Gait rehabilitation using body weight support on a treadmill is a recommended rehabilitation technique for neurological injuries, such as spinal cord injury. In this paper, a new robotic orthosis is presented for treadmill training. In the presented design the criteria such as low inertia of robot components, backdrivability, high safety and degrees of freedom based on human walking are conside...

  Omni directional mobile robots have been popularly employed in several applications especially in soccer player robots considered in Robocup competitions. However, Omni directional navigation system, Omni-vision system and solenoid kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. This situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensi...

Nowadays it is eagerly expected that, on one hand the environmental impact of agricultural activities is decreasing, and on the other hand the level of production is increasing in order to match the consumption demand of the growing worldwide population. To meet these opposite expectations, new production tools have to be developed. Recent advances in offroad mobile robotics may bring to promis...

In this paper, we studied numerically both kinematic and dynamic models of a biologically inspired mammal-like octopod robot walking with a tetrapod gait. Three different nonlinear oscillators were used to drive the robot’s legs working as central pattern generators. In addition, also a new, relatively simple and efficient model was proposed and investigated. The introduced model of the gait ge...

The Bionic Handling Assistant is a new continuum robot which is manufactured in a rapid-prototyping procedure out of elastic polyamide. Its mechanical flexibility and low weight provide an enormous potential for physical human robot interaction. Yet, the elasticity and parallel continuum actuation design challenge standard approaches to deal with a robot from a control, simulation, and software...

Pneumatic soft robots outperform rigid in complex environments due to the high flexibility of their redundant configurations, and shape control is considered a prerequisite for applications unstructured environments. In this paper, we propose depth vision-based method two-segment robot, which uses binocular camera achieve 3D robot. A closed-loop algorithm based on vision designed compensation w...

Motivated by a high demand for automated inspection of civil infrastructure, this paper presents a novel design and development of a tank-like robot for structural health monitoring. Unlike most existing magnetic wheeled mobile robot designs, which is only suitable for climbing on flat steel surface, our proposed tank-like robot design uses reciprocating mechanism and roller-chains to make it c...

How is communicative gesture behavior in robots perceived by humans? Although gesture is a crucial feature of social interaction, this research question is still largely unexplored in the field of social robotics. The present work thus sets out to investigate how robot gesture can be used to design and realize more natural and human-like communication capabilities for social robots. The adopted...

The basic idea is to construct a mobile patrolling robot for security and monitoring. For an on-demand robotic system, a location aware module provides location information of objects, users, and the mobile robot itself. The probability-based location aware module is modified to handle RSSI measurements with a maximum of calibration. The resultant location calibration module will be more light-...