Urban transportation in the next few decades will shift worldwide toward electrification and
automation, with the final aim of increasing energy efficiency and safety for passengers …

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 …

This paper presents a framework for planning safe and efficient paths for a legged robot in
rough and unstructured terrain. The proposed approach allows to exploit the distinctive …

This work presents a machine vision system for the localization of strawberries and
environment perception in a strawberry-harvesting robot for use in table-top strawberry …

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 novel physics-based path planning architecture for autonomous
navigation of tracked vehicles in rough terrain conditions. Unlike conventional path planning …

We present a terrain traversability mapping and navigation system (TNS) for autonomous
excavator applications in an unstructured environment. We use an efficient approach to …

Automated agricultural machinery has advanced significantly in the previous ten years;
however, the ability of such robots to operate safely will be critical to their commercialization …

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

This paper aims at evaluating the capabilities to detect road traversability in urban and extra-
urban scenarios of support vector machine-based classifiers that use local descriptors …