Recent advances in both anthropomorphic robots and bimanual industrial manipulators had
led to an increased interest in the specific problems pertaining to dual arm manipulation. For …

A bstract The omnidirectional drive is a popular challenging trend in today's mobile robotics
where different areas such as swarm, humanoid, legged, train-based, underwater, air flying …

We describe CST, an online algorithm for constructing skill trees from demonstration
trajectories. CST segments a demonstration trajectory into a chain of component skills …

The state of the art in and the future of robotics are discussed. The potential paths to the long-
term vision of robots that work alongside people in homes and workplaces as useful …

“Hello, I'm the TERMINATOR, and I'll be your server today”. Diners might soon be feeling this
greeting, with Optimus Prime in the kitchen and Wall-E then sending your order to C-3PO. In …

The construction of feedback control laws for underactuated nonlinear robotic systems with
input saturation limits is crucial for dynamic robotic tasks such as walking, running, or flying …

The ballbot is a human-sized dynamically stable mobile robot that balances on a single ball.
Unlike statically stable mobile robots, the ballbot is tall and narrow with a high center of …

Unlike statically stable wheeled mobile robots, dynamically stable mobile robots can have
higher centers of gravity, smaller bases of support and can be tall and thin resembling the …

We describe a robot system that autonomously acquires skills through interaction with its
environment. The robot learns to sequence the execution of a set of innate controllers to …

Fully autonomous exploration and mobile manipulation in rough terrain are still beyond the
state of the art—robotics challenges and competitions are held to facilitate and benchmark …