This study presents the development of a software solution for processing, analyzing, and visualizing sensor data collected by an educational mobile robot. The focus is on statistical analysis and identifying correlations between diverse datasets. Th...
This study focuses on aspects specific to adaptive mobile robotic systems. These include providing flexibility, high performance, the use of widely available element bases and others. The science intensity and technical level of the development of mo...
Good path planning technology of mobile robot can not only save a lot of time, but also reduce the wear and capital investment of mobile robot. Several methodologies have been proposed and reported in the literature for the path planning of mobile ro...
This paper presents a mobile robot concept. To understand what has led to the choice of this particular design, one must first understand mobile robots in general: what are the trends, where are they used, etc. Then, some of the necessary elements fo...
The continued development of mobile robots (MR) must be accompanied by an increase in robotics’ safety measures. Not only must MR be capable of detecting and diagnosing faults, they should also be capable of understanding when the dangers of a...
This paper describes the evolution of the Assistant Personal Robot (APR) project developed at the Robotics Laboratory of the University of Lleida, Spain. This paper describes the first APR-01 prototype developed, the basic hardware improvement, the s...
While the demand for new high-tech technologies is rapidly increasing, difficulties are presented, such as aging and population decline in rural areas. In particular, autonomous mobile robots have been emerging in the agricultural field. Worldwide, h...
The involvement of robots in building construction is already a global trend. Compared with the current stage of construction in which a large number of people are involved, the stability of the robot construction process will greatly affect the cons...
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...
This paper presents the development of a visual-perception system on a dual-arm mobile robot for human-robot interaction. This visual system integrates three subsystems. Hand gesture recognition is utilized to trigger human-robot interaction. Engagem...
This paper reports the design and construction of a laser speckle velocimeter for application to mobile industrial robots. It is intended to supplement the typically used simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) approach by providing enhanced odo...
Cooperative mobile robot applications enable robots to perform tasks that are more complex than those that each single robot can perform alone. In this application context, communication networks play a very important role, as they have to cope with...
This paper aims to investigate the possibility of combining humanoid robots, particularly the NAO robot, with a mobile application to enhance the educational experiences of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The NAO robot, interfaced with...
This review paper addresses the escalating operation and maintenance costs of nuclear power plants, primarily attributed to rising labor costs and intensified competition from renewable energy sources. The paper proposes a paradigm shift towards a te...
Mobile robots are expected to traverse on unstructured terrain, especially uneven terrain, or to climb obstacles or slopes. This paper analyzes one such passively–actively transformable mobile robot that is principally aimed at the above issue....
Omnidirectional mobile wall-climbing robots have better motion performance than traditional wall-climbing robots. However, there are still challenges in designing and controlling omnidirectional mobile wall-climbing robots, which can attach to non-fe...
Learning how to navigate autonomously in an unknown indoor environment without colliding with static and dynamic obstacles is important for mobile robots. The conventional mobile robot navigation system does not have the ability to learn autonomously...
This article proposes a deformable water-mobile robot that can be used for rescue work. The robot body adopts an open-motion chain structure with two degrees of freedom, including two drive modules and one main control module. The three modules are c...
This work proposes a new interface for the teleoperation of mobile robots based on virtual reality that allows a natural and intuitive interaction and cooperation between the human and the robot, which is useful for many situations, such as inspectio...
Although additive manufacturing is a relatively new technology, it has been widely accepted by industry and academia due to the wide variety of prototypes that can be built. Furthermore, using mobile robots to carry out different tasks allows greater...
In recent years in mobile robotics, the focus has been on methods, in which the fusion of measurement data from various systems leads to models of the environment that are of a probabilistic type. The cognitive model of the environment is less accura...
This article proposes a mobile robot that is fully constructed and actuated by utilising a pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM). Several features are shown in this design including softness, lightweight, and shape change. The robot that has been designe...
This work presents the development of a differential-drive wheeled mobile robot educational prototype, manufactured using 3D additive techniques. The robot is powered by an embedded ARM-based computing system and uses open-source software. To validat...
This research aims to develop a visual tracking system for a UAV which guides a drone to track a mobile robot and accurately land on it when it stops moving. Two LEDs with different colors were installed on the bottom of the drone. The visual trackin...
This work presents a Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithm to control a differentially driven mobile robot. This study seeks to explain the influence of different definitions of the environment with a mobile robot on the learning process. In our stud...
This paper proposes a new type of omnidirectional mobile robot for land and air, which has three motion modes, combines the motion characteristics of land motion and air flight, has the ability to climb walls, and can be actively deformed to adapt to...
