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31 Citations
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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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74 Citations
27,796 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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40 Citations
20,621 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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78 Citations
20,439 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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76 Citations
19,977 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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16 Citations
16,595 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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11 Citations
13,908 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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29 Citations
13,856 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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88 Citations
13,851 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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43 Citations
13,744 Views
27 Pages

Industrial Robots in Mechanical Machining: Perspectives and Limitations

  • Mantas Makulavičius,
  • Sigitas Petkevičius,
  • Justė Rožėnė,
  • Andrius Dzedzickis and
  • Vytautas Bučinskas

24 November 2023

Recently, the need to produce from soft materials or components in extra-large sizes has appeared, requiring special solutions that are affordable using industrial robots. Industrial robots are suitable for such tasks due to their flexibility, accura...

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30 Citations
13,655 Views
29 Pages

A Survey of Machine Learning Approaches for Mobile Robot Control

  • Monika Rybczak,
  • Natalia Popowniak and
  • Agnieszka Lazarowska

9 January 2024

Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence that has been developing at a dynamic pace in recent years. ML is also linked with Big Data, which are huge datasets that need special tools and approaches to process them. ML algorithms ma...

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10 Citations
13,409 Views
22 Pages

Low-Cost Cable-Driven Robot Arm with Low-Inertia Movement and Long-Term Cable Durability

  • Van Pho Nguyen,
  • Wai Tuck Chow,
  • Sunil Bohra Dhyan,
  • Bohan Zhang,
  • Boon Siew Han and
  • Hong Yee Alvin Wong

27 August 2024

Our study presents a novel design for a cable-driven robotic arm, emphasizing low cost, low inertia movement, and long-term cable durability. The robotic arm shares similar specifications with the UR5 robotic arm, featuring a total of six degrees of...

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33 Citations
12,979 Views
28 Pages

Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles—A Systematic Review

  • Miguel Nakajima Marques,
  • Sandro Augusto Magalhães,
  • Filipe Neves Dos Santos and
  • Hélio Sousa Mendonça

14 August 2023

In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the development and research of tethered aerial systems, thus reflecting a growing interest in their diverse applications. Long-term missions involving aerial vehicles present significant challeng...

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12 Citations
12,809 Views
26 Pages

Agricultural Robotics: A Technical Review Addressing Challenges in Sustainable Crop Production

  • Maria Spagnuolo,
  • Giuseppe Todde,
  • Maria Caria,
  • Nicola Furnitto,
  • Giampaolo Schillaci and
  • Sabina Failla

23 January 2025

The adoption of agricultural robots is revolutionizing the agricultural sector, offering innovative solutions to optimize production and reduce environmental impact. This review examines the main functions and applications of agricultural robots, wit...

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34 Citations
11,925 Views
23 Pages

Recent Advances and Perspectives in Deep Learning Techniques for 3D Point Cloud Data Processing

  • Zifeng Ding,
  • Yuxuan Sun,
  • Sijin Xu,
  • Yan Pan,
  • Yanhong Peng and
  • Zebing Mao

11 July 2023

In recent years, deep learning techniques for processing 3D point cloud data have seen significant advancements, given their unique ability to extract relevant features and handle unstructured data. These techniques find wide-ranging applications in...

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13 Citations
11,242 Views
39 Pages

19 December 2023

Predicting the trajectory of other road users, especially vulnerable road users (VRUs), is an important aspect of safety and planning efficiency for autonomous vehicles. With recent advances in Deep-Learning-based approaches in this field, physics- a...

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6 Citations
10,433 Views
27 Pages

With the continuous increase in the global aging population, stroke has become one of the major diseases affecting the health of the elderly, and the upper limb motor dysfunction it causes often requires long-term rehabilitation. To improve rehabilit...

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12 Citations
10,219 Views
17 Pages

Soft Hand Exoskeletons for Rehabilitation: Approaches to Design, Manufacturing Methods, and Future Prospects

  • Alexander Saldarriaga,
  • Elkin Iván Gutierrez-Velasquez and
  • Henry A. Colorado

15 March 2024

Stroke, the third leading cause of global disability, poses significant challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. Addressing the restoration of impaired hand functions is crucial, especially amid healthcare workforce shortages. While robotic-assist...

