Robotics, Volume 14, Issue 7

This paper presents a mobile robotic system designed for autonomous navigation and forest and tree trait estimation, with a focus on the location of individual trees and the diameter of the trunks. The system integrates light detection and ranging da...

This study aims to explore the tracking control challenge in a swarm of multiple nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots (NWMRs) by utilizing a distributed leader–follower strategy grounded in the cascade system theory. Firstly, the kinematic contro...

This study presents the design, fabrication, and experimental validation of a two-finger robotic gripper featuring a 135° V-shaped fingertip profile tailored for lightweight waste collection in laboratory-scale environmental robotics. The gripper...

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful framework for solving complex sequential decision-making problems, particularly in robotic control. However, its practical deployment is often hindered by the substantial amount of experience required f...

This paper contributes a two-step approach to monitor clusters of thermal targets on the ground using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) in a distributed manner. The approach is tailored to networks of UAVs that establ...