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Routine inspections for critical infrastructures such as bridges are required in most jurisdictions worldwide. Such routine inspections are largely visual in nature, which are qualitative, subjective, and not repeatable. Although robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Sunwoong Choi , Zaid Abbas Al-Sabbag , Sriram Narasimhan , Chul Min Yeum

This paper presents an echo-side modulation framework for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. A space-time reconfigurable intelligent surface (ST-RIS) impresses a continuous-phase modulation onto the radar echo, enabling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Marouan Mizmizi , Stefano Tebaldini , Umberto Spagnolini

A reliable pose estimator robust to environmental disturbances is desirable for mobile robots. To this end, inertial measurement units (IMUs) play an important role because they can perceive the full motion state of the vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yibin Wu , Jian Kuang , Xiaoji Niu , Jens Behley , Lasse Klingbeil , Heiner Kuhlmann

This paper presents visual and 3D structure inspection for steel structures and bridges using a developed climbing robot. The robot can move freely on a steel surface, carry sensors, collect data and then send to the ground station in real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hung M. La

As integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) capabilities become more prevalent in the mobile 6G radio landscape, there is a substantial opportunity to enhance situational awareness across diverse applications through multi-static radar…

Impulsive signature enhancement (ISE) is an important topic in the monitoring of rotating machinery and many different methods have been proposed. Even though, the topic of how to leverage these ISE techniques to improve the data quality in…

Applications · Statistics 2018-08-13 Xiaodong Jia , Ming Zhao , Haoshu Cai , Jay Lee

Automated and autonomous industrial inspection is a longstanding research field, driven by the necessity to enhance safety and efficiency within industrial settings. In addressing this need, we introduce an autonomously navigating robotic…

In this paper, we present a new robotic system to perform defect inspection tasks over free-form specular surfaces. The autonomous procedure is achieved by a six-DOF manipulator, equipped with a line scan camera and a high-intensity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Shengzeng Huo , David Navarro-Alarcon , David Chik

Blind beamforming has emerged as a promising approach to configure reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) without relying on channel state information (CSI) or geometric models, making it directly compatible with commodity hardware. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Son Dinh-Van , Nam Phuong Tran , Matthew D. Higgins

Pose estimation-guided unseen object 6-DoF robotic manipulation is a key task in robotics. However, the scalability of current pose estimation methods to unseen objects remains a fundamental challenge, as they generally rely on CAD models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jian Liu , Wei Sun , Kai Zeng , Jin Zheng , Hui Yang , Hossein Rahmani , Ajmal Mian , Lin Wang

In the field of optoelectronics, indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes play a crucial role in various applications, such as displays, sensors, and solar cells. Effective fault diagnosis and root cause analysis of the ITO electrodes are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Tae Yeob Kang , Haebom Lee , Sungho Suh

Soft robotic systems offer benefits over traditional rigid systems through reduced contact trauma with soft tissues and by enabling access through tortuous paths in minimally invasive surgery. However, the inherent deformability of soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-04 James Avery , Mark Runciman , Ara Darzi , George P. Mylonas

This paper reports on developing an integrated framework for safety-aware informative motion planning suitable for legged robots. The information-gathering planner takes a dense stochastic map of the environment into account, while safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Sangli Teng , Yukai Gong , Jessy W. Grizzle , Maani Ghaffari

We present the Ising noise filter, a highly portable, graph-based pre-filtering algorithm for early-stage background suppression in particle accelerators and astrophysical detectors. Standard noise rejection methods relying on track fitting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 I. Kharuk

Indoor robotics localization, navigation, and interaction heavily rely on scene understanding and reconstruction. Compared to the monocular vision which usually does not explicitly introduce any geometrical constraint, stereo vision-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Qiang Wang , Shizhen Zheng , Qingsong Yan , Fei Deng , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Robotic camera systems enable dynamic, repeatable motion beyond human capabilities, yet their adoption remains limited by the high cost and operational complexity of industrial-grade platforms. We present the Intelligent Robotic Imaging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Qilong Cheng , Matthew Mackay , Ali Bereyhi

The reconfigurable intelligent surfaces detection and identification (RISs-ID) is a critical process that enables a base station (BS) to adaptively assign the appropriate RIS to a given user equipment (UE). This work proposes a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Aymen Khaleel , Adam Umra , Aydin Sezgin

The Danish Technological Institute (DTI) focuses on transferring advanced technologies (including robots) to the industry and the public sector. One key application is laptop refurbishment using specialized robots, aimed at promoting reuse,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Erblin Isaku , Hassan Sartaj , Shaukat Ali , Malaika Din Hashmi , Francois Picard

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) not only assist communication but also help the localization of user equipment (UE). This study focuses on the indoor localization of UE with a single access point (AP) aided by multiple RISs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiyu Wang , Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Yu Han , Shi Jin

This paper improves visual-inertial systems to boost the localization accuracy for low-cost rescue robots. When robots traverse on rugged terrain, the performance of pose estimation suffers from big noise on the measurements of the inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xiaoling Long , Qingwen Xu , Yijun Yuan , Zhenpeng He , Sören Schwertfeger