Centauro: A hybrid locomotion and high power resilient manipulation platform

N Kashiri, L Baccelliere, L Muratore… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the development of a large number of mobile manipulation robots, very few
platforms can demonstrate the required strength and mechanical sturdiness to …

Cartesi/o: A ros based real-time capable cartesian control framework

A Laurenzi, EM Hoffman, L Muratore… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work introduces a framework for the Cartesian control of multi-legged, highly redundant
robots. The proposed framework allows the untrained user to perform complex motion tasks …

Real-time control architecture based on Xenomai using ROS packages for a service robot

R Delgado, BJ You, BW Choi - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a real-time (RT) control architecture based on Xenomai, an RT
embedded Linux, to control a service robot along with non-real-time (NRT) robot operating …

V2cnet: A deep learning framework to translate videos to commands for robotic manipulation

A Nguyen, TT Do, I Reid, DG Caldwell… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We propose V2CNet, a new deep learning framework to automatically translate the
demonstration videos to commands that can be directly used in robotic applications. Our …

Human inspired fall prediction method for humanoid robots

R Subburaman, D Kanoulas, L Muratore… - Robotics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Humanoid robots are anticipated to work like humans in unstructured environments, and in
such cases, falling over is inevitable due to the inherent postural instabilities and external …

Outlier-robust state estimation for humanoid robots

S Piperakis, D Kanoulas, NG Tsagarakis… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contemporary humanoids are equipped with visual and LiDAR sensors that are effectively
utilized for Visual Odometry (VO) and LiDAR Odometry (LO). Unfortunately, such …

Variable configuration planner for legged-rolling obstacle negotiation locomotion: Application on the centauro robot

VS Raghavan, D Kanoulas, A Laurenzi… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid legged-wheeled robots are able to adapt their leg configuration and height to vary
their footprint polygons and go over obstacles or traverse narrow spaces. In this paper, we …

Network-oriented real-time embedded system considering synchronous joint space motion for an omnidirectional mobile robot

R Delgado, BW Choi - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a real-time embedded system for joint space control of omnidirectional
mobile robots. Actuators driving an omnidirectional mobile robot are connected in a line …

Whole-body stabilization for visual-based box lifting with the COMAN+ robot

A Laurenzi, D Kanoulas, EM Hoffman… - 2019 Third IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present the integration of multiple components of a full-size humanoid robot
system, including control, planning, and perception methods for manipulation tasks. In …

A study on sparse hierarchical inverse kinematics algorithms for humanoid robots

EM Hoffman, MP Polverini, A Laurenzi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In humanoid robotic platforms, classical inverse kinematics algorithms, based on L2-
regularization of joint velocities or accelerations, tends to engage the motion of all the …