There are many examples of cases where access to improved models of human behavior and cognition has allowed the creation of robots that can better interact with humans, and not least in road vehicle automation, this is a rapidly growing area of research. Human–robot interaction (HRI) therefore provides an important applied setting for human behavior modeling—but given the vast … [Read more...] about Models of Human Behavior for Human–Robot Interaction and Automated Driving: How Accurate Do the Models of Human Behavior Need to Be?
Robots
Blockchain-Based Smart Contract and Edge AI Applied in a Multirobot System: An Approach
Mining exploration is a common use case in Industry 4.0, which requires robots to work collaboratively to achieve desired goals. In this context, creating and orchestrating software for robotics is often a difficult task. For more about this article see link below. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10054175 For the open access PDF link of this article please … [Read more...] about Blockchain-Based Smart Contract and Edge AI Applied in a Multirobot System: An Approach
Finite Element Analysis-Based Soft Robotic Modeling: Simulating a Soft Actuator in SOFA
Soft robotics modeling is a research topic that is evolving fast. Many techniques are present in literature, but most of them require analytical models with a lot of equations that are time consuming, hard to resolve, and not so easy to handle. For this reason, the help of a soft mechanics simulator is essential in this field. This article presents a tutorial on how to build a … [Read more...] about Finite Element Analysis-Based Soft Robotic Modeling: Simulating a Soft Actuator in SOFA
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
New Era in Cultural Heritage Preservation: Cooperative Aerial Autonomy for Fast Digitalization of Difficult-to-Access Interiors of Historical Monuments
Digital documentation of large interiors of historical buildings is an exhausting task as most of the areas of interest are beyond typical human reach. We advocate the use of fully autonomous teams of cooperating multirotor UAVs to speed up the documentation process by several orders of magnitude while allowing for a repeatable, accurate, and condition-independent solution … [Read more...] about New Era in Cultural Heritage Preservation: Cooperative Aerial Autonomy for Fast Digitalization of Difficult-to-Access Interiors of Historical Monuments