This article describes RHP Friends, a social humanoid robot developed to enable assistive robotic deployments in human-coexisting environments. As a use case application, we present its potential use in nursing by extending its capabilities to operate devices and tools according to the task and by enabling remote assistance operations. To meet a wide variety of tasks and … [Read more...] about Humanoid Robot RHP Friends: Seamless Combination of Autonomous and Teleoperated Tasks in a Nursing Context
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RoboTwin: A Platform to Study Hydrodynamic Interactions in Schooling Fish
By living and moving in groups, fish can gain many benefits, such as heightened predator detection, greater hunting efficiency, more accurate environmental sensing, and energy saving. Although the benefits of hydrodynamic interactions in schooling fish have drawn growing interest in fields such as biology, physics, and engineering, and multiple hypotheses for how such benefits … [Read more...] about RoboTwin: A Platform to Study Hydrodynamic Interactions in Schooling Fish
Online Tuning of Control Parameters for Off-Road Mobile Robots
This article addresses the problem of online adaptation of control parameters, dedicated to a path tracking problem in off-road conditions. Two approaches are offered to modify the tuning gain of a previously developed adaptive and predictive control law. The first approach is a deterministic method based on dynamic equations of the system, allowing the adaptation of the … [Read more...] about Online Tuning of Control Parameters for Off-Road Mobile Robots
