Deep Learning Based Pavement Inspection Using Self-Reconfigurable Robot [PDF]
Sensors, 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 ...
Balakrishnan Ramalingam +7 more
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Docking Design of Self-Reconfigurable Robot
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2011 Docking design of self-reconfigurable robots is studied. Firstly, the self-reconfigurable robot is presented. Its basic module is designed, which is composed of a central cube and six rotary arms.
Yanqiong Fei
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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, 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,
Anh Vu Le +3 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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Analysis on Self-Morphing Process of Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot
International 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
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Collision Avoidance and Stability Study of a Self-Reconfigurable Drainage Robot
Sensors, 2021 The inspection and maintenance of drains with varying heights necessitates a drain mapping robot with trained labour to maintain community hygiene and prevent the spread of diseases.
Rizuwana Parween +4 more
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Printing Untethered Self‐Reconfigurable, Self‐Amputating Soft Robots from Recyclable Self‐Healing Fibers [PDF]
Advanced ScienceRegarding the challenge of self‐reconfiguration and self‐amputation of soft robots, existing studies mainly focus on modular soft robots and connection methods between modules.
Yidan Gao +7 more
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Design and Implementation of a Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2014 This paper presents the design and implementation of a new modular self-reconfigurable robot. The single module has three joints and can perform rectilinear motion, lateral shift, lateral rolling, and rotation. A flexible pin-hole-based docking mechanism
Guifang Qiao +4 more
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International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2014 The most important feature of a Self-Reconfigurable Robot (SRR) is that it is reconfigurable and self-repairing. At the centre of these capabilities is autonomous docking. One difficulty for docking is the alignment between two robots. Current strategies
Yanhe Zhu +5 more
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Optimized user-guided motion control of modular robots [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsTransferring motion instructions from a user enables robots to perform new and unforeseen operations. Robot collectives, in particular, offer greater adaptability to changing tasks and environments.
Anastasia Bolotnikova +5 more
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