Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems

The urban air mobility market is expected to grow constantly due to the increased interest in new forms of transportation. Managing aerial vehicles fleets, dependent on rising technologies such as artificial intelligence and automated ground ...

The present research focuses in the comparison of two social robot models running the same Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) applications targeting the context of music education for children aged 9-11, with the objective of underlying the design ...

This work proposes a Visual Predictive Control (VPC) scheme adapted to the autonomous navigation problem among static obstacles. To do so, it is necessary to cope with several issues which by now limit the use of VPC in this context. Among them, ...

Socially interactive robots are being introduced in daily life as common objects that facilitate people’s life. A wide range of possibilities are offered and the trends show a growing market. In this survey 40 commercial robots were analysed to ...

Electronic Toll Collection is the combination of multiple components, either technical or operational, organized to optimize system efficiency for specific requirements. Four main components constitute an ETC system: Automated Vehicle ...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is widely used to solve various optimization problems, such as robotics visual perception and intelligent control under uncertainties, due to its simple rules and easy implementation. However, the PSO has ...

Manipulators are widely used in various fields of industrial automation, and hydraulic manipulators have more extensive application in future by virtue of high power to weight ratio. However, compared with the traditional motor manipulators, the ...

Odometry calibration adjusts the kinematic parameters or directly the robot’s model to improve the wheeled odometry accuracy. The existent literature considers in the calibration procedure only one steering geometry (differential drive, Ackerman/...

A critical component in the public health response to pandemics is the ability to determine the spread of diseases via diagnostic testing kits. Currently, diagnostic testing kits, treatments, and vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic have been ...

The popularity of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV) to be used in civilian applications has increased in the last years. However, in most of these applications, a MAV is used to acquire aerial images and video of areas and structures of interest. ...

The expected value (EV) based optimization principle often used in engineering ignores risk-related human characteristics which are however important to human-robot interaction (HRI). The characteristics include risk-perception and risk-attitudes ...

Bionic fish have received widespread attention due to their high mobility, high concealment and high propulsion efficiency. Trajectory tracking and tracking accuracy are the main challenges in controlling the motion of bionic fish. To realize the ...

Monocular Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (VSLAM) systems are widely utilised for intelligent mobile robots to work in unknown environments. However, complex and varying illuminations challenge the accuracy and robustness of VSLAM ...

This paper presents a novel data-driven navigation system to navigate an Unmanned Vehicle (UV) in GPS-denied, feature-deficient environments such as tunnels, or mines. The method utilizes landmarks that vehicle can deploy and measure range from to ...

The autonomous navigation of garden mobile robot plays an important role in garden monitoring and maintenance, in which the extraction of navigation line is the key technology. Due to the complexity of garden environment, the current algorithms of ...

To learn grasp constraints from human demonstrations, we propose a method that combines data-driven grasp constraint learning and one-shot human demonstration of tasks. By presenting task constraints in a GMM-based gripper-independent form, the ...

The intervention of a human operator in tasks performed by aerial robots is relevant when the objectives require decisions that an online controller could not take adequately. In this regard, several path planning methods with haptic feedback have ...

UAVs have been widely used in many photography applications. Among photography tasks, covering an area to produce photogrammetry data is a prominent solution for commercial applications. The resources available to automate these processes, despite ...

Designs of robotic fishes are becoming more and more diversified, from totally rigid to soft, or rigid-soft coupling. Currently, most of the dynamic modeling approaches for robotic fishes have an assumption that the midline body curve follows a ...

This paper is devoted to solving autonomous navigation for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in unknown environments. To overcome the deficiency of the “first planning then tracking” motion control framework, a novel simultaneous planning and ...

Biomimetic robotic fish that absorbs inspiration from fish has the advantage of high mobility, high efficiency, and low noise. However, it is still challenging to make robotic fish adapt to surrounding aquatic environments autonomously. To achieve ...

The interaction between humans and collaborative robots in performing given tasks has aroused the interest of researchers and industry for the development of gesture recognition systems. Surface electromyography (sEMG) devices are recommended to ...