  • Systematic Review
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14 Citations
10,045 Views
29 Pages

Keyframe Selection for Visual Localization and Mapping Tasks: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Nigel Joseph Bandeira Dias,
  • Gustavo Teodoro Laureano and
  • Ronaldo Martins Da Costa

Visual localization and mapping algorithms attempt to estimate, from images, geometrical models that explain ego motion and the positions of objects in a real scene. The success of these tasks depends directly on the quality and availability of visua...

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7 Citations
9,931 Views
26 Pages

NOHAS: A Novel Orthotic Hand Actuated by Servo Motors and Mobile App for Stroke Rehabilitation

  • Ebenezer Raj Selvaraj Mercyshalinie,
  • Akash Ghadge,
  • Nneka Ifejika and
  • Yonas Tadesse

8 December 2023

The rehabilitation process after the onset of a stroke primarily deals with assisting in regaining mobility, communication skills, swallowing function, and activities of daily living (ADLs). This entirely depends on the specific regions of the brain...

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30 Citations
9,307 Views
16 Pages

Prototyping and validating hardware–software components, sub-systems and systems within the intelligent transportation system-of-systems framework requires a modular yet flexible and open-access ecosystem. This work presents our attempt to deve...

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7 Citations
9,199 Views
13 Pages

Investigation of the Effectiveness of the Robotic ReStore Soft Exoskeleton in the Development of Early Mobilization, Walking, and Coordination of Stroke Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial

  • Szilvia Kóra,
  • Adrienn Bíró,
  • Nándor Prontvai,
  • Mónika Androsics,
  • István Drotár,
  • Péter Prukner,
  • Tamás Haidegger,
  • Klaudia Széphelyi and
  • József Tollár

Medical robotics nowadays can prevent, treat, or alleviate numerous severe conditions, including the dire consequences of stroke. Our objective was to determine the effect of employing a robotic soft exoskeleton in therapy on the development of the e...

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23 Citations
9,161 Views
19 Pages

14 April 2024

Digital twins of industrial and collaborative robots are widely used to evaluate and predict the behavior of manipulators under different control strategies. However, these digital twins often employ simplified mathematical models that do not fully d...

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6 Citations
9,049 Views
28 Pages

Agentic Workflows for Improving Large Language Model Reasoning in Robotic Object-Centered Planning

  • Jesus Moncada-Ramirez,
  • Jose-Luis Matez-Bandera,
  • Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez and
  • Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento

24 February 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) provide cognitive capabilities that enable robots to interpret and reason about their workspace, especially when paired with semantically rich representations like semantic maps. However, these models are prone to generat...

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26 Citations
9,012 Views
60 Pages

Sensing and Artificial Perception for Robots in Precision Forestry: A Survey

  • João Filipe Ferreira,
  • David Portugal,
  • Maria Eduarda Andrada,
  • Pedro Machado,
  • Rui P. Rocha and
  • Paulo Peixoto

5 October 2023

Artificial perception for robots operating in outdoor natural environments, including forest scenarios, has been the object of a substantial amount of research for decades. Regardless, this has proven to be one of the most difficult research areas in...

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3 Citations
8,542 Views
14 Pages

Surgical Staplers in Laparoscopic Colectomy: A New Innovative Flexible Design Perspective

  • Dhruva Khanzode,
  • Ranjan Jha,
  • Alexandra Thomieres,
  • Emilie Duchalais and
  • Damien Chablat

21 November 2023

This article describes the development of a flexible surgical stapler mechanism, which serves as a fundamental tool for laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery, addressing the challenges posed by difficult types of accessibility using conventional instrum...

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11 Citations
8,404 Views
20 Pages

1 August 2023

Three decades ago, telepresence was presented as an idea in the context of remote work and manipulation. Since then, it has evolved into a field combining different technologies and allowing users to have more or less realistic perceptions of immersi...

  • Systematic Review
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7 Citations
8,352 Views
41 Pages

28 February 2025

As collaborative robots (cobots) increasingly share workspaces with humans, ensuring safe physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) has become paramount. This systematic review addresses safety assessment in pHRI, focussing on the industrial fiel...

