stems from the goal of replicating human movement, these systems have yet to match the elegance and efficiency of human locomotion. A key reason for this gap is that current humanoid robots differ from humans in t...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,645 Views
41 Pages

28 February 2025

As collaborative robots (cobots) increasingly share workspaces with humans, ensuring safe physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) has become paramount. This systematic review addresses safety assessment in pHRI, focussing on the industrial fiel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,963 Views
18 Pages

27 February 2025

In the post-COVID era, international business and tourism are quickly recovering from the global lockdown, with people and products traveling faster at higher frequency. This boosts the economy while facilitating the spread of pathogens, causing wave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,162 Views
31 Pages

26 February 2025

We describe a quantum teleportation protocol for exchanging data between a mobile robot and its control station. Because of the high cost of quantum network systems, we use MATLAB software to simulate the teleportation of data. Our simulation models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,430 Views
28 Pages

Agentic Workflows for Improving Large Language Model Reasoning in Robotic Object-Centered Planning

  • Jesus Moncada-Ramirez,
  • Jose-Luis Matez-Bandera,
  • Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez and
  • Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento

24 February 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) provide cognitive capabilities that enable robots to interpret and reason about their workspace, especially when paired with semantically rich representations like semantic maps. However, these models are prone to generat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,582 Views
32 Pages

Dynamic Camera Planning for Robot-Integrated Manufacturing Processes Using a UAV

  • Marius Boshoff,
  • Bernd Kuhlenkötter and
  • Paul Koslowski

21 February 2025

The optimal viewpoint for monitoring robotic production processes is crucial for maintenance, inspection, and error handling, especially in large-scale production facilities, as it maximizes visual information. This paper presents a method for dynami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,485 Views
14 Pages

System Layout and Grasp Efficiency Optimization for a Multirobot Waste Sorting System

  • Bart Engelen,
  • Sander Teck,
  • Jef R. Peeters and
  • Karel Kellens

21 February 2025

The transition towards a circular economy, as outlined in the European Union’s Green Deal, requires the development of industries dedicated to recycling and material recovery. Within this context, the recycling of plastic and packaging waste is...

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Robotics - ISSN 2218-6581