Academic Articles & Research Papers

Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world

This paper proposes a set of five ethical principles, together with seven high-level messages, as a basis for responsible robotics. The Principles of Robotics were drafted in 2010 and published online in 2011. Since then the principles have...

Shakey the Robot

From 1960 through 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI conducted research on a mobile robot system nicknamed "Shakey." Endowed with a limited ability to perceive and model its environment, Shakey could perform tasks that required...

Robot Programming by Demonstration

Effects of Robot Motion on Human-Robot Collaboration

Most motion in robotics is purely functional, planned to achieve the goal and avoid collisions. Such motion is great in isolation, but collaboration affords a human who is watching the motion and making inferences about it, trying to coordi...

Real-time obstacle avoidance of mobile robots using state-dependent Riccati equation approach

Abstract In this paper, state-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) method-based optimal control technique is applied to a robot. In recent years, issues associated with the robotics have become one of the developing fields of research. Accordi...

Triangular Geometrized Sampling Heuristics for Fast Optimal Motion Planning

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT)-based algorithms have become increasingly popular due to their lower computational complexity as compared with other path planning algorithms. The recently presented RRT * motion planning algorithm improv...

Science for robotics and robotics for science

has been launched to cover the most important advances in the development and application of robots, with interest in hardware and software as well as social interactions and implications....

Killer Robots

abstract The United States Army's Future Combat Systems Project, which aims to manufacture a ‘robot army’ to be ready for deployment by 2012, is only the latest and most dramatic example of military interest in the use of artificially intel...

Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

The field of modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems addresses the design, fabrication, motion planning, and control of autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology. Modular self-reconfigurable systems have the promise of maki...

Fast‐Tracker 2.0: Improving autonomy of aerial tracking with active vision and human location regression

Abstract In recent years, several progressive studies promote the development of aerial tracking. One of the representative studies is our previous work Fast‐Tracker which is applicable to various challenging tracking scenarios. However, it...

Remodeling of Endothelial Cell Nucleus Exposed to Three Different Mechanical Stimuli

Cell Nuclei play a critical role in controlling gene expression and replicating DNA, and is known to deform in association with cell shape changes in response to external forces. This study dealed with morphological analysis to quantitative...

Robot Vision

From the Publisher: This book presents a coherent approach to the fast-moving field of computer vision, using a consistent notation based on a detailed understanding of the image formation process. It covers even the most recent research a...

Robotics in Remote and Hostile Environments

In our continuing quest for knowledge, robots are powerful tools for accessing environments too dangerous or too remote for human exploration. Early systems functioned under close human supervision, effectively limited to executing preprogr...

Soft Robotics: New Perspectives for Robot Bodyware and Control

The remarkable advances of robotics in the last 50 years, which represent an incredible wealth of knowledge, are based on the fundamental assumption that robots are chains of rigid links. The use of soft materials in robotics, driven not on...

Persuasive Robotics: The influence of robot gender on human behavior

Persuasive Robotics is the study of persuasion as it applies to human-robot interaction (HRI). Persuasion can be generally defined as an attempt to change another's beliefs or behavior. The act of influencing others is fundamental to nearly...

Design and Implementation of a Bionic Marine Iguana Robot for Military Micro-Sensor Deployment

Underwater sensor deployment in military applications requires high precision, yet existing robotic solutions often lack the maneuverability and adaptability required for complex aquatic environments. To address this gap, this study propose...

Catheter pose-dependent virtual angioscopy images for endovascular aortic repair: validation with a video graphics array (VGA) camera

Previous research reported catheter pose-dependent virtual angioscopy images for endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) (phantom studies) without any validation with video images. The goal of our study focused on conducting this validation using...

Expansion and contraction of resource allocation in sensory bottlenecks

Topographic sensory representations often do not scale proportionally to the size of their input regions, with some expanded and others contracted. In vision, the foveal representation is magnified cortically, as are the fingertips in touch...

Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities

The proliferation of soft robotics research worldwide has brought substantial achievements in terms of principles, models, technologies, techniques, and prototypes of soft robots. Such achievements are reviewed here in terms of the abilitie...

Probabilistic robotics

Planning and navigation algorithms exploit statistics gleaned from uncertain, imperfect real-world environments to guide robots toward their goals and around obstacles....