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21 Citations
8,189 Views
25 Pages

Beyond the Metal Flesh: Understanding the Intersection between Bio- and AI Ethics for Robotics in Healthcare

  • Auxane Boch,
  • Seamus Ryan,
  • Alexander Kriebitz,
  • Lameck Mbangula Amugongo and
  • Christoph Lütge

1 August 2023

As we look towards the future of healthcare, integrating Care Robots (CRs) into health systems is a practical approach to address challenges such as an ageing population and caregiver shortages. However, ethical discussions about the impact of CRs on...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,125 Views
15 Pages

Safe Reinforcement Learning for Arm Manipulation with Constrained Markov Decision Process

  • Patrick Adjei,
  • Norman Tasfi,
  • Santiago Gomez-Rosero and
  • Miriam A. M. Capretz

18 April 2024

In the world of human–robot coexistence, ensuring safe interactions is crucial. Traditional logic-based methods often lack the intuition required for robots, particularly in complex environments where these methods fail to account for all possi...

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34 Citations
8,108 Views
26 Pages

Virtual Reality Teleoperation System for Mobile Robot Manipulation

  • Bryan R. Galarza,
  • Paulina Ayala,
  • Santiago Manzano and
  • Marcelo V. Garcia

29 November 2023

Over the past few years, the industry has experienced significant growth, leading to what is now known as Industry 4.0. This advancement has been characterized by the automation of robots. Industries have embraced mobile robots to enhance efficiency...

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6 Citations
7,957 Views
23 Pages

An Open PLC-Based Robot Control System for 3D Concrete Printing

  • Daniel Kajzr,
  • Tomas Myslivec and
  • Josef Cernohorsky

Three-dimensional concrete printing technology is currently a very topical and developing subject. There is a large number of applications worldwide where this technology can be used. In connection with this technology, the development of custom indu...

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20 Citations
7,895 Views
24 Pages

What Affects Human Decision Making in Human–Robot Collaboration?: A Scoping Review

  • Yuan Liu,
  • Glenda Caldwell,
  • Markus Rittenbruch,
  • Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira,
  • Alan Burden and
  • Matthias Guertler

9 February 2024

The advent of Industry 4.0 has heralded advancements in Human–robot Collaboration (HRC), necessitating a deeper understanding of the factors influencing human decision making within this domain. This scoping review examines the breadth of resea...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,817 Views
18 Pages

Inverse Kinematics of a Class of 6R Collaborative Robots with Non-Spherical Wrist

  • Luca Carbonari,
  • Matteo-Claudio Palpacelli and
  • Massimo Callegari

The spread of cobotsin common industrial practice has led constructors to prefer the development of collaborative features that are necessary to prevent injuries to operators over the realization of simple kinematic structures for which the joints-to...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,783 Views
17 Pages

Grasping Profile Control of a Soft Pneumatic Robotic Gripper for Delicate Gripping

  • Gridsada Phanomchoeng,
  • Patchara Pitchayawetwongsa,
  • Nattaphat Boonchumanee,
  • Saravut Lin and
  • Ratchatin Chancharoen

17 July 2023

Soft pneumatic grippers (SPGs) have garnered significant attention and recognition in various industries owing to their remarkable flexibility, safety, and adaptability. They excel in manipulating delicate, irregularly shaped, and soft objects, surpa...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,730 Views
31 Pages

NU-Biped-4.5: A Lightweight and Low-Prototyping-Cost Full-Size Bipedal Robot

  • Michele Folgheraiter,
  • Sharafatdin Yessirkepov and
  • Timur Umurzakov

31 December 2023

This paper presents the design of a new lightweight, full-size bipedal robot developed in the Humanoid Robotics Laboratory at Nazarbayev University. The robot, equipped with 12 degrees of freedom (DOFs), stands at 1.1 m tall and weighs only 15 kg (ex...

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19 Citations
7,655 Views
22 Pages

A Comprehensive Multibody Model of a Collaborative Robot to Support Model-Based Health Management

  • Andrea Raviola,
  • Roberto Guida,
  • Antonio Carlo Bertolino,
  • Andrea De Martin,
  • Stefano Mauro and
  • Massimo Sorli

Digital models of industrial and collaborative manipulators are widely used for several applications, such as power-efficient trajectory definition, human–robot cooperation safety improvement, and prognostics and health management (PHM) algorit...

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9 Citations
7,650 Views
23 Pages

A Dynamic Approach to Low-Cost Design, Development, and Computational Simulation of a 12DoF Quadruped Robot

  • Md. Hasibur Rahman,
  • Saadia Binte Alam,
  • Trisha Das Mou,
  • Mohammad Faisal Uddin and
  • Mahady Hasan

17 February 2023

Robots equipped with legs have significant potential for real-world applications. Many industries, including those concerned with instruction, aid, security, and surveillance, have shown interest in legged robots. However, these robots are typically...

