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Fukuda was among the rst to consider teams of robots working together [9.]. His cellular robot system (CEBOT) is a collection of heterogeneous robotic agents which are capable of assembling and disassembling themselves. Imagine, for example, a self-assembling ship in bottle. This ability to allow complex structures to be constructed on-site and the additional capability of recon guring the comb...

New area of robotic systems application is in the field closely connected with the human society. That is the service robots, the robotic medical systems, robotics for risky environment etc. The most important problem in robotic control system now is not the technical realization but the compatibility the robotic system with human. One of the ways to approach the control techniques the possibil...

Bio logy has been an important source of inspiration in building adaptive autonomous robotic systems. Due to the inherent complexity of these models, most biologicallyinspired robotic systems tend to be ethological without linkage to underlying neural circuit ry. Yet, neural mechanisms are crucial in modeling adaptation and learning. The work presented in this paper describes a schema and neura...

Robotic surgical systems are among the most complex medical cyberphysical systems on the market. Despite significant improvements in design of those systems through the years, there have been ongoing occurrences of safety incidents that negatively impact patients during procedures. This paper presents an approach for systems-theoretic safety assessment of robotic telesurgical systems using soft...

In this paper, we discuss strengths and limitations of different abstraction levels for distributed robotics experiments. We support the discussion with a concrete case study which has been investigated at four different levels: real robots, embodied simulations, microscopic modeling, and macroscopic modeling. Both modeling methodologies presented represent the collective dynamics of the experi...

Robots have been used in surgery since the late 1980s. Orthopaedic surgery began to incorporate robotic technology in 1992, with the introduction of ROBODOC, for the planning and performance of total hip replacement. The use of robotic systems has subsequently increased, with promising short-term radiological outcomes when compared with traditional orthopaedic procedures. Robotic systems can be...