Terrain detection systems have been developed for a large body of applications. For
instance, a bionic leg prosthesis would have to adapt its behavior as a function of the terrain …

Smart agricultural machinery is emerging as the future trend for field robots, and the fully
automatic robot has a great application prospect. However, it is a big challenge for robots to …

This paper describes a walking robot controller for negotiation of terrains with different
traction characteristics. The feedback is based on three perception systems. The purpose of …

In locomotion tasks like walking or stair ascending, leg joints produce mechanical energy
with task-specific kinematic and kinetic patterns. Consequently, locomotion assistive devices …

The navigation path recognition has been recognized as one of the most important subtasks
of intelligent agricultural equipment in orchard operations. However, there are still some …

Auto-exploration is a task for self-driving robots to explore unknown environments, which
becomes much complicated when they move on irregular outdoor terrains. To improve the …

Terrain traversability analysis is a challenging problem for mobile robots to adapt to complex
environments, including the detection of cluttered obstacles, potholes, or even slopes. With …

The ability to traverse uneven terrain is one of the key advantages of legged robots.
However, their effectiveness relies on selecting appropriate gait parameters, such as stride …

Vision-based systems for terrain detection are ubiquitous in mobile robotics, while such
systems recently emerged for locomotion assistance of disabled people. For instance …

Point clouds of 3D scenes are widely applied in guiding the visually impaired by precious
research. Many auxiliary systems for the visually impaired are integrated with RGB-D …