This study investigated indoor environmental air quality (IEAQ) across university workspaces at a higher education institution in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), assessing environmental conditions that may influence occupant health, the surround...
Indoor air problems are complicated and need to be approached from many perspectives. In this research, we studied the association of four-level categorisation of the probability of abnormal indoor air (IA) exposure with the work environment-related...
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The aim of this study was to develop and test a tool for assessing urgency of indoor air quality (IAQ) measures. The condition of the 27 buildings were investigated and results were categorized. Statistical test studied the differences between the ca...
This article presents the analysis of a parallel mechanism of type 3-SPS-U. The usual singularity approach is carried out with respect to the Euler angles of the universal joint. However, this approach is computationally expensive especially when sta...
At present, in specific and complex industrial operations, robots have to respect certain requirements and criteria as high kinematic or dynamic performance, specific dimensions of the workspace, or limitation of the dimensions of the mobile elements...
“Experiments were conducted at DIMEG, University of Calabria, located in the main campus in Arcavacata di Rende, Italy.” This article focuses on the study of the geometry, direct and inverse kinematics, workspace, and singularity of a nov...
In this paper, the geometrical design of a (2-RRU)-URR (where R and U stand for the revolute and universal joints, respectively) parallel mechanism was demonstrated for thumb rehabilitation therapy. This paper consists of two parts: the design proced...
The epidemiological situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led to efforts to mitigate the transmission of the infection, forcing workers and students to stay at home. Universities closed, as did many businesses, forcing education and work to adapt...
Traditionally, the determination of the Denavit–Hartenberg (DH) parameters for serial robotic manipulators is a manual process that depends on manufacturer documentation or user-defined conventions, often leading to inefficiency and ambiguity i...
The risk of tip-over is a common problem in agile, lightweight mobile manipulators. An easy-to-implement and reliable stabilization strategy plays a key role for the wide operation of these highly dynamic systems in the industrial sector. This study...
3-XXRRU parallel manipulators (PMs) constitute a family of six-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) PMs with three limbs of type XXRRU, where R and U stand for revolute pair and universal joint, respectively, and XX indicates any actuated two-DOF mechanism that...
The aim of this research was to evaluate how the quality interior design aspects of the staff office spaces at the Girls’ College of Science and Arts, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia, affect their happiness, comfort and performance of thei...
Happiness is a natural human right that all seek to achieve. The quality of people’s lives may be directly affected by the quality of their working life, which is affected by the quality of their work environment. This has become the focus of attenti...
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...
Accessible design within the built environment has often focused on mobility conditions and has recently widened to include mental health. Additionally, as one in seven are neurodivergent (including conditions such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and dysp...
This paper presents the implementation of a vision system for a collaborative robot equipped with a web camera and a Python-based control algorithm for automated object-sorting tasks. The vision system aims to detect, classify, and manipulate objects...
Educational facilities are the physical environment that supports the academic process for a better education. The quality of offices as workspaces is crucial in creating a supportive environment to enhance the staff and students’ experience. T...
In this paper, we propose a new virtual reality (VR) concept referred to as ‘context control’, which we use to describe VR workspaces that are dynamically reconfigurable based on the task at hand and the user’s individual learning a...
Human–robot collaboration (HRC) can be defined as the close interaction between a human user and a robot working together to accomplish a specific task. True collaboration, however, can only be realized when humans and robots can share the same...
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) has long been employed across multiple research domains to document surface textures, inscriptions, and fine morphological features, including paleontology. However, RTI requires specialized equipment and cont...
In this study, thermal comfort parameters and illuminance (E) are investigated in four differently oriented workspaces at Najran University, using an R data logger and an Extech HD450 lux meter in accordance with international standards. The findings...
Interdisciplinary cross-cultural and cross-organizational research offers great opportunities for innovative breakthroughs in the field of smart cities, yet it also presents organizational and knowledge development hurdles. Smart cities must be large...
Sustainability within higher education institutions (HEIs) is a well-established topic in the literature. Many fields of education for sustainable development have been explored, mainly focused on HEI students, as well as on academic staff. The techn...
Educational mechatronics aims to be the evolution of educational robotics so it can be identified as a part of the educational paradigm of the university, its academic spaces, infrastructure, and practical activities. The fundamental goal of this fra...
