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A review of cuspidal serial and parallel manipulators [PDF]

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022, pp.1-37, 2022
Cuspidal robots can move from one inverse or direct kinematic solution to another without ever passing through a singularity. These robots have remained unknown because almost all industrial robots do not have this feature. However, in fact, industrial robots are the exceptions.
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The Use of Agricultural Robots in Orchard Management [PDF]

book chapter in Robotics and automation for improving agriculture, J. Billingsley, Ed. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2019, 2019
Book chapter that summarizes recent research on agricultural robotics in orchard management, including Robotic pruning, Robotic thinning, Robotic spraying, Robotic harvesting, Robotic fruit transportation, and future trends.
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Robotics in Snow and Ice [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Definition: The terms "robotics in snow and ice" refers to robotic systems being studied, developed, and used in areas where water can be found in its solid state. This specialized branch of field robotics investigates the impact of extreme conditions related to cold environments on autonomous vehicles.
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Game-Theoretic Modeling of Human Adaptation in Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017), 2017
In human-robot teams, humans often start with an inaccurate model of the robot capabilities. As they interact with the robot, they infer the robot's capabilities and partially adapt to the robot, i.e., they might change their actions based on the observed outcomes and the robot's actions, without replicating the robot's policy.
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Animation Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction User Studies: a Systematic Literature Review [PDF]

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Volume 8, Issue 2, Article 12, 2019, 2018
There are many different ways a robot can move in Human-Robot Interaction. One way is to use techniques from film animation to instruct the robot to move. This article is a systematic literature review of human-robot trials, pilots, and evaluations that have applied techniques from animation to move a robot.
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A Survey on End-User Robot Programming [PDF]

, 2021
As robots interact with a broader range of end-users, end-user robot programming has helped democratize robot programming by empowering end-users who may not have experience in robot programming to customize robots to meet their individual contextual needs.
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Robot Accident Investigation: a case study in Responsible Robotics [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Robot accidents are inevitable. Although rare, they have been happening since assembly-line robots were first introduced in the 1960s. But a new generation of social robots are now becoming commonplace. Often with sophisticated embedded artificial intelligence (AI) social robots might be deployed as care robots to assist elderly or disabled people to ...
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Robot Vitals and Robot Health: Towards Systematically Quantifying Runtime Performance Degradation in Robots Under Adverse Conditions [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
This paper addresses the problem of automatically detecting and quantifying performance degradation in remote mobile robots during task execution. A robot may encounter a variety of uncertainties and adversities during task execution, which can impair its ability to carry out tasks effectively and cause its performance to degrade.
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Come Closer: The Effects of Robot Personality on Human Proxemics Behaviours [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Social Robots in human environments need to be able to reason about their physical surroundings while interacting with people. Furthermore, human proxemics behaviours around robots can indicate how people perceive the robots and can inform robot personality and interaction design.
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Modular Robots: extending the capabilities of one robot [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
For a robot to be perfect and enter the everyday life of humans,like computers did, it needs to move from special-purpose robots to general-purpose. So, the idea of modularity is considered in this project.Thus, any type of task that falls in the 4 D's of Robotization: Dull, Dirty, Dangerous and Dear can be achieved by adding a module to the robot.
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