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Robotics, Volume 6, Issue 4

December 2017 - 20 articles

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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,641 Views
22 Pages

18 December 2017

With the rising popularity of robotics in our modern world there is an increase in the number of engineering programs that offer the basic Introduction to Robotics course. This common introductory robotics course generally covers the fundamental theo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
13,143 Views
18 Pages

Design of a Novel Leg-Wheel Hexapod Walking Robot

  • Franco Tedeschi and
  • Giuseppe Carbone

14 December 2017

Hexapod walking robots have been widely addressed in the literature with a very large number of design and engineering solutions. However, specific design approaches and solutions are needed to cope with specific novel applications. This paper aims t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
178 Citations
19,665 Views
21 Pages

7 December 2017

In the last decades, increasing energy prices and growing environmental awareness have driven engineers and scientists to find new solutions for reducing energy consumption in manufacturing. Although many processes of a high energy consumption (e.g.,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,656 Views
23 Pages

3 December 2017

Outdoor environments pose multiple challenges for the visual navigation of robots, like changing illumination conditions, seasonal changes, dynamic environments and non-planar terrain. Illumination changes are mostly caused by the movement of the Sun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,468 Views
12 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network based Estimation of Gel-like Food Texture by a Robotic Sensing System

  • Akihide Shibata,
  • Akira Ikegami,
  • Makoto Nakauma and
  • Mitsuru Higashimori

1 December 2017

This paper presents a robotic sensing system that evaluates the texture of gel-like food, in which not only mechanical characteristics, but also geometrical characteristics of the texture are objectively and quantitatively evaluated. When a human che...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
12,783 Views
13 Pages

Advances in the Inspection of Unpiggable Pipelines

  • George H. Mills,
  • Andrew E. Jackson and
  • Robert C. Richardson

29 November 2017

The field of in-pipe robotics covers a vast and varied number of approaches to the inspection of pipelines with robots specialising in pipes ranging anywhere from 10 mm to 1200 mm in diameter. Many of these developed systems focus on overcoming in-pi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,664 Views
17 Pages

27 November 2017

This paper proposes an adaptive Kalman filter (AKF) to improve the performance of a vision-based human machine interface (HMI) applied to a video game. The HMI identifies head gestures and decodes them into corresponding commands. Face detection and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
11,130 Views
41 Pages

26 November 2017

Autonomous mobile robots have recently become a popular solution for automating cleaning tasks. In one application, the robot cleans a floor space by traversing and covering it completely. While fulfilling its task, such a robot may create a map of i...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,331 Views
10 Pages

Propulsion-Based Soft Robotic Actuation

  • Matthew Chin Heng Chua and
  • Raye Chen Hua Yeow

24 November 2017

The use of air propulsion to drive limb motion in soft robotics has been a largely untapped field even though the technology has been around since the 1700s. Air propulsion can generate greater degrees of motion in limb actuators compared to widely-e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,732 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2017

This work deals with the development of a node-based monocular visual methodology for autonomous vehicle navigation which has the goal of exploring unknown regions of the sea bottom with a posterior safe revisiting of them. The work accentuates chara...

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Robotics - ISSN 2218-6581