Anticipation can enhance the capability of a robot in its interaction with humans, where the robot predicts the humans’ intention for selecting its own action. We present a novel framework of anticipatory action selection for human-robot interaction, which is capable to handle nonlinear and stochastic human behaviors such as table tennis strokes and allows the robot to choose the optimal action...

the problem of navigation among movable obstacles (namo) is to find a collision free path for a robot while the robot is able to manipulate and transfer some objects (if possible or needed) to clear its path toward the goal. namo is a np-complete problem and is in a class of motion planning problems that have dynamic environments. in this domain, an optimal plan for the robot can be defined wit...

Control graphs are used in multi-robot systems to maintain information about which robot senses another robot, and at what position. Control graphs allow robots to localize relative to others, and maintain stable formations. Previous work makes two critical assumptions. First, it assumes edge weights of control graphs are deterministic scalars, while in reality they represent complex stochastic...

planning robot trajectory is a complex task that plays a significant role in design and application of robots in task space. the problem is formulated as a trajectory optimization problem which is fundamentally a constrained nonlinear optimization problem. open-loop optimal control method is proposed as an approach for trajectory optimization of cable parallel manipulator for a given two-end-po...

introduction we aimed to introduce a 6-universal-prismatic-spherical (ups) parallel mechanism for the human jaw motion and theoretically evaluate its kinematic problem. we proposed a strategy to provide a fast and accurate solution to the kinematic problem. the proposed strategy could accelerate the process of solution-finding for the direct kinematic problem by reducing the number of required ...

Tracking control of the direct-drive robot manipulators in high-speed is a challenging problem. The Coriolis and centrifugal torques become dominant in the high-speed motion control. The dynamical model of the robotic system including the robot manipulator and actuators is highly nonlinear, heavily coupled, uncertain and computationally extensive in non-companion form. In order to overcome thes...

This paper describes a low computational direct approach for optimal motion planning and obstacle avoidance of Omni-directional mobile robots within velocity and acceleration constraints on the robot motion. The main purpose of this problem is the minimization of a quadratic cost function while limitation on velocity and acceleration of robot is considered and collision with any obstacle in the...

in this paper, the important formation control problem of nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots is investigated via a leader-follower strategy. to this end, the dynamics model of the considered wheeled mobile robot is derived using lagrange equations of motion. then, using adams multi-body simulation software, the obtained dynamics of the wheeled system in matlab software is verified. after that, ...