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81 Citations
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33 Pages

Current Designs of Robotic Arm Grippers: A Comprehensive Systematic Review

  • Jaime Hernandez,
  • Md Samiul Haque Sunny,
  • Javier Sanjuan,
  • Ivan Rulik,
  • Md Ishrak Islam Zarif,
  • Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed,
  • Helal Uddin Ahmed and
  • Mohammad H Rahman

2 January 2023

Recent technological advances enable gripper-equipped robots to perform many tasks traditionally associated with the human hand, allowing the use of grippers in a wide range of applications. Depending on the application, an ideal gripper design shoul...

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27 Citations
31,363 Views
23 Pages

Robotics: Five Senses plus One—An Overview

  • Rand N. Albustanji,
  • Shorouq Elmanaseer and
  • Ahmad A. A. Alkhatib

Robots can be equipped with a range of senses to allow them to perceive and interact with the world in a more natural and intuitive way. These senses can include vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Vision allows the robot to see and recognize o...

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66 Citations
26,879 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2024

Automation and robotics are the key players in modern agriculture. They offer potential solutions for challenges related to the growing global population, demographic shifts, and economic status. This review paper evaluates the challenges and opportu...

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37 Citations
20,171 Views
30 Pages

Literature Review on Recent Trends and Perspectives of Collaborative Robotics in Work 4.0

  • Carlo Weidemann,
  • Nils Mandischer,
  • Frederick van Kerkom,
  • Burkhard Corves,
  • Mathias Hüsing,
  • Thomas Kraus and
  • Cyryl Garus

This literature review presents a comprehensive analysis of the use and potential application scenarios of collaborative robots in the industrial working world, focusing on their impact on human work, safety, and health in the context of Industry 4.0...

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71 Citations
19,606 Views
33 Pages

COBOT Applications—Recent Advances and Challenges

  • Claudio Taesi,
  • Francesco Aggogeri and
  • Nicola Pellegrini

This study provides a structured literature review of the recent COllaborative roBOT (COBOT) applications in industrial and service contexts. Several papers and research studies were selected and analyzed, observing the collaborative robot interactio...

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73 Citations
19,389 Views
28 Pages

Indoor Positioning Systems of Mobile Robots: A Review

  • Jiahao Huang,
  • Steffen Junginger,
  • Hui Liu and
  • Kerstin Thurow

24 March 2023

Recently, with the in-depth development of Industry 4.0 worldwide, mobile robots have become a research hotspot. Indoor localization has become a key component in many fields and the basis for all actions of mobile robots. This paper screened 147 pap...

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14 Citations
14,545 Views
51 Pages

Quadruped Robots: Bridging Mechanical Design, Control, and Applications

  • Qimeng Li,
  • Franco Cicirelli,
  • Andrea Vinci,
  • Antonio Guerrieri,
  • Wen Qi and
  • Giancarlo Fortino

26 April 2025

Quadruped robots have emerged as a prominent field of research due to their exceptional mobility and adaptability in complex terrains. This paper presents an overview of quadruped robots, encompassing their design principles, control mechanisms, perc...

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26 Citations
13,306 Views
39 Pages

20 September 2023

This review article presents an in-depth examination of research and development in the fields of rehabilitation, assistive technologies, and humanoid robots. It focuses on parallel robots designed for human body joints with three degrees of freedom,...

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10 Citations
13,293 Views
24 Pages

A Survey on Open-Source Simulation Platforms for Multi-Copter UAV Swarms

  • Ziming Chen,
  • Jinjin Yan,
  • Bing Ma,
  • Kegong Shi,
  • Qiang Yu and
  • Weijie Yuan

Simulation platforms are critical and indispensable tools for application developments of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) because the UAVs are generally costly, have certain requirements for the test environment, and need professional licensed operat...

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80 Citations
13,160 Views
35 Pages

The most important research area in robotics is navigation algorithms. Robot path planning (RPP) is the process of choosing the best route for a mobile robot to take before it moves. Finding an ideal or nearly ideal path is referred to as “path...

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