Despite the rapid advances in autonomous guidance and navigation techniques for
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, there are still many challenges in finding an …

Recently, research on hybrid mobile robots has been attracting considerable interest due to
the ability of these systems to perform service tasks in heterogeneous scenarios and …

In this paper, we develop a novel path-constrained and collision-free optimal trajectory
planning algorithm for robot manipulators in the presence of obstacles for the following …

Humanoid robots are complex, dynamic systems. Any humanoid robotic application starts
with determining a sequence of optimal paths to perform a given task in a known or …

In robotics and automated manufacturing, motion functions for parts of machines need to be
designed. Many proposals for the shape of such functions can be found in the literature …

In this paper we tackle the problem of visually predicting surface friction for environments
with diverse surfaces, and integrating this knowledge into biped robot locomotion planning …

Locomotion over different terrain types, whether flat or uneven, is very important for a wide
range of service operations in robotics. Potential applications range from surveillance …

Abstract The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a framework for building robust software for
complex robot systems in several domains. The Navigation Stack stands out among the …

Compared to typical drivers of human-driven vehicles, autonomous vehicles can maximize
the use of vehicle performance by utilizing a full road width without tracking the center of the …

This paper addresses the time-optimal trajectory planning for autonomous underwater
vehicles. A detailed mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model is presented …