Advancements in Soft Robotics: A Comprehensive Review on Actuation Methods, Materials, and Applications

Y Wang, Y Wang, RT Mushtaq, Q Wei - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
The flexibility and adaptability of soft robots enable them to perform various tasks in
changing environments, such as flower picking, fruit harvesting, in vivo targeted treatment …

Task-oriented safety field for robot control in human-robot collaborative assembly based on residual learning

C Zhu, T Yu, Q Chang - Expert Systems With Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
With the development of smart manufacturing, human-robot collaboration (HRC) is seen as
the future of manufacturing. In a manufacturing environment with HRC, safety has been …

Conventional, Heuristic and Learning-Based Robot Motion Planning: Reviewing Frameworks of Current Practical Significance

F Noroozi, M Daneshmand, P Fiorini - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Motion planning algorithms have seen considerable progress and expansion across various
domains of science and technology during the last few decades, where rapid advancements …

Multi-objective optimal trajectory planning for robotic arms using deep reinforcement learning

S Zhang, Q Xia, M Chen, S Cheng - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the trajectory-planning problem of a six-axis robotic arm based on
deep reinforcement learning. Taking into account several characteristics of robot motion, a …

Sustainable Road Planning for trucks in Urbanized areas of Chinese cities using deep learning approaches

H Wang, Z Zhao, Y Ma, H Wu, F Bao - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, urban areas are experiencing heavy traffic, and governments are implementing
various policies to manage it. For example, in China, trucks are prohibited from entering …

Optimal trajectory planning for manipulators with efficiency and smoothness constraint

Z Xu, W Wang, Y Chi, K Li, L He - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Path planning to generate an appropriate time sequence of positions for a complex
trajectory is an open challenge in robotics. This paper proposes an optimization method with …

End-to-end deep learning-based framework for path planning and collision checking: bin-picking application

MG Tamizi, H Honari, A Nozdryn-Plotnicki, H Najjaran - Robotica, 2024 - cambridge.org
Real-time and efficient path planning is critical for all robotic systems. In particular, it is of
greater importance for industrial robots since the overall planning and execution time …

Intelligent optimization algorithms for control error compensation and task scheduling for a robotic arm

PH Kuo, MJ Syu, SY Yin, HH Liu, CY Zeng… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
A task scheduling and error control optimization method for robotic arms was developed.
The arm's accuracy after optimization with particle swarm optimization, artificial bee colony …

Comparative Analysis of Metaheuristic Optimization Methods for Trajectory Generation of Automated Guided Vehicles

E Bayona, JE Sierra-García, M Santos - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a comparative analysis of several metaheuristic optimization methods
for generating trajectories of automated guided vehicles, which commonly operate in …

An Informed-Bi-Quick RRT* Algorithm Based on Offline Sampling: Motion Planning Considering Multiple Constraints for a Dual-Arm Cooperative System

Q Zhang, Y Liu, J Qin, J Duan - Actuators, 2024 - mdpi.com
Aiming to address problems such as low sampling success rate and long computation time
in the motion planning of a dual-arm cooperative system with multiple constraints, this paper …