The regulatory endorsement of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and support pivotal shipping market players in recent years motivate investigation potential role that autonomous vessels play industry. As complexity scale envisioned applications increase, research works gradually transform focus from single-vessel systems to multi-vessel systems. Thus, applied industry are becoming a...

Many practical dextrous manipulation tasks involve large-scale motion of the grasped object while maintaining a stable grasp. To plan such tasks, one must control both the motion of the object and the contact locations, while also adhering to the workspace constraints typical of multingered hands. In this paper, we integrate the relevant theories of contact kinematics, nonholonomic motion plann...

The recognition of objects is a relevant ability in service robotics, especially in manipulation tasks. There are many different approaches to object recognition, but they have not been properly analyzed and compared by considering real conditions of manipulation tasks in domestic setups. The main goal of this paper is to analyze some popular object recognition methods and to compare their perf...