Academic Articles & Research Papers

"Cute Companion" or "Awful Thing": Understanding Individual Differences in Attitudes to Social Robots as Pets.

Effectiveness of ultraviolet-C robots in isolation room disinfection: Impact of dose, distance, and direct exposure on environmental surface decontamination.

YOLO-Based Vision Perception and Automation for Agricultural Robots: A Comprehensive Survey of Algorithms, Applications, and Deployment.

MacroSwarm: A Field-based Compositional Framework for Swarm Programming

Swarm behaviour engineering is an area of research that seeks to investigate methods and techniques for coordinating computation and action within groups of simple agents to achieve complex global goals like pattern formation, collective mo...

Advances of medical nanorobots for future cancer treatments

Abstract Early detection and diagnosis of many cancers is very challenging. Late stage detection of a cancer always leads to high mortality rates. It is imperative to develop novel and more sensitive and effective diagnosis and therapeutic ...

Nanotechnology in dentistry

Nanotechnology is manipulating matter at nanometer level and the application of the same to medicine is called nanomedicine. Nanotechnology holds promise for advanced diagnostics, targeted drug delivery, and biosensors. In the long-term, me...

Disturbance Compensation Model Predictive Control for Free‑Floating Space Robots

Free-floating space robots （FFSRs） have emerged as critical unmanned platforms for long-term in-orbit services thanks to their high mobility and extended operational lifespan. However， external disturbances caused by dynamic space environme...

Graph Theory-Based Approach to Accomplish Complete Coverage Path Planning Tasks for Reconfigurable Robots

Extensive studies regarding complete coverage problems have been conducted, but a few tackle scenarios where the mobile robot is equipped with reconfigurable modules. The reconfigurability of these robots creates opportunities to develop ne...

Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple Cams

The inchworm in-pipe robot has the advantages of stable support, low walking resistance, and high flexibility. However, the gait motion of in-pipe robots relies on the precise coordination of three motors, which greatly increases the comple...

An Improved Design of the MultiCal On-Site Calibration Device for Industrial Robots

MultiCal is an affordable, high-precision measuring device designed for the on-site calibration of industrial robots. Its design features a long measuring rod with a spherical tip that is attached to the robot. By restricting the rod’s tip ...

My Caregiver the Cobot: Comparing Visualization Techniques to Effectively Communicate Cobot Perception to People with Physical Impairments

Nowadays, robots are found in a growing number of areas where they collaborate closely with humans. Enabled by lightweight materials and safety sensors, these cobots are gaining increasing popularity in domestic care, where they support peo...

Health technology innovations

The global pandemic has drastically impacted older adults in numerous ways (e.g., loneliness; age discrimination; mental and physical health; limited access to traditional health care).On the other hand, it may have accelerated the general ...

Decentralized Cooperative Localization Approach for Autonomous Multirobot Systems

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 ...

Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence

Imagine attending a lecture at the turn of the twentieth century in which Orville Wright speculates about the future of transportation, or one in which Alexander Graham Bell envisages satellite communications and global data banks. Mind Chi...

Cellular Robotics and Micro Robotic Systems

Part 1 Decentralized robotic system. Part 2 Cellular robotics: concept of cellular robotics optimal structure determination analysis of communication amount knowledge allocation network organization automatic docking mechanism future work. ...

Robotics and Control

As equipment and systems become more complex and sophisticated, the problems of operation and control by humans have become more difficult. Modern industrial processes and production techniques often require continuous vigilance of machine ...

Toward sociable robots

Legged Robots That Balance

This book, by a leading authority on legged locomotion, presents exciting engineering and science, along with fascinating implications for theories of human motor control. It lays fundamental groundwork in legged locomotion, one of the leas...

Functional Fibers and Fabrics for Soft Robotics, Wearables, and Human–Robot Interface

Soft robotics inspired by the movement of living organisms, with excellent adaptability and accuracy for accomplishing tasks, are highly desirable for efficient operations and safe interactions with human. With the emerging wearable electro...

Cultural Robotics: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture

In this paper, we have investigated the concept of “Cultural Robotics” with regard to the evolution of social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture, the potential development of a culture between human...