Due to the recent technological progress, Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) has become a major field of research in both engineering and artistic realms, particularly so in the last decade. The mainstream interests are, however, extremely diverse: challenges are continuously shifting, the evolution of robot’ skills, aswell as the advances inmethods for understanding their environment radically impa...

  Omni directional mobile robots have been popularly employed in several applications especially in soccer player robots considered in Robocup competitions. However, Omni directional navigation system, Omni-vision system and solenoid kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. This situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensi...

<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">This paper presents the design concept behind a novel remote visual inspection robotic system for fighter jet aircraft wing fuel tank inspection. This work is part of larger research project which focuses on design, simulation, physical prototyping and experimental validation system. Whereas this specifically development ...

In this paper, we studied numerically both kinematic and dynamic models of a biologically inspired mammal-like octopod robot walking with a tetrapod gait. Three different nonlinear oscillators were used to drive the robot’s legs working as central pattern generators. In addition, also a new, relatively simple and efficient model was proposed and investigated. The introduced model of the gait ge...

After a short overview of the COLIBRI project, this paper considers cycle-averaged flight dynamics flapping-wing robot near hovering, taking advantage weak coupling between roll and pitch axes. The system is naturally unstable; it needs to be stabilized actively, which requires an attitude reconstruction. Due flapping wings, subject strong periodic noise at frequency its higher harmonics; resul...

Autonomous flight of flapping-wing robots is a major challenge for robot perception. Most the previous sense-and-avoid works have studied problem obstacle avoidance considering only static obstacles. This letter presents fully onboard dynamic scheme large-scale ornithopters using event cameras....

trajectories generally used to describe the space and time required to perform a desired motion task for a mobile robot or manipulator system. in this paper, we considered a cubic polynomial trajectory for the problem of moving a mobile robot from its initial position to a goal position in over a continuous set of time. along the path, the robot requires to observe a certain acceleration profil...

This paper focuses on parameter identification of a target tracker robot possessing flexible joints using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Since, belt and pulley mechanisms are known as flexible joints in robotic systems, their elastic behavior affecting a tracker robot is investigated in this work. First, dynamic equations governing the robot behavior are extracted taking into acco...