Artificial perception for robots operating in outdoor natural environments, including forest scenarios, has been the object of a substantial amount of research for decades. Regardless …
The integration of Industry 4.0 concepts into today's manufacturing settings has introduced new technology tools that have already started providing companies an increased level of …
We present a novel method for reliable robot navigation in uneven outdoor terrains. Our approach employs a fully-trained Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) network that uses …
Understanding the terrain in the upcoming path of a ground robot is one of the most challenging problems in field robotics. Terrain and traversability analysis is a …
Autonomous navigation in rough and dynamic 3D environments is a major challenge for modern robotics. This paper presents a novel traversability analysis and path planning …
With the advent of artificial intelligence, the analysis of systems related to complex processes has become possible or easier. The interaction of the traction factor of off-road …
Increasing the terrain awareness of planetary exploration rovers is one key technology for future space robotics to successfully accomplish long‐distance and long‐duration missions …
Different tasks inside the environments call for different types of robots with various traits and designs. The research community appears to favour a number of robot classes in particular …
Robots with bio-inspired locomotion systems, such as quadruped robots, have recently attracted significant scientific interest, especially those designed to tackle missions in …