Modular robots are flexible structures that offer versatility and configuration options for carrying out different types of movements; however, disconnection problems between the modules can lead to the loss of information, and, therefore, the propos...
Mechatronic systems, like mobile robots, are fairly complex. They are composed of electromechanical actuation components and sensing elements supervised by microcontrollers running complex embedded software. This paper proposes a novel approach to ai...
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...
Unlike conventional software, robotic software suffers from a lack of methods and processes that could systematize and facilitate development. Thus, the application of software engineering techniques is at the heart of current issues in robotics. The...
Reliable wall-relative localization is required for robotic cleaning of aquaculture-vessel bulkheads, where sensor availability changes across the air–water interface. A two-stage study separated measured dry-wall performance from a controlled...
Although the mobile manipulation capability is crucial for a service robot to perform physical work without human support, the long-term autonomous operation of such a mobile manipulation robot in a real environment is still a tremendously difficult...
Software reuse has potential for educational purposes since it uses decomposition and abstraction, two necessary skills to learn programming. Software reuse techniques require abstractions that are not obvious to students or even to professionals. Ta...
Introductory engineering courses must balance guidance with opportunities for independent design. This retrospective repeated-cross-sectional mixed-methods study examined perceptions of a two-semester course progressing from guided Arduino-based acti...
Before the introduction of positioning technologies in agriculture practices such as global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), data collection and management were time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks. Today, due to the introduction of advanced...
Software for robotic systems is becoming progressively more complex despite the existence of established software ecosystems like ROS, as the problems we delegate to robots become more and more challenging. Ensuring that the software works as intende...
This article identifies and summarizes software tools and frameworks proposed in the Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) literature for developing extended reality (XR) experiences using game engines. This review includes primary studies proposing Vi...
In recent years, modularity has become increasingly present in the field of robotics and mechatronics. The need to easily calculate and generate modular robots in an easier and faster way and for a wide range of robotics projects has increased. This...
In the last few years, the interest in the use of robots in STEM education has risen. However, their main drawback is the high cost, which makes it almost impossible for schools to have one robot per student. Another drawback is the proprietary natur...
The objective of this work is to develop a framework that can deploy and provide coordination between multiple heterogeneous agents when a swarm robotic system adopts a decentralized approach; each robot evaluates its relative rank among the other ro...
This paper presents a software application developed in Python (v3.9) for obstacle avoidance trajectory planning in the RoboDK (v6.0) virtual environment. The proposed method automatically scans the virtual station, identifies obstacles, discretizes...
In robotized industrial scenarios, the need for efficiency and flexibility is increasing, especially when tasks must be executed in dangerous environments and/or require the simultaneous manipulation of dangerous/fragile objects by multiple heterogen...
Robotic systems increasingly operate in complex and distributed environments, where software deployment and orchestration pose major challenges. This paper presents a model-driven approach that automates the containerized deployment of robotic system...
In recent years, soft modular robots have become popular among researchers with the development of soft robotics. However, the absence of a visual 3D simulation platform for soft modular robots hold back the development of the field. The three-dimens...
The relevance of the study is confirmed by the rapid development of automation in agriculture, in particular, horticulture; the lack of methodological developments to assess the effectiveness of the introduction of robotic technologies; and the need...
Year-round utilization of agricultural robotic platforms requires adaptable systems capable of performing multiple operations with interchangeable end-effectors. Although mechanical tool-changing mechanisms are well established, software interoperabi...
Efficient coordination among software modules is essential for biomimetic robotic systems, much like the interaction among organs in a biological organism. However, implementing inter-process or inter-module communication in autonomous systems remain...
Today’s business environments face rapid digital transformation, engendering the continuous emerging of new technologies. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the new technologies rapidly and increasingly grabbing the attention of businesses. R...
This article focuses on the design, development and optimization of a mechanical system with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the production process. The article describes the issues involved in the production of molds used for EPS (Expanded P...
In this work, we present the design, implementation, and testing of a guidance system for the UX-1 robot, a novel spherical underwater vehicle designed to explore and map flooded underground mines. For this purpose, it needs to navigate completely au...
This paper presents a software architecture to implement a task-motion planning system that can improve human-robot interactions by including social behavior when social robots provide services related to object manipulation to users. The proposed sy...
