In automated production processes grasping devices and methods play a crucial role in the
handling of many parts, components and products. This keynote paper starts with a …

Flexible medical robots can improve surgical procedures by decreasing invasiveness and
increasing accessibility within the body. Using preoperative images, these robots can be …

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgical systems enable procedures with reduced pain,
recovery time, and scarring compared to traditional surgery. While these improvements …

The fourth industrial revolution aims to transform production systems. In this work, Logical
Time which is a control principle for distributed systems is transferred to material handling …

In this paper, a prototype of the SCAlable ModuLar (SCALA) multiagent robotic system is
developed and implemented. This system for automation in large spaces relies on mobile …

A support structure for flexible displays such as OLED or flexible LEDs was developed using
the flexible omnidirectional driving gear mechanism. It is a gear mechanism having two …

Current industrial fabrication and automation systems are faced with the challenge of
obtaining great accuracy and fine manipulation over a large workspace. In this article …

We have been studying an omnidirectional driving gear mechanism that can generate
thrusting force in an arbitrary direction on one surface, which may be flat or curved. This …

A differential screw drive mechanism mimics Gaudi architecture is proposed in this paper.
The differential screw drive mechanism is applied to industrial robots such as parallel robot …

Research and development efforts into small upper limb rehabilitation robots for home-
based rehabilitation have been made in order to reduce the patient burden associated with …