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Simulation-only experiments to mimic the effects of the reality gap in the automatic design of robot swarms
The reality gap—the discrepancy between reality and simulation—is a critical issue in the off-line automatic design of control software for robot...
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Development of a master controller for a 3-link dual-arm underwater robot
Master-slave system is a vital technique for controlling robot motions. An intuitive master controller enables precise and easy control of robot,...
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Thrust Optimal Allocation for Broad Types of Underwater Vehicles
Effective thrust allocation for underwater vehicle is very important to realize complex control task. In order to generate optimal thrust allocation...
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Towards a Test Battery to Benchmark Dexterous Performance in Teleoperated Systems
A high level of dexterity is becoming increasingly important for teleoperated inspection, maintenance and repair robots. A standard test to...
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Robotic Motion and Odometry
The focus in this book is on mobile robots that move on a surface. When the robot moves for a period of time its new position can be determined by...
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Verification of illumination tolerance for photo-model-based cloth recognition
Globally, robots are being used in garment factories according to their advantages such as high precision, flexibility, and productivity. However, it...
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A New Look at Robotics in Architecture: Embedding Behavior with Smart Materials
Although the field of robot design goes back many years, the use and study of robotics in architecture is still relatively in its early stages. The...
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Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Formation Control for Multiple Underactuated Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Being a benchmark for autonomous oceanic inspections, long-distance and long-duration surveys, underwater vehicles formation has attracted...
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Current trends in the development of intelligent unmanned autonomous systems
Intelligent unmanned autonomous systems are some of the most important applications of artificial intelligence (AI). The development of such systems...
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Robots and Their Applications
This chapter starts with an overview and classification of robots: industrial robots, autonomous mobile robots, humanoid robots and educational...
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Belief Space Planning for an Underwater Floating Manipulator
Control of robots for underwater intervention and manipulation in real world applications is very challenging due high environmental uncertainties....
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Experiment on a dual-arm underwater robot using resolved acceleration control method
An underwater vehicle-manipulator system (UVMS) is an underwater robot equipped with one or more robotic arms. Various research studies have been...
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A review on the applications of neuro-fuzzy systems in business
This paper presents a review of the application of neuro-fuzzy systems (NFS) in business on the basis of the research articles issued in various...
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Reconfiguration of a Climbing Robot in an All-Terrain Hexapod Robot
This work presents the reconfiguration from a previous climbing robot to an all-terrain robot for applications in outdoor environments. The original...
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Educational Marine Robotics in SMTU
The concept, general provisions and some results of the research & education initiative of Saint-Petersburg State Marine Technical University (SMTU)...
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Can I Reach that? An Affordance Based Metric of Human-Sensor-Robot System Effectiveness
A person’s ability to perceive and act fluently in a remote environment through teleoperation of a robotic platform is clearly limited when compared...
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Formation control of multiple Euler-Lagrange systems via null-space-based behavioral control
This paper addresses the formation control problem of multiple Euler-Lagrange systems with model uncertainties in the environment containing...
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CBBR: enabling distributed shared memory-based coordination among mobile robots
Coordinating mobile robots are widely used in commercial and industrial settings to fulfill various tasks. However, to program the coordination among...
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Intervention Payload for Valve Turning with an AUV
This paper presents an intervention payload for an AUV working in a valve turning operation in free-floating control mode. The payload consists of a...
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Design and Pressure Experiments of a Deep-Sea Hydraulic Manipulator System
The design and realization of a 7-Function master-slave deep-sea hydraulic manipulator can be used in 7000 meters depth is proposed. Linear actuator,...