In this paper, we introduce an immersive Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) arena where multiple mobile robots interact with virtual sensors and actuators, enabling novice students to explore distributed and parallel algorithms. The arena uses overhead...
This article presents the findings of experimental research conducted to assess the stability of the force mode of the UR5e cobot from Universal Robots in the low-force range, from 1 N to 10 N. The set values of the robot’s forces and the physi...
This paper presents a comparative analysis of three workspace discretization strategies, Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical, integrated into a graph-based path planning application developed in Python and connected to RoboDK. The study starts from...
Building design is one of the essential elements to consider for maximizing the sustainability of construction. Prior studies on energy and resource consumption and on indoor environmental quality indicators (IEQs) are increasingly frequent; however,...
The paper considers the problem of interaction between robots with parallel and serial structures that are part of a robotic system for aliquoting biomaterials. An approach to selecting the relative position and limiting the ranges of movement of man...
A novel type of spatial three revolute-cylindrical-universal (3-RCU) flexible micro manipulator is designed based on flexible hinges, and analyzed by finite element analysis (FEA). The piezoelectric actuators are adopted as driving devices in this pl...
Time-of-flight sensors have emerged as a viable solution for real-time distance sensing in robotic safety applications due to their compact size, fast response, and contactless operation. This study addresses one of the key challenges with time-of-fl...
The acoustic conditions of open-plan office spaces influence the well-being and productivity perceived by users. However, with an inadequate evaluation of the workspace, acoustic design in open-plan offices can be a factor that alters user performanc...
Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs) are research institutions in which researchers from several German universities work together within a multidisciplinary research programme. A large number of projects led by one or several researchers from the p...
This article presents a gamified digital twin in Minecraft designed to support practical exercises in digital logic in the Computer Engineering I course at the University of Salamanca. Implemented as a Spigot/Paper server plugin based on the Platform...
As occupants spend almost 90% of their day indoors, especially in the workplaces, Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) plays a primary role in health and wellbeing, productivity, and building energy consumption. Adopting the IEQ and Post-Occupancy Eval...
Plastic recycling has been a challenge worldwide due to various reasons, including limited profit margins, the demand for high-quality plastic reprocessing techniques to make products comparable to those from virgin materials, and challenges in sorti...
Accurate kinematic parameter identification is essential for space manipulators to attain millimeter-level positioning accuracy and robust motion control. This study develops a universal strategy for comprehensive parameter identification by establis...
The use of innovative technologies in workspaces, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart systems, has been increasing, yet it remains in the minority of the total number of smart system applications. However, universities and technopoles are...
Hyper-redundant manipulators with multiple degrees of freedom have special application prospects in narrow spaces, such as detection in small spaces in aerospace, rescue on-site disaster relief, etc. In order to solve the problems of complex obstacle...
This work presents a validation process of a Helmholtz cage developed by the authors at AGH University of Krakow. This type of test stand can generate a near-uniform, precisely controlled magnetic field inside its workspace. This is a crucial tool fo...
This study examines how structured interventions influence team creativity on a metaverse-based collaboration platform. Using B.sket, a custom virtual workspace, we tested two interventions during an online brainstorming task: (1) real-time participa...
BIM (building information modelling) has gained wider acceptance in the AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry. Conversion from 3D point cloud data to vector BIM data remains a challenging and labour-intensive process, but particu...
The common rail pressure has a direct influence on the working stability of Opposed-Piston Two-Stroke (OP2S) diesel engines, especially on performance indexes such as power, economy and emissions. Meanwhile, the rail pressure overshoot phenomenon occ...
In a human–robot collaboration scenario, operator safety is the main problem and must be guaranteed under all conditions. Collision avoidance control techniques are essential to improve operator safety and robot flexibility by preventing impacts that...
University libraries are essential academic spaces, yet existing smart systems often overlook user perception in environmental optimization. A key challenge is the lack of adaptive frameworks balancing objective sensor data with subjective user exper...
This study investigated the application of Covariant Hamiltonian Optimization for Motion Planning (CHOMP) in the MATLAB programming environment to an industrially relevant Universal Robots UR5e six-DOF manipulator. The parameters were set to be equal...
This paper describes an empirical experiment of Internet of Things (IoT)’s integration in the Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) process. The experiment aimed to trial a novel IoT approach to enabling building user responsiveness to prevalent IEQ...