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4 Citations
7,631 Views
17 Pages

Improving the Grasping Force Behavior of a Robotic Gripper: Model, Simulations, and Experiments

  • Giuseppe Vitrani,
  • Simone Cortinovis,
  • Luca Fiorio,
  • Marco Maggiali and
  • Rocco Antonio Romeo

31 October 2023

Robotic grippers allow industrial robots to interact with the surrounding environment. However, control architectures of the grasping force are still rare in common industrial grippers. In this context, one or more sensors (e.g., force or torque sens...

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13 Citations
7,589 Views
37 Pages

A Broad View on Robot Self-Defense: Rapid Scoping Review and Cultural Comparison

  • Martin Cooney,
  • Masahiro Shiomi,
  • Eduardo Kochenborger Duarte and
  • Alexey Vinel

16 March 2023

With power comes responsibility: as robots become more advanced and prevalent, the role they will play in human society becomes increasingly important. Given that violence is an important problem, the question emerges if robots could defend people, e...

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1 Citations
7,563 Views
17 Pages

Visual–Inertial Odometry (VIO) algorithms are widely adopted for autonomous drone navigation in GNSS-denied environments. However, conventional monocular and stereo VIO setups often lack robustness under challenging environmental conditions or...

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18 Citations
7,524 Views
17 Pages

Design of a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm for Feeding Assistance of Upper-Limb Impaired Patients

  • Simone Leone,
  • Luigi Giunta,
  • Vincenzo Rino,
  • Simone Mellace,
  • Alessio Sozzi,
  • Francesco Lago,
  • Elio Matteo Curcio,
  • Doina Pisla and
  • Giuseppe Carbone

26 February 2024

This paper delineates the design and realization of a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm (WMRA), envisioned as an autonomous assistance apparatus for individuals encountering motor difficulties and/or upper limb paralysis. The proposed design solution is...

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11 Citations
7,444 Views
17 Pages

One of the most difficult parts of stroke therapy is hand mobility recovery. Indeed, stroke is a serious medical disorder that can seriously impair hand and locomotor movement. To improve hand function in stroke patients, new medical technologies, su...

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15 Citations
7,435 Views
30 Pages

Research Perspectives in Collaborative Assembly: A Review

  • Thierry Yonga Chuengwa,
  • Jan Adriaan Swanepoel,
  • Anish Matthew Kurien,
  • Mukondeleli Grace Kanakana-Katumba and
  • Karim Djouani

In recent years, the emergence of Industry 4.0 technologies has introduced manufacturing disruptions that necessitate the development of accompanying socio-technical solutions. There is growing interest for manufacturing enterprises to embrace the dr...

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6 Citations
7,385 Views
24 Pages

Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Automated Code Generation and Verification

  • Unai Antero,
  • Francisco Blanco,
  • Jon Oñativia,
  • Damien Sallé and
  • Basilio Sierra

11 September 2024

The cost landscape in advanced technology systems is shifting dramatically. Traditionally, hardware costs took the spotlight, but now, programming and debugging complexities are gaining prominence. This paper explores this shift and its implications,...

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7 Citations
7,358 Views
44 Pages

A Systematic Literature Review of DDS Middleware in Robotic Systems

  • Muhammad Liman Gambo,
  • Abubakar Danasabe,
  • Basem Almadani,
  • Farouq Aliyu,
  • Abdulrahman Aliyu and
  • Esam Al-Nahari

The increasing demand for automation has led to the complexity of the design and operation of robotic systems. This paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) focused on the applications and challenges of Data Distribution Service (DDS)-base...

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39 Citations
7,277 Views
45 Pages

Holistic Review of UAV-Centric Situational Awareness: Applications, Limitations, and Algorithmic Challenges

  • Somaiyeh MahmoudZadeh,
  • Amirmehdi Yazdani,
  • Yashar Kalantari,
  • Bekir Ciftler,
  • Fathi Aidarus and
  • Mhd Omar Al Kadri

29 July 2024

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of UAV-centric situational awareness (SA), delineating its applications, limitations, and underlying algorithmic challenges. It highlights the pivotal role of advanced algorithmic and strategic insights, inc...

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7 Citations
7,211 Views
18 Pages

Obstacle-crossing and stair-climbing abilities are crucial to the performance of mobile robots for urban environment mobility. This paper proposes a tracked stair-climbing robot with two bogie-like suspensions to overcome architectural barriers. Afte...

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