A survey on AI-driven digital twins in industry 4.0: Smart manufacturing and advanced robotics

Z Huang, Y Shen, J Li, M Fey, C Brecher - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Digital twin (DT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have grown rapidly in recent
years and are considered by both academia and industry to be key enablers for Industry 4.0 …

A review of tactile information: Perception and action through touch

Q Li, O Kroemer, Z Su, FF Veiga… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactile sensing is a key sensor modality for robots interacting with their surroundings. These
sensors provide a rich and diverse set of data signals that contain detailed information …

Unfolding the literature: A review of robotic cloth manipulation

A Longhini, Y Wang, I Garcia-Camacho… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The realm of textiles spans clothing, households, healthcare, sports, and industrial
applications. The deformable nature of these objects poses unique challenges that prior …

Assistive gym: A physics simulation framework for assistive robotics

Z Erickson, V Gangaram, A Kapusta… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous robots have the potential to serve as versatile caregivers that improve quality of
life for millions of people worldwide. Yet, conducting research in this area presents …

Physically assistive robots: A systematic review of mobile and manipulator robots that physically assist people with disabilities

A Nanavati, V Ranganeni… - Annual Review of Control …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
More than 1 billion people in the world are estimated to experience significant disability.
These disabilities can impact people's ability to independently conduct activities of daily …

Deep haptic model predictive control for robot-assisted dressing

Z Erickson, HM Clever, G Turk, CK Liu… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-assisted dressing offers an opportunity to benefit the lives of many people with
disabilities, such as some older adults. However, robots currently lack common sense about …

An extended framework for characterizing social robots

K Baraka, P Alves-Oliveira, T Ribeiro - Human-Robot Interaction …, 2020 - Springer
Social robots are becoming increasingly diverse in their design, behavior, and usage. In this
chapter, we provide a broad-ranging overview of the main characteristics that arise when …

Probabilistic real-time user posture tracking for personalized robot-assisted dressing

F Zhang, A Cully, Y Demiris - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic solutions to dressing assistance have the potential to provide tremendous support
for elderly and disabled people. However, unexpected user movements may lead to …

A multimodal execution monitor with anomaly classification for robot-assisted feeding

D Park, H Kim, Y Hoshi, Z Erickson… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Activities of daily living (ADLs) are important for quality of life. Robotic assistance offers the
opportunity for people with disabilities to perform ADLs on their own. However, when a …

Fluidically programmed wearable haptic textiles

B Jumet, ZA Zook, A Yousaf, A Rajappan, D Xu, TF Yap… - Device, 2023 - cell.com
Haptic feedback offers a useful mode of communication in visually or auditorily noisy
environments. The adoption of haptic devices in our everyday lives, however, remains …