Human–robot collaboration (HRC) systems integrate the strengths of humans and robots to improve joint system performance. In particular, human–robot cooperative manipulation (co-manipulation), a prominent area within the field of HRC, in which ...

• A dynamic Bayesian network model for human trust in co-manipulation
• A normalized continuous Baum–Welch algorithm for parameter learning of the trust model
• Variable impedance control for co-manipulation based on trust and intent ...

This paper explores the qualification of a digital twin (DT) for a mobile manipulator (MOMA) in industrial applications. We discuss the development of different DT models based on various industrial needs and highlight the dependence of model ...

To effectively mitigate the spread of epidemics, disinfection robots are increasingly utilized for automatic disinfection. However, tradition robots and disinfection methods cannot ensure controllable disinfection coverage, potentially causing ...

• Proposing a novel UV-C disinfection robot for epidemic control.
• Introducing a multi-side disinfection end-effector for complex surface adaptability.
• Presenting a JPMDP method for optimal coordination of base and manipulator ...

Quadruped robots are gaining attention in the research community because of their superior mobility and versatility in a wide range of applications. However, they are restricted to procedures that do not need precise object interaction. With the ...

• The position and attitude of the chassis are measured by suspension kinematics.
• The attitude of the chassis is improved by fusing accelerometer array data.
• The pose of the chassis is filtered to prevent the manipulator vibration.

In order to expand the application of mobile manipulators in high-precision scenarios, researchers have focused on improving their accuracy. However, it is challenging to eliminate the impact of reference movement on manipulator accuracy during ...

In industry, mobile manipulators are commonly used to perform various tasks. However, current mobile manipulator motion planning still poses significant challenges due to the scalability of the manipulator motion planning, the non-holonomic nature ...

Indoor robots are becoming increasingly prevalent across a range of sectors, but the challenge of navigating multi-level structures through elevators remains largely uncharted. For a robot to operate successfully, it’s pivotal to have an accurate ...

To enable a mobile manipulator to perform human tasks from a single teaching demonstration is vital to flexible automation. We call our proposed method MMPA (Mobile Manipulator Process Automation with One-shot Teaching). Currently, there is no ...

Autonomous robot integration in railways infrastructure maintenance accelerates the digitization and intelligence of infrastructure survey & maintenance, providing high-efficiency and low-cost execution. This paper proposes a health ...

• A site condition-based 3D modelling technique for railway track maintenance and survey.

This paper presents the approach of the RoboCup@Work team tyrolics of the university of Innsbruck to design, develop and build a mobile manipulator with 10 degrees of freedom. The mobile manipulator LeoBot uses Mecanum wheels to enable ...

We address the task of robotic door opening in office environments. This task is important for providing indoor mobility for collaborative mobile manipulators. In our work, we mainly focus on the use of high-level control opportunities and ...

A mobile manipulator is a hybrid of a wheeled vehicle and a robotic arm realizing large locomotion and handling operations that cover many robotic applications, including housework, cleaning, and construction. A mobile base generally achieves ...

The application of zeroing neural network (ZNN) to solve multifarious time-varying problems, especially the dynamic matrix inversion (DMI), is widely used in recent years. As the core components of ZNN model, the activation function (...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the use of the technology in medicine is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. The use of the robotics in the treatment of diseases and physical therapies is limited in Latin America due to the high acquisition ...

This study processes the adaptive robust control problem in a task space for a mobile manipulator with uncertain dynamics and external disturbances based on radial basis function neural networks(RBFNN) and a nonlinear state observer. ...

This paper studies the state-of-the-art of active perception solutions for manipulation in agriculture and suggests a possible architecture for an active perception system for harvesting in agriculture. Research and developing robots for ...

Increasing research attention has been attracted to automatic production processes in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using collaborative robotic systems. In this work, we develop an object detection solution based on deep ...

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• Learning-Based Vision System for Object Detection and Localization.
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With the rapid development of science and technology, the current ordinary industrial manipulator cannot complete the task well, because it is difficult to control. This research mainly discusses the planning and control of the mobile manipulator ...

Trajectory control of mobile manipulator under joint lock failure poses new challenges. In this work fault tolerant scheme is proposed for trajectory control under joint lock failure through reconfiguration while exploiting the existing redundancy ...