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Mixed Reality Platform to Support Human-Robot Bi-directional Interaction
This work proposes a Mixed Reality (MR) application, designed for HoloLens 2 which enables seamless interaction between collaborative robots and human operators, regardless of their prior experience or experti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mixed Reality Platform Supporting Human-Robot Interaction
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is an interdisciplinary research field aiming to study and develop platform in which robots (and in particular collaborative robots, also called cobots) can interact and collabora...
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Cooperative Manipulators
This chapter presents an overview of the main modeling and control issues related to cooperative manipulation of a common object by means of two or more robotic manipulators. A historical path is followed to p...
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Cooperative Manipulation of an Unknown Object via Omnidirectional Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This paper addresses the problem of cooperative manipulation and transportation of large and/or heavy unknown objects via a team of aerial robots. In particular, the chosen aerial platform is an omnidirectiona...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Inverse Dynamics Control
This chapter presents an introduction to inverse dynamics control, a well-established model-based motion control approach for robotic manipulators. Inverse dynamics control in joint space is first introduced a...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Multiple Unmanned Aerial Manipulator Systems, Coordinated Control of
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Computed-Torque Control
This entry presents an introduction to computed-torque control, a well-established model-based motion control approach for robotic manipulators, which can be seen as a special case of inverse dynamics control....
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Cooperative Manipulators
This chapter presents an overview of the main modeling and control issues related to cooperative manipulation of a common object by means of two or more robotic manipulators. A historical path is followed to p...
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The EuRoC Project: Motivations and Design of the Challenges
This chapter describes the main motivations leading to the EuroC project and the design of the three Challenges. The design of the European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC) project was based on the belief that the ...
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Evaluation and Selection Activities in EuRoC: Innovations and Lessons Learned
This chapter describes the evaluation activities carried out during the three stages of EuRoC. Evaluation and selection activities in EuRoC have represented a central issue. In fact, the successful development...
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Coordinated Control of Multiple Aerial Manipulators
This chapter is focused on the control of systems composed by multiple Aerial Robotic Manipulators (i.e., aerial vehicles equipped with grippers and/or robotic arms). In detail, a hierarchical framework for th...
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Cooperative Manipulation
This chapter is devoted to cooperative manipulation of a common object by means of two or more robotic arms. The chapter opens with a historical overview of the research on cooperative manipulation, ranging fr...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Cooperative Manipulators
This chapter presents an overview of the main issues related to modeling and control of cooperative robotic manipulators. A historical path is followed to present the main research results on cooperative manip...
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A Decentralized Architecture for Multi-Robot Systems Based on the Null-Space-Behavioral Control with Application to Multi-Robot Border Patrolling
This paper presents a control architecture for multi-robot systems. The proposed architecture has been developed in the framework of the Null-Space-based-Behavioral (NSB) control, a competitive-collaborative b...
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A non-iterative and effective procedure for simultaneous odometry and camera calibration for a differential drive mobile robot based on the singular value decomposition
Differential-drive mobile robots are usually equipped with video cameras for navigation purposes. In order to ensure proper operational capabilities of such systems, several calibration steps are required to e...
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Italy
We report the results of the second self-reported juvenile delinquency survey (ISRD2), carried out in Italy 14 years after the first (ISRD1) survey (Gatti et al., 1994). The second survey differs from the firs...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visual Tracking of Multiple Objects Using Binary Space Partitioning Trees
The use of visual sensors may have high impact in robotic applications where it is required to measure the pose (position and orientation) and the visual features of objects moving in unstructured environments...
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Real-Time Visual Tracking of 3D-Objects
The use of visual sensors may have high impact in applications where it ist required to measure the pose (position and orientation) and the visual features of object moving in unstructured environments. In rob...
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Fault Diagnosis for Industrial Robots
In the last decade considerable research efforts have been spent to seek for systematic approaches to Fault Diagnosis (FD) in dynamical systems. Special attention has been put in robotic systems, especially fo...