The possibilities for using modular space robot systems are constantly growing. To provide individual solutions for the requirements of different missions, modular reconfigurable building blocks can be used. This paper presents the MODKOM toolbox, in...
The discrepancy between simulated and hardware experiments, the reality gap, is a challenge in evolutionary robotics. While strategies have been proposed to address this gap in fixed-body robots, they are not viable when dealing with populations and...
Aeronautical robotic applications use quite large, heavy robots with huge end effectors that are frequently multifunctional. An assembly jig to hold a fuselage panel and two medium-sized six-axis robots fixed on linear axes, referred to as the intern...
To address the urgent need for AI literacy in vocational education, we implemented a 17-week robotics-enhanced micro-major using scaffolded hardware-in-the-loop environments. A longitudinal quasi-experimental design revealed significant gains across...
Robot software development can be considered as a component-driven process, and existing ROS components, such as an ROS node, can be reused to construct robot applications. By reusing the ROS node, the development process of robot software can be sig...
The development of wearable robotic technology has accelerated recently due to active research in industrial technology. Wearable robots are used to help patients with lower-body palsy to walk. This paper reports a generic wearable-robot monitoring s...
Simulator-based digital twins are widely used in robotics education and industrial development to accelerate prototyping and enable safe experimentation. However, they often hide implementation details that are essential for understanding, diagnosing...
The study provides knowledge on the adoption of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology during the COVID-19 pandemic in 110 Polish service companies. As this research was the first of its kind in Poland, the objectives of the CAWI survey were...
Software verification is an important approach to establishing the reliability of critical systems. One important area of application is in the field of robotics, as robots take on more tasks in both day-to-day areas and highly specialised domains. O...
ISO 9283 is a significant guiding standard for assessing the performance characteristics of robots. The main objective of the present paper was to verify the repeatability of the Panasonic TM-2000 welding robot at a manufacturing company. The paper d...
The paper proposes a new methodological approach for evaluating the comfort condition using the concept of explainable post occupancy to make the user aware of the environmental state in which (s)he works. Such an approach was implemented on a humano...
Developing image-guided robotic systems requires access to flexible, open-source software. For image guidance, the open-source medical imaging platform 3D Slicer is one of the most adopted tools that can be used for research and prototyping. Similarl...
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,...
This study presents a practical approach to developing a prototype outdoor cleaning robot with reduced hardware and software complexity. While indoor cleaning robots are widely adopted, their outdoor counterparts remain costly and less accessible due...
Manufacturing processes in the shoe industry are still characterized to a large extent by human labour, especially in small and medium craft enterprises. Even when machinery is adopted to support manufacturing operations, in most cases an operator ha...
At present, traditional X-ray inspection is used to inspect the welds of the bottom, barrel section and short shell parts of the launch vehicle, which has the disadvantages of low automation, complicated process and low efficiency, and cannot meet th...
Multi-agent systems, robotics and software engineering are large and active research areas with many applications in academia and industry. The First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA), organised the first time in 2...
Although the global population is aging, the proportion of potential caregivers is not keeping pace. It is necessary for society to adapt to this demographic change, and new technologies are a powerful resource for achieving this. New tools and devic...
Recently, a diverse range of robots with various functionalities have become a part of our daily lives. However, these robots either lack an arm or have less capable arms, mainly used for gestures. Another characteristic of the robots is that they ar...
Robust control techniques are crucial for deploying robotic solutions in real applications and handling model uncertainties in robotic manipulators. The inertial parameters are fundamental to implementing control algorithms. While theoretical approac...
Robot Operating System (ROS) applications are growing increasingly complex and distributed, incorporating multi-node architectures, real-time communication, and compute offloading to cloud or edge resources. Despite advances in containerization, larg...
In the present article, the solution for choosing the optimal structural variant of an industrial robot for extracting castings from die casting machines is considered. For this purpose, the process of extracting the castings from the mold is analyze...
Robotics in precision agriculture has the potential to improve competitiveness and increase sustainability compared to current crop production methods and has become an increasingly active area of research. Tractor guidance systems for supervised nav...
The increasing complexity of cyber–physical manufacturing systems demands simulation architectures that scale with the physical plant without a proportional growth in engineering effort. This paper introduces a formal, symmetry-based framework...
Smart cities are an extremely important, multi-faceted subject, both in terms of their practical aspects and in terms of research. This is expressed, among other things, in the multitude of approaches to this concept. These approaches differ based on...
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