Despite numerous research works on conveyor robots, few can be found electropneumatic belt robots with two separated lines. The unique feature of this study is a combination various systems to develop an robot. In work, automated and intelligent mechatronic system designed developed for transporting positioning circular objects that used in the manufacturing packaging industries. addition movin...

Rather than the conventional classification method, we propose to divide modular and reconfigurable robots into intra-, inter-, and nested reconfigurations. We suggest designing the robot with nested reconfigurability, which utilizes individual robots with intra-reconfigurability capable of combining with other homogeneous/heteroge‐ neous robots inter-reconfigurability . The objective of this a...

Planar and rigid wafer-based electronics are intrinsically incompatible with curvilinear and deformable organisms. Recent development of organic and inorganic flexible and stretchable electronics enabled sensing, stimulation, and actuation of/for soft biological and artificial entities. This review summarizes the enabling technologies of soft sensors and actuators, as well as power sources base...

Cognitive robotics is a fascinating field in its own right and comprises both key features of autonomicity and cognitive skills like learning behavior. Cognitive architectures aim at mirroring human memory and assumptions about mental processes. A robot does not only extend the cognitive architecture regarding real-world interaction but brings new and important challenges regarding perception a...

This paper describes the Asynchronous Teams (A-Teams) based collision avoidance algorithm in the Programmable Automated Welding System's Off-line Programming (PAWS-OLP) system. A-Teams organize different software or operators in an asynchronous way so that a variety of simple or sophisticated agents can cooperate to produce better results in a global sense. Joint limits, minimal joint motion, s...

This paper presents a control strategy for manipulation of exible objects by multiple robot arms. The control policy developed in this paper for exible objects is based on a controller developed previously for rigid objects: the object impedance controller. The controller compensates for the dynamics of both the arms and the object and responds to environmental forces with a fully programmable ...

Learning control encompasses a class of control algorithms for programmable machines such as robots which attain, through an iterative process, the motor dexterity that enables the machine to execute complex tasks. In this paper we discuss the use of function identiication and adaptive control algorithms in learning controllers for robot manipulators. In particular, we discuss the similarities ...

We present Gaalop (Geometric algebra algorithms optimizer), our tool for high performance computing based on conformal geometric algebra. The main goal of Gaalop is to realize implementations that are most likely faster than conventional solutions. In order to achieve this goal, our focus is on parallel target platforms like FPGA (field-programmable gate arrays) or the CUDA technology from NVID...

This paper deals with one of the current research fields developed by the computer architecture group at the University of Valencia. The work presented is concerned about the design of a reconfigurable module, designed with programmable logic, which can implement several interesting robot navigation algorithms. The use of reconfigurable logic in autonomous vehicles can be a good approach for ac...

Transforming research results into marketable products requires considerable endurance and a strong sense of entrepreneurship. The KUKA Lightweight Robot (LWR) is the latest outcome of a bilateral research collaboration between KUKA Roboter, Augsburg, and the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling. The LWR has unique characteristics including a low...