2026 October - 27 articles
Reverse parking of a vehicle with a trailer is a challenging task to complete for human drivers due to its articulated structure, unstable reverse-motion behaviors, and unintuitive steering responses. This paper proposes a compact, trailer-centric no...
Automated slide stainers usually protect incubation timing by running one technique at a time or processing slides in fixed batches, which leaves the robotic arm idle while samples incubate. This paper presents the dynamic scheduler of a slide-staini...
Precision agriculture requires robotic platforms capable of covering large cultivation areas while providing accurate positioning for localized crop monitoring and management operations. Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) offer large workspaces and...
Quadruped robots are increasingly used for industrial inspection because they can traverse stairs, clutter, and uneven terrain built for people. This paper presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), following the Preferred Reporting Items for Sys...
Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models aim to unify perception, language grounding, and robot control, yet recent progress in robotic manipulation remains difficult to compare because systems differ widely in observation modalities, action interfaces, e...
This paper presents a novel mechanical design framework for robotic manipulators used in precision agriculture operations, specifically vineyard spraying. Objective functions were formulated from the kinematic and dynamic models to assess kinematic d...
Task failure alone cannot distinguish limited robot execution from incorrect target selection. We evaluate released SmolVLA and
With the advancement of exoskeleton technology, the need for accurate adaptation to users’ movements for effective human–exoskeleton interaction is paramount. Therefore, predicting lower-limb joint trajectories, including hip, knee and an...
Robotic grasping based on monocular vision remains challenging due to perception uncertainty, pixel-to-world mapping errors, and a tight per-frame budget. This paper presents a lightweight vision-based multi-object robotic grasping framework that int...
The perception–affordance–action loop constitutes a fundamental framework for enabling advanced capabilities in semi-autonomous and autonomous robots. By allowing for robots to perceive their environment, interpret actionable possibilitie...
Bin picking in industrial environments remains challenging due to the high cost of industrial 3D sensors and the typical requirement of structured-light projectors. We present Pickalo, a modular pipeline designed to reduce the setup complexity of ind...
Living organisms exhibit remarkable adaptability through distributed actuation and continuous deformation, thereby inspiring new paradigms in soft robotics. This paper presents a family of bioinspired heterogeneous soft modular robotic cubes designed...
Greeting in social robotics is typically studied as a first-encounter event performed by a discrete, often humanoid agent. This paper reframes greeting as adaptive spatial acknowledgment: a non-humanoid, environment-scale operation conveying presence...
The design of a vision-based guidance robust controller for road following on a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is presented in this study. The proposed scheme is composed of a control module including a robust hierarchical flight controller...
This work presents the design, modeling, and experimental evaluation of a biomimetic robotic fish actuated by shape memory alloy (SMA) wires integrated with a bistable polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) caudal mechanism. Inspired by the general...
Maintaining upright stability in tandem-wheel robotic systems is particularly challenging during stationary and low-speed operation, where steering-induced stabilization and gyroscopic effects become limited. Also, alternative mechanisms such as reac...
Autonomous forklifts in dynamic industrial facilities must simultaneously solve precise pallet perception and safe, accountable human–robot interaction, challenges that have rarely been tackled together on real edge hardware. To address this, w...
The paper presents the design, development, and simulation of an intelligent control system for the pitch-decoupled vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In contrast to conventional tilt-rotor VTOL UAVs, the mechanical st...
This paper presents ROTOTILLER (Rolling Optimization of Tasks and Online Trajectories Integrating Local Lookahead Extended Routing), an extension of the extended-SPADES framework for integrated task allocation and fleet navigation in dynamic logistic...
Leader–follower robots employ teleoperation, enabling flexible and safe operation. A robotic surgical system, as a typical leader–follower system, enables remote manipulation in minimally invasive surgery. However, inappropriate operator...
Digital solenoid valves (DSVs) offer a lightweight and cost-effective alternative to proportional pressure control valves (PPCVs) in pneumatic robotic systems. Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is commonly employed to manage DSVs, emulating proportional b...
Autonomous mobile robots need reliable path planning and local execution. Plenty of tools exist to evaluate either global planners or controllers. The open-source automated frameworks built for Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) do not measure computat...
We present a novel mapping approach for lower-limb exoskeletons that generates real-time, robot-centric bird’s-eye view (BEV) occupancy maps to support safe and efficient local navigation. This work focuses on a self-balancing wearable humanoid...
Continuum robot arms offer compliance and confined-space dexterity that rigid-link manipulators cannot match, but each published design is built around a fixed structural configuration serving a single motion type, so that finger-like, planar, and sp...
The “Maestro Arm,” presented in this paper, is a modular wearable robotic arm with a five-fingered hand and wrist, elbow, and shoulder joints. The arm attaches to a waist belt to serve as a wearable third arm and can detach from its shoul...
Reciprocal waiting can stop decentralized robots at symmetric intersections even when local commands maintain separation. RingBreak uses a local conflict core estimate, queueing, clockwise orbiting, release point recovery, and an empirical velocity p...
Retrieving target objects in severe clutter requires multi-step reasoning to establish valid obstacle removal sequences. While recent Vision–Language Models (VLMs) have advanced instruction-driven clutter grasping, existing paradigms lack expli...
