Abstract: Flexible and adaptive tracked robots show the capacity to navigate in unstructured terrain, with a passive adaption of the track or a morphology change for terrain adaptation. Extending the concept to one in which the morphology can be actively changed has the potential to increase the capabilities of a locomoting robot while reducing the need for complex … [Read more...] about FLEXIV: Adaptive Locomotion via Morphological Changes in a Flexible Track Vehicle
Mobile robots
Museum Touring Through an Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robotic Assistant: Improving Learnability and Memory Retention
Abstract: While museums traditionally cater to visual perception, some are adopting novel approaches to aid visitors with impairments. In recent years, robot-based tour guides have become a popular museum attraction. Instead of traditional guides, special-purpose robots assist people and allow for more engaging multimodal touring. While promising, such robotics guides tend … [Read more...] about Museum Touring Through an Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robotic Assistant: Improving Learnability and Memory Retention
The Robotic Circulating Nurse: A World’s-First Prototype to Support Clinicians
Abstract: Mobile service robotics is a promising technology for assisting hospital workflows, thereby relieving clinical staff from cumbersome tasks and battling today’s ongoing problem of severe personnel shortages. To that end, we present the world’s first robotic circulating nurse (RCN), a novel mobile robotic assistance system, which aims to support clinicians during … [Read more...] about The Robotic Circulating Nurse: A World’s-First Prototype to Support Clinicians
Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial [Tutorial]
Localization is an essential capability for mobile robots, enabling them to build a comprehensive representation of their environment and interact with the environment effectively toward a goal. A rapidly growing field of research in this area is visual place recognition (VPR), which is the ability to recognize previously seen places in the world based solely on images. For … [Read more...] about Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial [Tutorial]
The ILIAD Safety Stack: Human-Aware Infrastructure-Free Navigation of Industrial Mobile Robots
Current intralogistics services require keeping up with e-commerce demands, reducing delivery times and waste, and increasing overall flexibility. As a consequence, the use of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and, more recently, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for logistics operations is steadily increasing. For more about this article see link … [Read more...] about The ILIAD Safety Stack: Human-Aware Infrastructure-Free Navigation of Industrial Mobile Robots