This research paper proposes a real-time obstacle avoidance strategy for mobile robots with a monocular camera. The approach uses a binary semantic segmentation FCN-VGG-16 to extract features from images captured by the monocular camera and estimate...
In this paper, a wheel-legged mobile robot is proposed. The parameter design of the wheel-leg structure is completed using geometric analysis and statics modeling. The curling mechanism is chosen as the main part of the robot, expanding the robot&rsq...
This study focuses on the features of transport (locomotion) systems of mobile mini-robots (MMR), i.e., small unmanned ground vehicles of a portable type measuring several tens of centimeters and weighing no more than 15 kg. A distinctive feature of...
With the rapid advances in science and technology, ships that do not require any crew on board (i.e., autonomous ships) are being actively researched. Several studies on unmanned ships are in progress, and unmanned engine room studies are also being...
Autonomous navigation is one of the key tasks in the development of control systems for real autonomous mobile objects. This paper presents the developed technology for accurately determining the position of a mobile robot in an autonomous operating...
Motion control in dynamic environments is one of the most important problems in using mobile robots in collaboration with humans and other robots. In this paper, the motion control of a four-Mecanum-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robot (OMR) in dynam...
Asparagus harvesting presents unique challenges, due to the variability in spear growth, which makes large-scale automated harvesting difficult. This paper describes the development of an asparagus harvesting robot system. The system consists of a de...
Mobile robots have played a vital role in the transportation industries, service robotics, and autonomous vehicles over the past decades. The development of robust tracking controllers has made mobile robots a powerful tool that can replace humans in...
The four-wheeled Mecanum robot is widely used in various industries due to its maneuverability and strong load capacity, which is suitable for performing precise transportation tasks in a narrow environment. While the Mecanum wheel robot has mobility...
To avoid issues such as the greenhouse working robot’s inability to perform normal tasks or reduced working accuracy due to the influence of uneven ground, this study designed a set of greenhouse self-balancing mobile robots. The self-balancing...
The current computational advance allows the development of technological solutions using tools, such as mobile robots and programmable electronic systems. We present a design that integrates the Khepera IV mobile robot with an NVIDIA Jetson Xavier N...
Autonomous mobile robots are an important focus of current research due to the advantages they bring to the industry, such as performing dangerous tasks with greater precision than humans. An autonomous mobile robot must be able to generate a collisi...
The symmetry of the omnidirectional robot motion abilities around its central vertical axis is an important advantage regarding its driveability for the flexible interoperation with fixed conveyor systems. The paper illustrates a Hardware in the Loop...
Mobile robots used for search and rescue suffer from uncertain time duration for sustainable operation. Solar energy has the drawback that it fluctuates depending on the weather. By integrating the battery and supercapacitor, the energy management sy...
Visual homing is an attractive autonomous mobile robot navigation technique, which only uses vision sensors to guide the robot to the specified target location. Landmark is the only input form of the visual homing approaches, which is usually represe...
This paper proposes a novel control system for the path planning of an omnidirectional mobile robot based on mixed reality. Most research on mobile robots is carried out in a completely real environment or a completely virtual environment. However, a...
This study presents a new path planning method based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) for a mobile robot to be effectively operated through a multi-objective decision making problem. Unlike typical AHP, the proposed FAHP has a difference in...
A mobile robot is a futuristic technology that is changing the industry of automobiles as well as boosting the operations of on-demand services and applications. The navigation capability of mobile robots is a crucial task and one of the complex proc...
This paper presents an application of Hierarchical Systems (HS) technology in conceptual and detailed design of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system to control a mobile robot. The BCI is a biomechatronic system that includes biological (brain), comp...
The research of mobile robot path planning has shifted from the static environment to the dynamic environment, from the two-dimensional environment to the high-dimensional environment, and from the single-robot system to the multi-robot system. As th...
In order to transport materials flexibly and smoothly in a tight plant environment, an omni-directional mobile robot based on four Mecanum wheels was designed. The mechanical system of the mobile robot is made up of three separable layers so as to si...
Autonomous mobile robots have become a very popular and interesting topic in the last decade. Each of them are equipped with various types of sensors such as GPS, camera, infrared and ultrasonic sensors. These sensors are used to observe the surround...
This research work presents the design and the development of a cost-effective autonomous mobile robot for locating misplaced objects within unstructured indoor environments. The tools integrated into the proposed system for perception and localizati...
With the development of Industry 4.0, collaborative mobile robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in industrial settings, raising important safety considerations in human–robot interaction environments. This study examines the safety issues...
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