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Enhancing RGB-D SLAM Performances Considering Sensor Specifications for Indoor Localization

open access: yes, 2021
International audienceSeveral works have focused on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), which is a topic that has been studied for more than a decade to meet the needs of robots to navigate in an unknown environment.
El Bouazzaoui, Imad   +5 more
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Task‐Oriented Path Planning Towards Autonomous Sensor Network Deployment in Rainforest Canopies

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
An informative path planner for drone‐based deployment of wireless sensor networks in rainforest canopies is presented, addressing key challenges in large‐scale biodiversity monitoring. By integrating canopy surface detection with connectivity‐aware sampling under strict flight constraints, the approach enables efficient and reliable aerial sensor ...
Rita Santos Raminhos, Salua Hamaza
wiley   +1 more source

Spatio-thermal depth correction of RGB-D sensors based on Gaussian Processes in real-time

open access: yes, 2022
This RGB-D dataset is part is part of our publication Heindl, Christoph, et al. "Spatio-thermal depth correction of RGB-D sensors based on Gaussian processes in real-time." Tenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2017). Vol. 10696.
Christoph Heindl
core   +1 more source

Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard): An Aerial Robotic Swarm for Autonomous Detection and Entrapment of Rogue Multirotors

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard) is introduced as a four‐drone swarm that autonomously detects, tracks, and safely captures rogue drones using a coordinated net system. Computer vision and leader–follower control architecture enable synchronized enclosure, while integrated failsafes enhance system reliability. Validated through closed‐environment
Joshua Hastings   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporally Consistent Motion Segmentation from RGB-D Video [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We present a method for temporally consistent motion segmentation from RGB-D videos assuming a piecewise rigid motion model. We formulate global energies over entire RGB-D sequences in terms of the segmentation of each frame into a number of objects ...
Zwicker, Matthias   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
wiley   +1 more source

Bio‐Inspired Object Retrieval via Proximity‐Guided Adaptive Thigmotactic Exploration and Neuromorphic Recognition

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Sparse active‐infrared proximity sensing is coupled to an adaptive thigmotactic controller for camera‐inaccessible object retrieval. After grasping, receptor‐informed encoding transforms force, temperature, and wrist force–torque signals into spike trains for spiking neural network recognition.
Fengyi Wang, Nitish Thakor, Gordon Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

RGB-D ergonomic assessment system of adopted working postures

open access: yes, 2019
RGB-D ergonomic assessment system of adopted working ...
M Smets (13171722)   +6 more
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