2026 February - 18 articles
Accurate apple detection and precise three-dimensional (3D) localisation are essential for autonomous robotic harvesting in orchard environments, where occlusion, illumination variation, depth noise, and the similar colour appearance of fruits and su...
Background: Flexible surgical instruments for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) face a critical limitation: the inability to rotate the distal head while the instrument is in a bent configuration, which restricts the maneuverability i...
AI-driven assistance can help the user perform complex teleoperated tasks, introduce autonomous patterns, or adapt the workbench to objects of interest. On the other hand, the level of assistance should be responsive to the user’s response and...
Segmenting individual timber logs in robotic grasping scenarios poses significant challenges due to cluttered arrangements, overlapping geometries, and visually uniform textures, requiring instance segmentation models that balance accuracy and comput...
Biological muscles generate tension from the combined contribution of the passive elastic recoil and the actively controlled contractile mechanisms. Understanding and replicating these passive and active tensions is necessary and beneficial for desig...
Fly-casting is a throwing technique in which a flexible rod is used to cast a lightweight line. In skilled fly-casting, a phenomenon known as the rebound phenomenon is observed, where the residual vibration of the rod tip is suppressed by the re-acce...
As the global population ages, there is a growing need for assistive technologies to help older adults maintain their independence. This work presents a cost-effective autonomous socially assistive robot designed for object retrieval and delivery, en...
To address the issue that the performance-index function encompassing both dynamic and control processes in traditional adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) cannot be optimized as time approaches infinity, this paper proposes an optimal tracking contro...
Reliable detection of contact states, such as the “mating” of connectors, is crucial for high-quality teleoperated assembly. Conventional systems relying solely on visual and continuous force feedback often fail to convey these discrete h...
Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) can restore motor function; however, achieving precise multi-joint control remains challenging due to nonlinear muscle dynamics and fatigue. Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a promising solution, but practica...
Robotic ultrasound (US) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance the accuracy, consistency, and accessibility of US examinations. Although many studies have proposed various technologies toward full automation, patient acceptance of the robotic...
Cable-driven wrench applicators (CDWAs) are parallel robotic systems that apply controlled wrenches to the robot end-effector through cable actuation. The presented study introduces a framework for the performance evaluation of CDWAs based on dedicat...
Localization and mapping remain critical challenges for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) operating in unstructured natural environments, such as forests and agricultural fields. While Visual SLAM (VSLAM) and Visual–Inertial SLAM (VI-SLAM) have m...
An extended operational space kinematics and dynamics formulation is presented for the control of redundant non-serial compound robotic manipulators. A broad spectrum of high-load-capacity non-serial manipulators used in earth moving, material handli...
This paper presents the development and experimental evaluation of the Athena parallel robot, a novel system designed for robot-assisted pancreatic surgery. The development of the experimental model based on the kinematic scheme, including the comman...
This paper presents an optimization framework for Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) for a heterogeneous robot fleet operating in dynamic, failure-prone environments. In contrast to traditional MRTA approaches that handle only the initial allocation,...
Panoptic maps enable robots to reason about both geometry and semantics. However, open-vocabulary models repeatedly produce closely related labels that split panoptic entities and degrade volumetric consistency. The proposed UPPM advances open-world...
Despite decades of research, autonomous forklifts remain deployed at a small scale (2–50 vehicles), while industrial warehouses require coordinating hundreds of vehicles in environments shared with human workers. This systematic review analyzes...
