Abstract Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC) has a pivotal role in smart manufacturing for
strict requirements of human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. However, existing HRC …

Recently human–robot collaboration (HRC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for mass
personalization in manufacturing owing to the potential to fully exploit the strength of human …

Advancements in mechatronics, perception and computational methods allowed robotics to
focus on non-rigid part manipulation, which is characterized by high complexity due to the …

This work presents a novel approach for visual servoing of robotized aerospace
manufacturing cells, based on the combined use of a camera and a 2D-beam scanner and a …

Manufacturing systems are making a shift towards intelligent and automated detection
systems in order to save cost and time in different phases of the product lifecycle as well as …

In this paper, a high-speed multi-fingered reconfigurable gripper is presented. The aim is to
create a robotic end effector that is capable of handling parts of different geometries and …

Abstract Machine vision has been extensively studied during the last decades enabling the
implementation of vision systems in robotic applications usually involving dispersing of …

A machine vision system for the automatic classification process is developed under
different lighting environments, and has been applied to the operation of a robot arm with 6 …

This paper discusses the design and implementation of a high-speed electromechanical
robotic gripper for grasping and manipulation of objects. The novelty of the developed robot …

Soft robotics is an emerging domain focusing on integrating soft, flexible materials and
structures, often derived from biological organisms, in robotics. Unfortunately, soft …