Although the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) has enhanced the productivity of robotic systems in conjunction with the Internet of Things (IoT), it does not inherently support seamless human-robot collaboration. This paper presents HuBotVerse, a unified framework designed to foster the evolution of the Internet of Human and Intelligent Robotic Things (IoHIRT). HuBotVerse is … [Read more...] about HuBotVerse: Toward Internet of Human and Intelligent Robotic Things With a Digital Twin-Based Mixed Reality Framework
Robot sensing systems
Towards Fully Integrated Autonomous Excavation: Autonomous Excavator for Precise Earth Cutting and Onboard Landscape Inspection
Autonomous excavator systems can alleviate the issues caused by the shortage of skilled labor forces and increasing labor costs. For autonomous excavation, real-time landscape estimation, excavation path generation, control, and precise landscape inspection are all essential. In this article, we propose and experimentally validate an integrated autonomous excavator system … [Read more...] about Towards Fully Integrated Autonomous Excavation: Autonomous Excavator for Precise Earth Cutting and Onboard Landscape Inspection
Large-Scale Vine Robots for Industrial Inspection: Developing a New Framework to Overcome Limitations With Existing Inspection Methods
Industrial facilities such as chemical factories, gas terminals, and power plants can contain kilometers of piping that require meticulous inspection for leaks and defects prior to operation. This is a costly and time-consuming process that sometimes requires dismantling sections of pipe. While current internal inspection devices such as borescopes, “pipe inspection gadgets,” … [Read more...] about Large-Scale Vine Robots for Industrial Inspection: Developing a New Framework to Overcome Limitations With Existing Inspection Methods
Door-to-Door Parcel Delivery From Supply Point to User’s Home With Heterogeneous Robot Team: The euROBIN First-Year Robotics Hackathon
Logistics and service operations involving parcel preparation, delivery, and unpacking from a supply point to a user’s home could be carried out completely by robots in the near future, taking advantage of the capabilities of the different robot morphologies for the logistics, outdoor, and domestic environments. The use of robots for parcel delivery can contribute to the goals … [Read more...] about Door-to-Door Parcel Delivery From Supply Point to User’s Home With Heterogeneous Robot Team: The euROBIN First-Year Robotics Hackathon
Curriculum-Based Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping: A Reference-Free Design
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising solution to mastering explosive and versatile quadrupedal jumping skills. However, current DRL-based frameworks usually rely on pre-existing reference trajectories obtained by capturing animal motions or transferring experience from existing controllers. This work aims to prove that learning dynamic jumping is … [Read more...] about Curriculum-Based Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping: A Reference-Free Design
