Robot Operating System (ROS) has been the mainstream platform for research and
development of robotic applications. This platform is well-known for lacking security features …

In this paper, we designed and implemented a moving object prediction and grasping
system that enables a robot manipulator using a two-finger gripper to grasp moving objects …

Pistachio is a healthy and delicious snack with high economic value, especially when
product consists of only open pistachios. For this reason, many studies have been carried …

In warehouse and manufacturing environments, manipulation platforms are frequently
deployed at conveyor belts to perform pick-and-place tasks. Because objects on the …

Bin pick-and-place is an important topic in factory automation and warehouse automation. In
this paper, a bin pick-and-place system based on robot operating system (ROS) is …

Despite numerous research works on conveyor robots, few works can be found on
electropneumatic conveyor belt robots with two separated lines. The unique feature of this …

Teleoperation virtual platforms allow people to send their skills and capacities into machines
located in either relative close (few meters away) or far (different continents) locations. With …

MoveIt is the primary software library for motion planning and mobile manipulation in ROS,
and it incorporates the latest advances in motion planning, control and perception. However …

This paper proposes a novel hardware-based multidimensional sorting algorithm and its
respective architecture, called real-time hardware sorter (RTHS), for emerging data intensive …

This article explores a specialized problem of safely manipulating a moving object on a
surface concerning moving obstacles with an industrial manipulator. To address this …