Robotic Intelligence and Automation: Volume 43 Issue 4

On mimicking human’s manipulation for robot-assisted spine ultrasound imaging

Qinghua Huang, Yingchen Wang, Hao Luo, Jianyi Li

This paper aims to develop a new robotic ultrasound system for spine imaging with more anthropomorphic scanning manipulation in comparison with previously reported techniques.

An efficient genetic algorithm for multi AGV scheduling problem about intelligent warehouse

Wenlong Cheng, Wenjun Meng

This study aims to address the challenge of automatic guided vehicle (AGV) scheduling for parcel storage and retrieval in an intelligent warehouse.

Implicit contact-rich manipulation planning for a manipulator with insufficient payload

Kento Nakatsuru, Weiwei Wan, Kensuke Harada

This paper aims to study using a mobile manipulator with a collaborative robotic arm component to manipulate objects beyond the robot’s maximum payload.

Robust pose estimation for ship block assembly feature based on large-scale scanning

Chuyu Tang, Genliang Chen, Hao Wang, Yangfan Yu

Hull block assembly is a vital task in ship construction. It is necessary to obtain the actual poses of the assembly features to guide further block alignment. Traditional methods…

Hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithms for cost-oriented robotic assembly line balancing problems

Canran Zhang, Jianping Dou, Shuai Wang, Pingyuan Wang

The cost-oriented robotic assembly line balancing problem (cRALBP) has practical importance in real-life manufacturing scenarios. However, only a few studies tackle the cRALBP…

Research on two-stage grasping planning method for multifingered dexterous hand

Zhonglai Tian, Hongtai Cheng, Liangliang Zhao, Jingdong Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to design a multifingered dexterous hand grasping planning method that can efficiently perform grasping tasks on multiple dexterous hand platforms.

Study of speed and angle during safe and comfortable standing of elderly people

Haiyan Wang, Jiayu Fu, Li Mei, Xiangrong Xu, Shanshan Xu, Zhixiong Wang, Ri Su Na

This study aims to obtain the speed and angle during safe and comfortable standing of elderly people. With the advancement of society, it is becoming increasingly difficult for…

Surface defect classification of hot-rolled steel strip based on mixed attention mechanism

Haonan Fan, Qin Dong, Naixuan Guo

This paper aims to propose a classification method for steel strip surface defects based on a mixed attention mechanism to achieve fast and accurate classification performance…

Boosting visual servoing performance through RGB-based methods

Haolin Fei, Ziwei Wang, Stefano Tedeschi, Andrew Kennedy

This paper aims to evaluate and compare the performance of different computer vision algorithms in the context of visual servoing for augmented robot perception and autonomy.

Robot task programming in complex task scenarios based on spatio-temporal constraint calculus

Jinzhong Li, Ming Cong, Dong Liu, Yu Du

Robots face fundamental challenges in achieving reliable and stable operations for complex home service scenarios. This is one of the crucial topics of robotics methods to imitate…