Progress and prospects of the human–robot collaboration

A Ajoudani, AM Zanchettin, S Ivaldi, A Albu-Schäffer… - Autonomous …, 2018 - Springer
Recent technological advances in hardware design of the robotic platforms enabled the
implementation of various control modalities for improved interactions with humans and …

Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey

M Saveriano, FJ Abu-Dakka… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Biological systems, including human beings, have the innate ability to perform complex
tasks in a versatile and agile manner. Researchers in sensorimotor control have aimed to …

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

J Delmerico, S Mintchev, A Giusti… - Journal of Field …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

The MIT humanoid robot: Design, motion planning, and control for acrobatic behaviors

M Chignoli, D Kim, E Stanger-Jones… - 2020 IEEE-RAS 20th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Demonstrating acrobatic behavior of a humanoid robot such as flips and spinning jumps
requires systematic approaches across hardware design, motion planning, and control. In …

Anymal-toward legged robots for harsh environments

M Hutter, C Gehring, A Lauber, F Gunther… - Advanced …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper provides a system overview about ANYmal, a quadrupedal robot developed for
operation in harsh environments. The 30 kg, 0.5 m tall robotic dog was built in a modular …

Affordancenet: An end-to-end deep learning approach for object affordance detection

TT Do, A Nguyen, I Reid - 2018 IEEE international conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose AffordanceNet, a new deep learning approach to simultaneously detect multiple
objects and their affordances from RGB images. Our AffordanceNet has two branches: an …

Neural fuzzy approximation enhanced autonomous tracking control of the wheel-legged robot under uncertain physical interaction

J Li, J Wang, H Peng, L Zhang, Y Hu, H Su - Neurocomputing, 2020 - Elsevier
The accuracy of trajectory tracking and stable operation with heavy load are the main
challenges of parallel mechanism for wheel-legged robots, especially in complex road …

Advances in real‐world applications for legged robots

CD Bellicoso, M Bjelonic, L Wellhausen… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides insight into the application of the quadrupedal robot ANYmal in outdoor
missions of industrial inspection (autonomous robot for gas and oil sites [ARGOS] challenge) …

Robot adaptation to human physical fatigue in human–robot co-manipulation

L Peternel, N Tsagarakis, D Caldwell, A Ajoudani - Autonomous Robots, 2018 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a novel method for human–robot collaboration, where the robot
physical behaviour is adapted online to the human motor fatigue. The robot starts as a …

Detecting object affordances with convolutional neural networks

A Nguyen, D Kanoulas, DG Caldwell… - 2016 IEEE/RSJ …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel and real-time method to detect object affordances from RGB-D images.
Our method trains a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to learn deep features from …