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Robotics, Volume 14, Issue 3

March 2025 - 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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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

Robotics2025, 14(3), 24;https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics14030024

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...

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

Marius Boshoff,
Bernd Kuhlenkötter and
Paul Koslowski

Robotics2025, 14(3), 23;https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics14030023

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...

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

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

Robotics2025, 14(3), 22;https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics14030022

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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