The demand for collaborative robots is growing in industrial environments due to their
versatility and low prices. Thus, more collaborative solutions are emerging for industrial …

Abstract Industry 4.0 is taking human-robot collaboration at the center of the production
environment. Collaborative robots enhance productivity and flexibility while reducing …

Physical human-robot collaboration is increasingly required in many contexts (such as
industrial and rehabilitation applications). The robot needs to interact with the human to …

Force control enables hands-on teaching and physical collaboration, with the potential to
improve ergonomics and flexibility of automation. Established methods for the design of …

The industry needs controllers that allow smooth and natural physical Human-Robot
Interaction (pHRI) to make production scenarios more flexible and user-friendly. Within this …

Large rigid-body automatic docking is a crucial but tough task in aerospace assembly.
Traditional large rigid-body spacecraft assembly is achieved manually, which is limited by …

Humans and robots working together have mutual benefits. The first is great at adaptation to
new situations and has very high intellectual capabilities, while robots are very effective in …

Robots equipped with the vision systems at the end-effector provide a powerful combination
in industrial contexts, allowing to execute a wide range of manufacturing tasks, such as …

Vision-based manipulation has been largely used in various robot applications. Normally, in
order to obtain the spatial information of the operated target, a carefully calibrated stereo …

This study proposes a hybrid visual servoing technique that is optimised to tackle the
shortcomings of classical 2D, 3D and hybrid visual servoing approaches. These …