Computer vision is essential to develop a social robotic system capable to interact with humans. It is responsible to extract and represent the information around the robot. Furthermore, a learning mechanism, to select correctly an action to be executed in the environment, pro-active mechanism, to engage in an interaction, and voice mechanism, are indispensable to develop a social robot. All th...

Highlights A robotic mushroom picking mechanism was developed, including positioning, picking, and stipe trimming. The end-effector designed based on a bending motion around the stipe-substrate joint. overall success rate of developed reached 91.4%. Acting time air pressure for suction cup were studied in bruise level tests. Abstract . Button (Agaricus bisporus) harvesting mainly relies costly ...

This paper presents a communication framework for integrating sensors in a robotic laser welding system. The framework was originally developed for the application of sensorguided robotic laser welding, but the principles are generic, making it useful in other application areas as well. To use the sensor measurements during the robot motion, a synchronisation mechanism is presented for an image...

EUROPA (External Use of Robotics for Payload Automation) is a robotic experiment formerly designed to fly on the International Space Station (ISS) and to perform a realistic end-to-end robotic technology demonstration in exposed environment. The overall scenario is depicted in Figure 1. The robotic workcell design includes: • the robotic arm, based on the existing ASI 7 dof SPIDER arm, used to ...