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While shared autonomy offers significant potential for assistive robotics, key questions remain about how to effectively map 2D control inputs to 6D robot motions. An intuitive framework should allow users to input commands effortlessly,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Shalutha Rajapakshe , Jean-Marc Odobez , Emmanuel Senft

We present a new approach to robot hand design specifically suited for successfully implementing robot learning methods to accomplish tasks in daily human environments. We introduce BaRiFlex, an innovative gripper design that alleviates the…

Robotic-assisted surgery offers significant clinical advantages but largely eliminates direct haptic feedback, increasing the risk of excessive tool-tissue interaction forces. Although recent commercial systems have begun to introduce force…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Walid Shaker , Mustafa Suphi Erden

Model Predictive Control (MPC) schemes have proven their efficiency in controlling high degree-of-freedom (DoF) complex robotic systems. However, they come at a high computational cost and an update rate of about tens of hertz. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Jin Cheng , Firas Abi-Farraj , Farbod Farshidian , Marco Hutter

In this paper, we investigate the synthesis of piecewise affine feedback controllers to address the problem of safe and robust controller design in robotics based on high-level controls specifications. The methodology is based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Marijan Vukosavljev , Ivo Jansen , Mireille E. Broucke , Angela P. Schoellig

In the paper, we show how scalable, low-cost trunk-like robotic arms can be constructed using only basic 3D-printing equipment and simple electronics. The design is based on uniform, stackable joint modules with three degrees of freedom…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Manuel Traub , Robert Legenstein , Sebastian Otte

This paper presents a Robust Adaptive Backstepping Impedance Control (RABIC) strategy for robots operating in contact-rich and uncertain environments. The proposed control strategy considers the complete coupled dynamics of the system and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Reza Nazmara , Alap Kshirsagar , Jan Peters , A. Pedro Aguiar

Shared autonomy allows for combining the global planning capabilities of a human operator with the strengths of a robot such as repeatability and accurate control. In a real-time teleoperation setting, one possibility for shared autonomy is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Simon Manschitz , Berk Gueler , Wei Ma , Dirk Ruiken

Controlling fine-grained forces during manipulation remains a core challenge in robotics. While robot policies learned from robot-collected data or simulation show promise, they struggle to generalize across the diverse range of real-world…

This paper presents the development of a new software in order to manage objects, robots and mannequins in using the possibilities given by the haptic feedback of the Phantom desktop devices. The haptic device provides 6 positional degree…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Damien Chablat , Fouad Bennis , Bernard Hoessler , Matthieu Guibert

Haptic interaction is essential for the dynamic dexterity of animals, which seamlessly switch from an impedance to an admittance behaviour using the force feedback from their proprioception. However, this ability is extremely challenging to…

We consider the problem of cooperative manipulation by a mobile multi-manipulator system operating in obstacle-cluttered and highly constrained environments under spatio-temporal task specifications. The task requires transporting a grasped…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mayank Sewlia , Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Optimal control in robotics has been increasingly popular in recent years and has been applied in many applications involving complex dynamical systems. Closed-loop optimal control strategies include model predictive control (MPC) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Hakan Girgin , Julius Jankowski , Sylvain Calinon

Robots that interact with humans or perform delicate manipulation tasks must exhibit compliance. However, most commercial manipulators are rigid and suffer from significant friction, limiting end-effector tracking accuracy in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Alexander L. Mitchell , Tobit Flatscher , Ingmar Posner

In brain-machine interface (BMI) applications, a key challenge is the low information content and high noise level in neural signals, severely affecting stable robotic control. To address this challenge, we proposes a cooperative shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Junjie Yang , Ling Liu , Shengjie Zheng , Lang Qian , Gang Gao , Xin Chen , Xiaojian Li

This Paper deals with robotic arm embed controller system, with distributed system based on protocol communication between one server supporting multiple points and mobile applications trough sockets .The proposed system utilizes hand with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Luiz Cortinhas , Patrick Monteiro , Amir Zahlan , Gabriel Vianna , Marcio Moscoso

Training end-to-end deep robot policies requires a lot of domain-, task-, and hardware-specific data, which is often costly to provide. In this work, we propose to tackle this issue by employing a deep neural network with a modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Aleksi Hämäläinen , Karol Arndt , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Ville Kyrki

This work concerns the application of physics-informed neural networks to the modeling and control of complex robotic systems. Achieving this goal required extending Physics Informed Neural Networks to handle non-conservative effects. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Jingyue Liu , Pablo Borja , Cosimo Della Santina

We introduce MecQaBot, an open-source, affordable, and modular autonomous mobile robotics framework developed for education and research at Macquarie University, School of Engineering, since 2019. This platform aims to provide students and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Alice James , Avishkar Seth , Subhas Mukhopadhyay

The objective of this work is to enable manipulation tasks with respect to the 6D pose of a dynamically moving object using a camera mounted on a robot. Examples include maintaining a constant relative 6D pose of the robot arm with respect…