Robotics, Volume 9, Issue 3

This paper presents an obstacle-avoidance trajectory tracking method based on a nonlinear model prediction, with a dynamic environment considered in the trajectory tracking of nonholonomic mobile robots for obstacle avoidance. In this method, collisi...

Research reveals that robotics can be a valuable tool for school students with special needs (SNs). However, to our knowledge, empirical studies on teachers’ attitudes towards educational robotics for SNs students have been very limited and, in...

In recent years, force control has become more important due to the physical interaction of robots with humans and applications of robots to complex environments. Impedance control is widely used in force control; however, it cannot reproduce the beh...

Intelligent vehicles for search and rescue, whose mission is assisting emergency personnel by visually exploring an unfamiliar building, require accurate localization. With GPS not available, and approaches relying on new infrastructure installation,...

Today’s technological development inevitably defies educational approaches in terms of future demand for skills to be imparted. Among other skills, the capacity to operate and communicate effectively within multidisciplinary realms is duly cons...

This paper presents the first demonstration of NASA’s Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor (SVGS) as real-time position and attitude estimator for proximity and formation maneuvers. An optimal linear quadratic Gaussian controller was used, combinin...

Accurate kinematic models are essential for effective control of surgical robots. For tendon driven robots, which are common for minimally invasive surgery, the high nonlinearities in the transmission make modelling complex. Machine learning techniqu...

The thumb assists other fingers, and any damage in its functionality prevents the human hand from performing dexterous functions. In this paper, the kinematic design of the (2–RRU)–URR parallel mechanism as the application of the thumb re...

The increasing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in safety-critical missions in both civilian and military areas demands accurate and reliable navigation, where one of the key sources of navigation information is presented by Global Navigation S...

3D printing is a widely used technology that has been recently applied in construction to reduce construction time significantly. A large 3D printer often uses a traditional Cartesian robot with inherent problems, such as position errors and printing...