Modelling and Control of a Reconfigurable Robot for Achieving Reconfiguration and Locomotion with Different Shapes [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Area coverage is a crucial factor for a robot intended for applications such as floor cleaning, disinfection, and inspection. Robots with fixed shapes could not realize an adequate level of area coverage performance.
S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon +5 more
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Deep Learning Based Pavement Inspection Using Self-Reconfigurable Robot. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2021 The pavement inspection task, which mainly includes crack and garbage detection, is essential and carried out frequently. The human-based or dedicated system approach for inspection can be easily carried out by integrating with the pavement sweeping ...
Ramalingam B +7 more
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sTetro-Deep Learning Powered Staircase Cleaning and Maintenance Reconfigurable Robot. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2021 Staircase cleaning is a crucial and time-consuming task for maintenance of multistory apartments and commercial buildings. There are many commercially available autonomous cleaning robots in the market for building maintenance, but few of them are ...
Ramalingam B +8 more
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Self-reconfigurable robot vision pipeline for safer adaptation to varying pavements width and surface conditions [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 This work presents the vision pipeline for our in-house developed autonomous reconfigurable pavement sweeping robot named Panthera. As the goal of Panthera is to be an autonomous self-reconfigurable robot, it has to understand the type of pavement it is ...
Lim Yi +5 more
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Modified A-Star Algorithm for Efficient Coverage Path Planning in Tetris Inspired Self-Reconfigurable Robot with Integrated Laser Sensor. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2018 Advancing an efficient coverage path planning in robots set up for application such as cleaning, painting and mining are becoming more crucial. Such drive in the coverage path planning field proposes numerous techniques over the past few decades. However,
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A framework for reconfigurable production line changeover task planning based on large language model [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAddressing the issues of manual intervention, low efficiency, and high error rates in the changeover operations of reconfigurable production lines, this paper proposes an automatic changeover task planning framework for reconfigurable production lines ...
Jinliang Hou, Li Yan, Hua Qiang
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A Modular Reconfigurable Robot for Future Autonomous Extraterrestrial Missions
IEEE Access, 2021 This study proposes a heterogeneous modular reconfigurable robot called SABER (short for Step, Assembler, and Bridge Explorer Robot) that is suitable for future autonomous extraterrestrial missions.
Alexey M. Romanov +2 more
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Miniature Modular Reconfigurable Underwater Robot Based on Synthetic Jet
Advanced ScienceModular reconfigurable robots exhibit prominent advantages in the reconnaissance and exploration tasks within unstructured environments for their characteristics of high adaptability and high robustness.
Dehong Wang +7 more
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MIRRAX: A Reconfigurable Robot for Limited Access Environments [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2022 The development of mobile robot platforms for inspection has gained traction in recent years. However, conventional mobile robots are unable to address the challenge of operating in extreme environments where the robot is required to traverse narrow gaps
Wei Cheah +6 more
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Module Design of Self-reconfigurable Modular Robot: A Survey
Journal of Harbin University of Science and Technology, 2021 Self-reconfigurable modular robot is a robot assembled through one or more modules and can be reconstI11cted into another configuration according to the changes of working environment.
DAI Ye +4 more
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