The logistics market has been impacted by increase of e-commerce, mass customization,
omni-channel distribution, and just-in-time philosophy. In order to attend to this dynamic …

The application of robotics in construction is hindered by the site environment, which is
unstructured and subject to change. At the same time, however, buildings and …

Industrial collaborative robotics is promising for manufacturing activities where the presence
of a robot alongside a human operator can improve operator's working conditions, flexibility …

作为机器人技能学习中的一个重要分支, 模仿学习近年来在机器人系统中得到了广泛的应用.
模仿学习能够将人类的技能以一种相对直接的方式迁移到机器人系统中, 其思路是先从少量示教 …

Sustainable production aims at creating products from processes that minimize
environmental impact, energy consumption and natural resources. Customers and markets …

We propose a safety control approach based on the online optimal scaling of the size of
bounding volumes used as dynamic safety zones for collaborative robotics. Intersection tests …

This letter addresses the challenge of determining the optimal design of a customizable
robot for a given task. We present a motion planner that not only prescribes a path, but also …

The optical motion capture (MoCap) sensor provides an effective way to capture human
motions and transform them into valuable data that can be applied to certain tasks, eg robot …

We propose a unified approach for automatically generating multiple robot-model
descriptions for modular robot manipulators. Modular robots need models for kinematics and …

Collaborative artificial intelligence systems (CAISs) aim to work with humans in a shared
space to achieve a common goal, but this can pose hazards that could harm human beings …