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From Vision Sensor to Actuators, Spike Based Robot Control through Address-Event-Representation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
One field of the neuroscience is the neuroinformatic whose aim is to develop auto-reconfigurable systems that mimic the human body and brain. In this paper we present a neuro-inspired spike based mobile robot.
Civit Balcells, Antón   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Overcoming Obstacles With a Reconfigurable Robot Using Reinforcement Learning

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
The reconfigurable robot RSTAR (Rising Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot) is a newly developed crawling robot that can reconfigure its shape and shift the location of its center of mass.
Liran Yehezkel, S. Berman, David Zarrouk
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multi-Objective Instantaneous Center of Rotation Optimization Using Sensors Feedback for Navigation in Self-Reconfigurable Pavement Sweeping Robot

open access: yesMathematics, 2022
Pavement in outdoor settings is an unstructured environment with sharp corners, varying widths, and pedestrian activity that poses navigation challenges while cleaning for autonomous systems. In this work, an approach towards navigating without collision
Lim Yi   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper, we introduce a design principle to develop novel soft modular robots based on tensegrity structures and inspired by the cytoskeleton of living cells.
A Burks   +12 more
core   +2 more sources

Hornbill: A Self-Evaluating Hydro-Blasting Reconfigurable Robot for Ship Hull Maintenance

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Maintenance of ship hull involves routine tasks during dry-docking that includes inspection, paint stripping, and re-painting. Among those, paint stripping is always seen as harmful for human operators and a time-consuming task.
V. Prabakaran   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Novel Nested Reconfigurable Approach for a Glass Façade Cleaning Robot

open access: yesInventions, 2017
The façade cleaning of high rise buildings is one of the hazardous tasks that is performed by human operators. Even after a significant advancement in construction technologies, several newfangled skyscrapers are still using the manual method for ...
Shunsuke Nansai   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correct-by-Construction Approach for Self-Evolvable Robots

open access: yes, 2017
The paper presents a new formal way of modeling and designing reconfigurable robots, in which case the robots are allowed to reconfigure not only structurally but also functionally.
Chen, Gang, Kong, Zhaodan
core   +1 more source

Analysis on Self-Morphing Process of Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2009
The self-reconfigurable modular robot consists of many identical modules. By connecting to/disconnecting from other modules, the whole structure of the robot can transform into arbitrary other configurations.
Yanqiong Fei, Yueliang Zhu, Ping Xia
doaj   +1 more source

hTetro-Infi: A Reconfigurable Floor Cleaning Robot With Infinite Morphologies

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
The development of floor cleaning robots is an emerging area in robotics. Maximizing the area coverage is a foremost mission for a floor cleaning robot.
S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Complete Coverage Path Planning for Tetriamond Tiling Robots

open access: yesSensors, 2020
Tiling robots with fixed morphology face major challenges in terms of covering the cleaning area and generating the optimal trajectory during navigation.
Anh Vu Le   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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