This paper surveys various applications of artificial evolution in the field of modular robots.
Evolutionary robotics aims to design autonomous adaptive robots automatically that can …

One of the primary objectives of sustainable manufacturing is to minimize energy
consumption in its manufacturing processes. A strategy of energy saving is to adapt new …

This paper presents a procedure and the results of an optimal design of the kinematic
structure of a manipulator to be used for autonomous cucumber harvesting in greenhouses …

Industrial robots cannot be reconfigured to optimally fulfill a given task and often have to be
caged to guarantee human safety. Consequently, production processes are meticulously …

Keyhole surgery requires highly dexterous snake-like robotic arms capable of bending
around anatomical obstacles to access clinical targets that diverge from the direct port-of …

In this paper, conventional global and local indices–structural length index, manipulability
measure, condition number and Global Conditioning Index (GCI)–have been examined for …

This article describes the development of a component-based technology robot workcell that
can be rapidly configured to perform a specific manufacturing task. The workcell is …

A systematic solution to precision control of modular robot manipulators without using joint
torque sensing is presented in this paper for the first time. Using the virtual decomposition …

The design of legged robots is often inspired by animals evolved to excel at different tasks.
However, while mimicking morphological features seen in nature can be very powerful …

Through the implementation of reconfigurability to achieve flexibility and adaptation to tasks
by morphology changes rather than by increasing the number of joints, malleable robots …