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Open AccessA neuromorphic dataset for tabletop object segmentation in indoor cluttered environment
Event-based cameras are commonly leveraged to mitigate issues such as motion blur, low dynamic range, and limited time sampling, which plague conventional cameras. However, a lack of dedicated event-based data...
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Open AccessDrone-Person Tracking in Uniform Appearance Crowd: A New Dataset
Drone-person tracking in uniform appearance crowds poses unique challenges due to the difficulty in distinguishing individuals with similar attire and multi-scale variations. To address this issue and facilita...
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Synthesis and Micro-CT Driven Void Analysis of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Skin for 1D Morphing Wings
Recently, there has been a growing interest in the development of adaptive wing structures for aerospace purposes. One promising approach involves utilizing carbon fiber-reinforced elastomeric skins, enabling ...
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Open AccessHigh speed neuromorphic vision-based inspection of countersinks in automated manufacturing processes
Countersink inspection is crucial in various automated assembly lines, especially in the aerospace and automotive sectors. Advancements in machine vision introduced automated robotic inspection of countersinks...
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Open AccessReal-time gras** strategies using event camera
Robotic vision plays a key role for perceiving the environment in gras** applications. However, the conventional framed-based robotic vision, suffering from motion blur and low sampling rate, may not meet th...
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Sampling-based Non-Holonomic Path Generation for Self-driving Cars
Semi-autonomous self driving car technologies are commercially available today, but making them fully autonomous under guaranteed safety is still an open challenge. There are holonomic robot path planning algo...
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On the Design and Development of Vision-based Tactile Sensors
This paper reviews the existing vision-based tactile sensor (VBTS) designs reported in the literature. Although some reviews on VBTSs already exist in the literature. We believe it is necessary to review exist...
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Feature-based visual simultaneous localization and map**: a survey
Visual simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) has attracted high attention over the past few years. In this paper, a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art feature-based visual SLAM approaches is p...
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Open AccessA particle swarm optimization approach using adaptive entropy-based fitness quantification of expert knowledge for high-level, real-time cognitive robotic control
High-level, real-time mission control of semi-autonomous robots, deployed in remote and dynamic environments, remains a challenge. Control models, learnt from a knowledgebase, quickly become obsolete when the ...
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A survey on multi-robot coverage path planning for model reconstruction and map**
There has been an increasing interest in researching, develo** and deploying multi-robot systems. This has been driven mainly by: the maturity of the practical deployment of a single-robot system and its abi...
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Coverage Path Planning for Complex Structures Inspection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
The most critical process in the inspection is the structure coverage which is a time and resource intensive task. In this paper, Search Space Coverage Path Planning (SSCPP) algorithm for inspecting complex st...
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Development of a New Hydraulic Ankle for HYDROïD Humanoid Robot
For humanoid robots, design of the ankle mechanism is still open research problem since high torque is required while compact structures have to be maintained. This paper investigates an enhanced design of 3 d...
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Novel Model for SLAM in UAS
The Simultaneous Localization and Map** (SLAM) problem is of great significance within the modern field of unmanned systems. However, many current methodologies have high cost implications, utilising expensi...
