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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) forms the foundation of vehicle localization in autonomous driving. Utilizing high-precision 3D scene maps as prior information in vehicle localization greatly assists in the navigation of autonomous vehicles within large-scale 3D scene models.
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  • 21 Aug 2023
Topic Review
Deep Learning Models to Predict Prosthetic Ankle Torque
Inverse dynamics from motion capture is the most common technique for acquiring biomechanical kinetic data. However, this method is time-intensive, limited to a gait laboratory setting, and requires a large array of reflective markers to be attached to the body. A practical alternative must be developed to provide biomechanical information to high-bandwidth prosthesis control systems to enable predictive controllers.
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  • 25 Sep 2023
Topic Review
Relative Localization of Robot Swarms
For robot swarm applications, accurate positioning is one of the most important requirements for avoiding collisions and keeping formations and cooperation between individuals. However, in some worst cases, the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals are weak due to the crowd being in a swarm or blocked by a forest, mountains, and high buildings in the environment. Thus, relative localization is an indispensable way to provide position information for the swarm.
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  • 27 Jun 2022
Topic Review
Shear Energy on Harvesting Tools
Smart and precise agriculture has increasingly been developed in the last decade, and with that, the idea of optimizing the tools commonly used in this field for harvesting tasks. One way to improve these devices, particularly cutting tools conceived for harvesting purposes, is to measure the shear energy consumption required for a particular plant. The proposed methodology aims to establish both a design criterion for cutting grippers and a quantifiable way to evaluate and classify a harvesting tool for a specific crop.
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  • 29 Apr 2021
Topic Review
RAUM-VO
Unsupervised learning for monocular camera motion and 3D scene understanding has gained popularity over traditional methods, which rely on epipolar geometry or non-linear optimization. Notably, deep learning can overcome many issues of monocular vision, such as perceptual aliasing, low-textured areas, scale drift, and degenerate motions. In addition, concerning supervised learning, researchers can fully leverage video stream data without the need for depth or motion labels. RAUM-VO is presented here, an approach based on a model-free epipolar constraint for frame-to-frame motion estimation (F2F) to adjust the rotation during training and online inference. 
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  • 28 Apr 2022
Topic Review
Core Challenges for Multi-Robot-Path-Planning Algorithms
The benefits of multi-robot systems are substantial, bringing gains in efficiency, quality, and cost, and they are useful in a wide range of environments from warehouse automation, to agriculture and even extend in part to entertainment. In multi-robot system research, the main focus is on ensuring efficient coordination in the operation of the robots, both in task allocation and navigation. However, much of this research seldom strays from the theoretical bounds; there are many reasons for this, with the most-prominent and -impactful being resource limitations. This is especially true for research in areas such as multi-robot path planning (MRPP) and navigation coordination. This is a large issue in practice as many approaches are not designed with meaningful real-world implications in mind and are not scalable to large multi-robot systems. 
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  • 01 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Swarm Robotics for Area Coverage Problem
The area coverage problem solution is one of the vital research areas which can benefit from swarm robotics. The greatest challenge to the swarm robotics system is to complete the task of covering an area effectively. Many domains where area coverage is essential include exploration, surveillance, mapping, foraging, and several other applications.
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  • 19 Jan 2024
Topic Review
IoT-Based Smart Home Assistance for Elderly People
In the development of Internet-of-things (IoT)-based technology, there is a pre-programmed robot called Cyborg which is used for assisting elderly people. It moves around the home and observes the surrounding conditions. The Cyborg is developed and used in the smart home system. The features of a smart home system with IoT technology include temperature control, lighting control, surveillance, security, smart electricity, and water sensors.
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  • 15 Jun 2023
Topic Review
Human–Autonomous Taxis Interactions
With the increasing deployment of autonomous taxis in different cities around the world, recent studies have stressed the importance of developing new methods, models and tools for intuitive human–autonomous taxis interactions (HATIs). Street hailing is one example, where passengers would hail an autonomous taxi by simply waving a hand, exactly like they do for manned taxis.
