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An Augmented Discrete-Time Approach for Human-Robot Collaboration

Peidong Liang, Lianzheng Ge, Yihuan Liu, Lijun Zhao et al. • Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (2016)

Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is a key feature to distinguish the new generation of robots from conventional robots. Relevant HRC topics have been extensively investigated recently in academic institutes and companies to improve human and...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2016/9126056

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

Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, Matteo Cianchetti • Science Robotics (2016)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aah3690

Industrial robots and robotics

Edward Kafrissen, Mark Stephans (1984)

This book discusses the study of robotics. It provides information of hardware, software, applications and economics. Eleven chapters examine the following: Minicomputers, Microcomputers, and Microprocessors; The Servo-Control System; The A...

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The robotics primer

• Choice Reviews Online (2008)

The Robotics Primer offers a broadly accessible introduction to robotics for students at pre-university and university levels, robot hobbyists, and anyone interested in this burgeoning field. The text takes the reader from the most basic co...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-3222

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

The Effect of Robotics and Coding Education on Girls’ STEM Motivation, Attitude and Career Aspirations

Salih Gülen, İsmail Dönmez, Fatma Betül Şengönül, Miyase Aslantaş et al. • SAGE Open (2025)

STEM education aims to develop 21st-century skills, support economic growth and promote gender equality in STEM fields. It is known that gender stereotypes play a significant role in the formation of STEM identity. The most important factor...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/21582440251382631

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

Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation: A Robot for Wrist Rehabilitation

Hermano Igo Krebs, Bruce T. Volpe, Dustin Williams, James Celestino et al. • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2007)

In 1991, a novel robot, MIT-MANUS, was introduced to study the potential that robots might assist in and quantify the neuro-rehabilitation of motor function. MIT-MANUS proved an excellent tool for shoulder and elbow rehabilitation in stroke...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2007.903899 PMC: 2733849

Soft Robotics

George M. Whitesides • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2018)

This description of "soft robotics" is not intended to be a conventional review, in the sense of a comprehensive technical summary of a developing field. Rather, its objective is to describe soft robotics as a new field-one that offers oppo...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201800907

Robotics and Automation Handbook

• CRC Press eBooks (2018)

The History of Robotics, Wesley L. Stone Rigid-Body Kinematics, Gregorg S. Chirikjian Inverse Kinematics, Bill Goodwine Newton-Euler Dynamics of Robots, Mark L. Nagurka Lagrangian Dynamics, Milo?s ? Zefran and Francesco Bullo Kane's Method ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315220352

Robot Motion: Planning and Control

Michale Brady, John M. Hollerbach, T. Johnson, Matthew T. Mason et al. (1983)

From the Publisher: The present surge of interest in robotics can be expected to continue through the 1980s. Major research efforts are springing up throughout industry and in the universities. Senior and graduate level courses are being d...

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An inexact multiple-recourse hybrid-fuel management model with considering carbon reduction requirement for a biofuel-penetrated heating system

D.Z. Fu, T.J. Yang, Y.J. Pan, Y.M. Tong • Energy Reports (2023)

In China’s goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2060, the blending-biofuel-based heating technique is being used to reduce CO2 and air-pollutant emissions in existing district heating systems in northern China. This brings a series of new ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2023.03.081

A Novel Passive Implantable Differential Mechanism to Restore Individuated Finger Flexion during Grasping following Tendon Transfer Surgery: A Pilot Study

Suraj Chakravarthi Raja, Won Suk You, Kian Jalaleddini, Justin C. Casebier et al. • Applied Sciences (2023)

Tendon transfer surgery is often used to restore hand grasp function following high median-ulnar nerve palsy. This surgery typically reroutes and sutures the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis longus (ECRL) muscle to all four flexor digi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app13095804

Monolithic UV‐Laser Programming of Photothermally Meta‐Morphing SMA Structures: Dual‐Encoded Kirigami Mechanics and Photonic Absorbance

Hyunsoo Kim, Manmatha Mahato, Hunpyo Ju, Ryanda Enggar Anugrah Ardhi et al. • Advanced Science (2026)

ABSTRACT Photothermal shape memory alloys (SMAs) offer a promising pathway toward wireless soft robotic systems, yet their practical implementation remains limited by reliance on heterogeneous coatings and multistep processing to achieve su...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/advs.74930

Digital Analysis Methods in Business-Processes and Projects in Digital Twins at Investment-Construction Companies

A. I. Sukhorukov, E. A. Zakharova, E. V. Shvetsov • Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова (2024)

The article analyzes modeling of investment-construction company work from graph models to digital analogues. Such analysis is necessary in order to build economically grounded twin of the investment-construction company. The need to use ad...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21686/2413-2829-2024-6-153-162

A Two-Dimensional Sequential Packing Method for Lunar Regolith Particles Based on Random Polygons

Chunguang Zhang, Feng Sun, Ye Li, Haining Zhao et al. • Aerospace (2026)

To accurately characterize the effects of polydisperse particle sizes, multimineral composition, and angular morphology on the packing structure of lunar regolith, a two-dimensional sequential packing method based on random convex octagons ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/aerospace13070612

Human–Robot Interaction in Rescue Robotics

Robin Roberson Murphy • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C (Applications and Reviews) (2004)

Rescue robotics has been suggested by a recent DARPA/NSF study as an application domain for the research in human-robot integration (HRI). This paper provides a short tutorial on how robots are currently used in urban search and rescue (USA...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmcc.2004.826267