Robots are highly present in manufacturing processes, being relevant assets for manufacturing companies that develop tasks that increase the value of the product. Those tasks are normally considered repetitive and in some cases hazardous for humans, as could cause bored...

Robots that can actively change morphology offer many advantages over fixed shape, or monolithic, robots: flexibility, increased maneuverability and modularity. So called self-reconfiguring systems (SRS) are endowed with a shape changing ability enabled by an active con...

Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour The use of multiple robots for exploration holds the promise of improved performance over single robot systems. To exploit effectively the advantage of having several robots, the robots must be co-ordinated which requires co...

This thesis studies computer vision and its applications in robotics. In particular, the thesis contributions are divided into three main categories: 1) object class matching, 2) 6D pose estimation and 3) Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC). For decades, the 2D local image ...

The idea of having robots performing the task for which they have been designed completely autonomously and interacting with the environment has been the main objective since the beginning of mobile robotics. In order to achieve such a degree of autonomy, it is indispen...

Robot control software has rapidly evolved the past decade resulting in increasingly complex applications in increasingly dynamic environments. Nevertheless, most existing robot software architectures and frameworks are robocentric. If a resource has to be shared betwee...

<p>Accompanying video for the paper "Robot Navigation for Monitoring Unsteady Environmental Boundaries without Field Gradient Estimation"</p>

In this study we address the issue of whether the field of robotics can supply the necessary technology readiness level (TRL) growth necessary to address the EU's Strategic Energy Technology (SET) roadmap targets for maintenance cost reductions in PV plants. The SET is ...