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  • 30 May 2023
Topic Review
Components of Common Educational Teleoperation Platform for Robotics
The erratic modern world introduces challenges to all sectors of societies and potentially introduces additional inequality. One possibility to decrease the educational inequality is to provide remote access to facilities that enable learning and training. A similar approach of remote resource usage can be utilized in resource-poor situations where the required equipment is available at other premises. The concept of Industry 5.0 (i5.0) focuses on a human-centric approach, enabling technologies to concentrate on human–machine interaction and emphasizing the importance of societal values. The novel robotics teleoperation platform supported by the i5.0 reduces inequality and allows usage and learning of robotics remotely independently of time and location. The platform is based on digital twins with bi-directional data transmission between the physical and digital counterparts. 
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  • 11 Aug 2022
Topic Review Video
Decentralized Multi-UAV Cooperative Exploration
Efficient exploration is a critical issue in swarm UAVs with substantial research interest due to its applications in search and rescue missions.
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  • 13 Jun 2023
Topic Review
Robotic Applications in Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul Hangar
The aerospace industry has continually evolved to guarantee the safety and reliability of aircraft to make air travel one of the safest and most reliable means of transportation. Mobile robots encompass comprehensive system structures that work together through perception, detection, motion planning, and control. The subject of autonomous robot navigation entails mapping, localisation, obstacle detection, avoidance, and achieving an optimal path from a starting point to a predefined target location efficiently.
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  • 06 Mar 2024
Topic Review
Thermal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Thermal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a rather new research topic, with most results being published in the last decade. Research is mainly focusing on thermal odometry rather than thermal SLAM, with several research groups that succeeded in utilizing thermal cameras to compute the odometry of a vehicle. For thermal 3D-mapping, i.e., the visualization of thermal data in 3D, the most common method is to superimpose the thermal images onto a pointcloud obtained from data generated from another depth source.
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  • 22 Sep 2023
Topic Review
A Lightweight UAV SLAM System
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can experience significant performance issues during flight due to heavy CPU load, affecting their flight capabilities, communication, and endurance.
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  • 09 Jun 2023
Topic Review
Robot Localization Methods
Robots are starting to be used on construction sites to perform various tasks. Robots utilizing only geometric information for localization within a construction site may not be able to localize correctly due to the fact the ongoing site does not resemble yet the architectural plans. Semantic information can help improve the localization but still can suffer inaccuracies due to large deviation of the robot pose estimate from its actual estimate and similar semantic information in case of repetitive environments.
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  • 29 May 2023
Topic Review
3D Measurement of High-Reflective Surfaces
The reflection phenomenon exhibited by highly reflective surfaces considerably affects the quality of captured images, thereby rendering the task of structured light (SL) 3D reconstruction.
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  • 06 Jul 2023
Topic Review
Human Decision Making in Human–Robot Collaboration
The advent of Industry 4.0 has heralded advancements in human–robot collaboration (HRC), necessitating a deeper understanding of the factors influencing human decision making within this domain. An HRC system combines human soft skills such as decision making, intelligence, problem-solving, adaptability and flexibility with robots’ precision, repeatability, and the ability to work in dangerous environments.
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  • 22 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Multi-Robot Exploration and Optimization Methods
Exploring unknown environments using multiple robots has numerous applications in various fields but remains a challenging task. This entry proposes a novel hybrid optimization method called Hybrid Vulture-Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration (HVCME), which combines Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration (CME) and African Vultures Optimization Algorithm (AVOA) to optimize the construction of a finite map in multi-robot exploration. The researchers compared HVCME with four other similar algorithms using three performance measures: run time, percentage of the explored area, and the number of times the method failed to complete a run. The experimental results show that HVCME outperforms the other four methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in optimizing the construction of a finite map in an unknown indoor environment.
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  • 20 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Service Robots in Vision-Based Navigation
Biological principles draw attention to service robotics because of similar concepts when robots operate various tasks. Bioinspired perception is significant for robotic perception, which is inspired by animals’ awareness of the environment.
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  • 24 Aug 2023
Topic Review
Care of the Elderly and Robots in Healthcare
The use of robots in elderly care represents a dynamic field of study aimed at meeting the growing demand for home-based health care services. The application of robots in elderly home care is examined and contributes to the literature by introducing a comprehensive and functional architecture within the realm of the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT). This architecture amalgamates robots, sensors, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to monitor the health status of the elderly. 
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  • 22 Sep 2023
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