In the last decades, omnidirectional mobile robot platforms have entered many areas of
industrial automation and daily life. While platforms with universal and Mecanum wheels are …

This paper presents a robotic team suited for bottom sediment sampling and retrieval in
mudflats, targeting environmental monitoring tasks. The robotic team encompasses a four …

In recent years, the demand on food product has been increasing. Paddy cultivation needs
new weed controlling methods, since paddy cultivation supplies major food demands, also …

This paper presents a robot navigation system capable of online self-reconfiguration
according to the needs imposed by the various contexts present in heterogeneous …

Compact omnidirectional undercarriages enable the design of highly manoeuvrable mobile
robots for narrow environments in industry, public spaces, and private households. This …

This paper presents a method for 3-D based obstacle detection on autonomous vehicles
navigating in vegetated environments. At its core three different methods processing the …

Autonomous robots are employed in several important tasks, for example, from health care
to military and defense applications involving operations in hazardous and inaccessible …

In this paper, we design and implement a mobile robot with variable structure for tip-over
prevention. The mobile robot is designed for the purpose of stable drive and work in outdoor …

Mobile robotics has received a lot of interest among the researchers in recent years,
particularly for applications in the remote areas. Six wheels multiterrain robot (SW-MTR) is a …

Traditional robotic platforms are usually rigid and vulnerable to impacts due to their delicate
electronic components. In this thesis, we introduce an approach to increase the survivability …