Despite the relatively young age of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) as a field, there is a large volume of research on advances in robot hardware, software and behavior. The goal of this article is to ...survey trends in social robot design, to provide an evidence-based approach and guidelines that can inform future social robot development. To this end, this article systematically reviews the evolution of social robots with a focus on their applications, technical features and design. In total 9920 articles from ACM Digital Library (n=4223) and IEEE Explore (n=5697) were reviewed. In order to make this review as inclusive as possible, a broad definition of social robots was used to make decisions about inclusion/exclusion of a given social robot during the review process. As a result, a total of 344 social robots were examined in the review with features being embodiment, mobility, total number of degrees of freedom, existence of a manipulator, size, weight, shell build, applications, target user group, commercial availability, social software capabilities, sensors, interaction modalities, face, software extension capability and initial release year. This resulted in a rich dataset with detailed information about the social robots used in the HRI field. We also provide design guidelines for social robots to inform future research. Findings of this review may help both researchers & practitioners to select, and/or design, the best social robot for their particular experiment or application scenario.
•Analyzed over 9000 research papers and examined 344 social robots from literature in great detail.•Created a dataset of the aforementioned social robots and used the dataset to guide our analysis.•Provided detailed design guidelines for social robots to inform future research.•This paper helps researchers and professionals in their robot selection or design process.
Written by two of Europe's leading robotics experts, this book provides the tools for a unified approach to the modelling of robotic manipulators, whatever their mechanical structure. No other ...publication covers the three fundamental issues of robotics: modelling, identification and control. It covers the development of various mathematical models required for the control and simulation of robots.
· World class authority· Unique range of coverage not available in any other book· Provides a complete course on robotic control at an undergraduate and graduate level
Modern robotic technologies have enabled robots to operate in a variety of unstructured and dynamically-changing environments, in addition to traditional structured environments. Robots have, thus, ...become an important element in our everyday lives. One key approach to develop such intelligent and autonomous robots is to draw inspiration from biological systems. Biological structure, mechanisms, and underlying principles have the potential to provide new ideas to support the improvement of conventional robotic designs and control. Such biological principles usually originate from animal or even plant models, for robots, which can sense, think, walk, swim, crawl, jump or even fly. Thus, it is believed that these bio-inspired methods are becoming increasingly important in the face of complex applications. Bio-inspired robotics is leading to the study of innovative structures and computing with sensory–motor coordination and learning to achieve intelligence, flexibility, stability, and adaptation for emergent robotic applications, such as manipulation, learning, and control. This Special Issue invites original papers of innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, and novel applications and business models relevant to the selected topics of ``Bio-Inspired Robotics''. Bio-Inspired Robotics is a broad topic and an ongoing expanding field. This Special Issue collates 30 papers that address some of the important challenges and opportunities in this broad and expanding field.
Impact of materials on performance of Vine Robot Borkar, Archit; Bene, Shubham; Gonal, Mahesha ...
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Vine Robots are soft continuum robots designed with low-cost fabrication and for the navigation of difficult environments. Due to their movement patterns resembling those of natural vines, ...these robots also known as “everting vine robots” grow by pressure-driven eversion. This paper presents the impact of different materials on the performance of Vine Robot. Three of the most easily accessible materials namely Transparent LDPE (125 Microns), Black LDPE (150 Microns) and Tarpaulin HDPE (250 Microns) were acquired and utilized in fabricating the body of Vine Robot. Under the application of these materials, difference in various properties of the robot were studied. By systematic study, the suitability of one material over the other was determined in specific environmental scenarios.
We have extended the task-space multiobjective controllers that write as quadratic programs (QPs) to handle multirobot systems as a single centralized control. The idea is to assemble all the ..."robots" models and their interaction task constraints into a single QP formulation. By multirobot, we mean that whatever entities a given robot will interact with (solid or articulated systems, actuated, partially or not at all, fixed-base or floating-base), we model them as clusters of robots and the controller computes the state of each cluster as an overall system and their interaction forces in a physically consistent way. By doing this, the tasks specification simplifies substantially. At the heart of the interactions between the systems are the contact forces; methodologies are provided to achieve reliable force tracking by our multirobot QP controller. The approach is assessed by a large panel of experiments on real complex robotic platforms (full-size humanoid, dexterous robotic hand, fixed-base anthropomorphic arm) performing whole-body manipulations, dexterous manipulations, and robot-robot comanipulations of rigid floating objects and articulated mechanisms, such as doors, drawers, boxes, or even smaller mechanisms like a spring-loaded click pen.
Military robots and other, potentially autonomous robotic systems such as unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) could soon be introduced to the battlefield. Look ...further into the future and we may see autonomous micro- and nanorobots armed and deployed in swarms of thousands or even millions. This growing automation of warfare may come to represent a major discontinuity in the history of warfare: humans will first be removed from the battlefield and may one day even be largely excluded from the decision cycle in future high-tech and high-speed robotic warfare. Although the current technological issues will no doubt be overcome, the greatest obstacles to automated weapons on the battlefield are likely to be legal and ethical concerns. Armin Krishnan explores the technological, legal and ethical issues connected to combat robotics, examining both the opportunities and limitations of autonomous weapons. He also proposes solutions to the future regulation of military robotics through international law.
Armin Krishnan is at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA
This book introduces an unified function approximation approach to the control of uncertain robot manipulators containing general uncertainties. It works for free space tracking control as well as ...compliant motion control. It is applicable to the rigid robot and the flexible joint robot. Even with actuator dynamics, the unified approach is still feasible. All these features make the book stand out from other existing publications.Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Introduction (105 KB)Contents: Dynamic Equations for Robot ManipulatorsAdaptive Control of Rigid RobotsAdaptive Impedance Control of Rigid RobotsAdaptive Control of Flexible Joint RobotsAdaptive Impedance Control of Flexible Joint RobotsReadership: Researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the field of robot control.
