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A novel sensor-based assessment of lower limb spasticity in children with cerebral palsy

Seoyoung Choi, Yong Beom Shin, Soo-Yeon Kim, Jonghyun Kim • Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (2018)

Abstract Background To provide effective interventions for spasticity, accurate and reliable spasticity assessment is essential. For the assessment, the Modified Tardieu Scale (MTS) has been widely used owing to its simplicity and convenien...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12984-018-0388-5

Design, analysis, and experimental research on installation robot for hanging column

Xiaoqiang Wang, Xijing Zhu, Xiang Li, Jingyu Yang • Scientific Reports (2026)

Abstract To address the challenges of labor-intensive operations, high safety risks, and low operational efficiency in the installation of hanging columns within tunnels, we propose a robotics-based mechanized and automated solution. First,...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-54684-w

Decentralized Cooperative Localization Approach for Autonomous Multirobot Systems

Thumeera R. Wanasinghe, George K. I. Mann, Raymond G. Gosine • Journal of Robotics (2016)

This study proposes the use of a split covariance intersection algorithm (Split-CI) for decentralized multirobot cooperative localization. In the proposed method, each robot maintains a local cubature Kalman filter to estimate its own pose ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2016/2560573

Foundations of Robotics

Tsuneo Yoshikawa • The MIT Press eBooks (1990)

Foundations of Robotics presents the fundamental concepts and methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of robot manipulators. It explains the physical meaning of the concepts and equations used, and it provides, in an intuitively...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3074.001.0001

Efficient Edge-Based Image Interpolation Method Using Neighboring Slope Information

Sajid Khan, Dong-Ho Lee, Muhammad Asif Khan, Abdul Rehman Gilal et al. • IEEE Access (2019)

This paper presents an image interpolation method that provides superior performance with low complexity. Applying a simple linear method achieves time-efficient interpolation, but often produces artifacts; however, applying other complex m...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2942004

Service Robots and Robotics

Marco Ceccarelli • IGI Global eBooks (2011)

Service robots serve a wide range of people in residential, commercial, industrial, military, and many more applied fields. Service Robots and Robotics: Design and Application offers the latest research within the field, combining a mixture...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0291-5

Data-Driven Clustering Analysis for Representative Electric Vehicle Charging Profile in South Korea

Kangsan Kim, Geumbee Kim, Jiwon Yoo, Jungeun Heo et al. • Sensors (2024)

As the penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, an understanding of EV operation characteristics becomes crucial in various aspects, e.g., grid stability and battery degradation. This can be achieved through analyzing large amounts...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s24216800

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

Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Rostami, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Jin Wang, Hye-jin Kim • EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (2018)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13640-018-0319-1

Triangular Geometrized Sampling Heuristics for Fast Optimal Motion Planning

Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Saba Mumtaz, Yasar Ayaz, Osman Hasan et al. • International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (2015)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5772/59763

Robot Rights

David J. Gunkel • The MIT Press eBooks (2018)

A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots. We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11444.001.0001

Configuration Design and Dynamic Characteristics Analysis for Space Membrane Mechanism Based on Deployable Booms

Yuzhen Tang, Hongwei Guo, Wenyao Zhang, Zhiyi Wang et al. • Aerospace (2023)

To meet the requirements of deployable structures in aerospace engineering with light weight and high stiffness, this paper proposes the triangular space membrane deployable mechanism based on deployable booms, then conducts dynamic analysi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/aerospace10030239

Boosting precision crop protection towards agriculture 5.0 via machine learning and emerging technologies: A contextual review

Gustavo A. Mesías-Ruiz, Gustavo A. Mesías-Ruiz, María Pérez-Ortiz, José Dorado et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2023)

Crop protection is a key activity for the sustainability and feasibility of agriculture in a current context of climate change, which is causing the destabilization of agricultural practices and an increase in the incidence of current or in...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1143326

Mixed reality for robotics

Wolfgang Hönig, Christina Milanes, Lisa Scaria, Thai Phan et al. • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2015)

Mixed Reality can be a valuable tool for research and development in robotics. In this work, we refine the definition of Mixed Reality to accommodate seamless interaction between physical and virtual objects in any number of physical or vir...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.2015.7354138

Probabilistic robotics

Sebastian Thrun • Communications of the ACM (2002)

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

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/504729.504754

Cascaded Dual-Observer-Based Decoupled Estimation of Mass and Track Gradient for Permanent-Magnet-Driven Electric Monorail Cranes

Qijing Qin, Ziming Kou, Shaokai Kou, Guijun Gao et al. • Actuators (2026)

Precise data regarding the overall mass of the machinery and the gradient of the track are crucial for optimizing the control of monorail cranes and enhancing energy efficiency. Within the context of electric monorail cranes (EMCs), accurat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/act15090479

Evolutionary Robotics

Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano • The MIT Press eBooks (2000)

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their ow...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2889.001.0001