Robotics, Volume 13, Issue 11

The recent advancements in wearable exoskeletons have highlighted their effectiveness in assisting humans for both rehabilitation and augmentation purposes. These devices interact with the user; therefore, their actuators and power transmission mecha...

Navigation skills are essential for most social and service robotics applications. The robots that are currently in practical use in various complex human environments are generally very limited in their autonomous navigational abilities; while they...

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based navigation in an environment with dynamic obstacles is a challenging task due to the partially observable nature of the problem. While DRL algorithms are built around the Markov property (assumption that all th...

Soft actuators have enabled the growth of soft robotics, overcoming several drawbacks of rigid robotics by providing devices with many degrees of freedom and the ability to grasp, bend, move, jump, and more. The reconfiguration of the workspace is st...

Medical ultrasound is a widely used diagnostic imaging modality that provides real-time imaging at a relatively low cost. However, its widespread application is hindered by the need for expert operation, particularly in remote regional areas where tr...

This study aims to experimentally determine the most suitable control interface for different subtasks in the teleoperation of construction robots in a simulation environment. We compare a conventional lever-based rate control interface (“Rate-...

This article investigates the model-based control in configurations space of a soft continuum manipulator for minimally invasive surgery. The main control challenges for these types of systems are the presence of model uncertainties and nonlinearitie...

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of a novel methodology to enhance the commissioning processes of robotic production lines in the automotive sector, with a particular emphasis on the implementation of offline programming (OLP) methods. The pr...

As a result of a rapidly aging population and the increasing prevalence of dementia among older adults, technological solutions are increasingly being considered to facilitate caregiving. This research investigates the perspectives of 20 caregiving d...

The present article explores the impact of educational robotics on fostering computational thinking and problem-solving skills in elementary school students through a problem-based learning approach. This study involved the creation of a framework wh...

The engineering of actuation systems for active exoskeletons presents a significant challenge due to the stringent demands for mass reduction and compactness, coupled with complex specifications for actuator dynamics and stroke length. This challenge...

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...

Inertial Measurement Units are widely used in various applications and, hardware-wise, they primarily consist of a tri-axial accelerometer and a tri-axial gyroscope. For low-end commercial employments, the low cost of the device is crucial: this make...

Robotic manipulators inevitably experience the impact of uncertainties and errors, such as dimensional tolerances and joint clearances. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel method based on an interval approach to evaluate the kinematic reliability...