A few days after I returned from my Rotterdam trip attending the 40th anniversary of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated memories video popped up on my iPhone. The video is pretty good, highlighting nice memories of my trip with pictures of windmills and delicious food. … [Read more...] about Can Machines Teach?: Takeaways From ICRA@40 [From the Editor’s Desk]
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The RAS Women in Engineering Committee in Conversation With RAS President Aude Billard [President’s Message]
During the International Conference on Robotics and Automation of 2024 in Yokohama, Japan, Efi Psomopoulou of the University of Bristol and Georgia Chalvatzaki of the Technical University of Damrstadt, both members of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)–Women in Engineering (WiE) Committee, sat down with RAS President Aude Billard to discuss issues raised by the … [Read more...] about The RAS Women in Engineering Committee in Conversation With RAS President Aude Billard [President’s Message]
The Franka Emika Robot: A Standard Platform in Robotics Research [Survey]
Over the last decade, industrial robots have evolved from well-established position-controlled systems to collaborative and soft robots. In 2017 we introduced the tactile lightweight robot system Franka Emika Robot, characterized by advanced safety control, force sensing, joint torque and force control, hand-guiding performance, and the novel tactile programming paradigm DESK. … [Read more...] about The Franka Emika Robot: A Standard Platform in Robotics Research [Survey]
Manipulator Differential Kinematics: Part I: Kinematics, Velocity, and Applications [Tutorial]
Kinematics, derived from the Greek word for motion, is the branch of mechanics that studies the motion of a body, or a system of bodies, without considering mass or force. This two-part tutorial is about the kinematics of robot manipulators, and in that context, it is concerned with the relationship between the position of the robot’s joints and the pose of its end effector as … [Read more...] about Manipulator Differential Kinematics: Part I: Kinematics, Velocity, and Applications [Tutorial]
Manipulator Differential Kinematics: Part 2: Acceleration and Advanced Applications [Tutorial]
Kinematics, in the context of robotic manipulators, is concerned with the relationship between the position of the robot’s joints and the pose of its end effector as well as the relationships between various derivatives of those quantities. In this second part of our two-part tutorial, we focus on second-order differential kinematics and subsequent applications. These … [Read more...] about Manipulator Differential Kinematics: Part 2: Acceleration and Advanced Applications [Tutorial]
