This paper introduces a general formulation of relational behaviours for cooperative real robots and an example of its implementation using the pass between soccer robots of the Middle-Sized League of RoboCup. The formulation is based on the Joint Commitment Theory and the pass implementation is supported by past work on soccer robots navigation. Results of experiments with real robots under co...

a general robotic mechanism was presented for in-pipe inspection oflevel pipes with varied diameter or curved pipelines. the robot employed three legs comprised of parallelogram linkages mechanism which enables adapting to various elbow joints in the piping systems. the curvatures in pipeline are the most important constraints in front of the robot through navigation process. to study the adapt...

As robots become more involved in assisting us in large and hazardous operations, such as search and rescue, we can anticipate that diverse robots will come together with the need to coordinate their efforts. These robots will come from different organizations, creating a heterogeneous team, varying in shape, size, and functionality. How can diverse robots forming such an impromptu team collabo...

The central problem of designing intelligent robot systems which learn by demonstrations of desired behaviour has been largely studied within the field of robotics. Numerous architectures for action recognition and prediction of intent of a single teacher have been proposed. However, little work has been done addressing how a group of robots can learn by simultaneous demonstrations of multiple ...

Recently, focus has shifted to more human-friendly robots, especially in the field of service or rehabilitation robotics, where research aims at bringing robots into increasingly unstructured environments. Here, humans still outperform robots in almost every aspect. One way towards this goal is to mimic more and more of the mechanisms of the human musculoskeletal system. These so called musculo...

For the autonomous navigation of the robots in unknown environments, generation of environmental maps and 3D scene reconstruction play a significant role. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) helps the robots to perceive, plan and navigate autonomously whereas scene reconstruction helps the human supervisors to understand the scene and act accordingly during joint activities with the ro...

This paper presents an experimental evaluation of joint torque control in a flexible robot using model predictive approach. The elastic robots is challenging due to the underactuated nature connected link and motor dynamics. A typical solution formulate controller cascaded way with outer loop for nonlinear side dynamics combination inner torque. In this utilizes design order take actuator const...

Robots have been successfully used in commercial industry and have enabled humans to perform tasks which are repetitive, dangerous and requiring extreme force. Their role has evolved and now includes many aspects of surgery to improve safety and precision. Orthopaedic surgery is largely performed on bones which are rigid immobile structures which can easily be performed by robots with great pre...