... rights only Intelligent control Robotics Multi-agent systems Unmanned aerial vehicles Surveillance operation is one of the most common missions for a multi-UAV system. It includes patrol and static targets monitoring, where each target is also assigned to a priority level (high or low...

... symmetric physiotherapy. A key difficulty in previous work is in maintaining mirror-imaged trajectories between the affected and less-affected limbs. This obstacle was overcome in this work by using a two-armed robotic exoskeleton to enforce symmetry. In total, 15 subjects, >6 months post stroke were...

...Mohammad Mehdi Fateh; Ali Asghar Arab Purpose – The uncertainty and nonlinearity are the challenging problems for the control of a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot. To overcome these problems, many valuable methods have been proposed by using two control loops namely the kinematic control...

...Mohammad Mehdi Fateh; Siamak Azargoshasb Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design a discrete indirect adaptive fuzzy controller for a robotic manipulator. This paper addresses how to overcome the approximation error of the fuzzy system and uncertainties for asymptotic tracking control...

... for solving the push recovery problem of a quadruped robot, which can tune the controller parameters based on its search mechanism. ADAMS simulation environment is adopted to implement the proposed scheme for the quadruped robot. Design/methodology/approach – Maintaining balance is a rather complicated...

...Haibin Duan; Peixin Qiao Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a novel swarm intelligence optimizer — pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO) — and describe how this algorithm was applied to solve air robot path planning problems. Design/methodology/approach – The formulation...

...Yang Gao; Jan Peters; Antonios Tsourdos; Jacques Penders; Lyuba Alboul Purpose This paper aims to discuss traffic patterns generated by swarms of robots while commuting to and from a base station. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a mathematical evaluation and robot swarm simulation...

..., and that is the ESM. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Robotics Searching Programming and algorithm theory Differential evolution Unmanned aerial vehicles Co‐operation The search problem has been extensively studied in the literature, starting off with a single agent problem...

...Jun Wu; Jian Huang; Yongji Wang; Kexin Xing Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel wearable rehabilitation robotic hand driven by Pneumatic Muscle‐Torsion Spring (PM‐TS) for finger therapy. PM has complex nonlinear dynamics, which makes PM modelling difficult. To realize high...

... rooms. Originality/value The work described in this paper is original, since it uses only two microphones for the speaker localization. Signal processing Robotics Systems and control theory The task of audiovisual recordings supervision, in surveillance or multimedia applications, has...

...Dimitri V. Zarzhitsky; Diana F. Spears; David R. Thayer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a multi‐robot solution to the problem of chemical source localization, in which a team of inexpensive, simple vehicles with short‐range, low‐power sensing, communication, and processing...

... vision, to find simple rules, leading mobile, autonomous robots with limited capacities in their environment to realize tasks, like those of: browsing, collecting or self‐assembly. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to suggest a method, making global behavior evolve within an homogeneous agent...

...Sanjay K. Boddhu; John C. Gallagher Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to employ evolvable hardware concepts, to effectively construct flapping‐wing mechanism controllers for micro robots, with the evolved dynamically complex controllers embedded in a, physically...

...Suranga Hettiarachchi; William M. Spears; Lukas König; Sanaz Mostaghim; Hartmut Schmeck Purpose In evolutionary robotics (ER), robotic control systems are subject to a developmental process inspired by natural evolution. The purpose of this paper is to utilize a control system representation based...

...Suranga Hettiarachchi; William M. Spears; Blesson Varghese; Gerard McKee Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address a classic problem – pattern formation identified by researchers in the area of swarm robotic systems – and is also motivated by the need for mathematical foundations in swarm...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Robotics Modelling Intelligent agents In the mid 1990s, swarms began to be a viable possible technology in the area of autonomous robots. Many researchers worked on a variety of different platforms that ranged from walking to rolling...

...Abdelkader Behdenna; Clare Dixon; Michael Fisher Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the logical specification, and automated verification, of high‐level robotic behaviours. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses temporal logic as a formal language for providing abstractions...

...Suranga Hettiarachchi; William M. Spears; Giulio Zecca; Paul Couderc; Michel Banâtre; Roberto Beraldi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how a swarm of robots can cooperate to achieve a common task, in a totally distributed and autonomous way, by exploiting powerful clues contained...

...Suranga Hettiarachchi; William M. Spears; Diana F. Spears; David R. Thayer; Dimitri V. Zarzhitsky Purpose In light of the current international concerns with security and terrorism, interest is increasing on the topic of using robot swarms to locate the source of chemical hazards. The purpose...

...Suranga Hettiarachchi; William M. Spears; Hui Wang; Michael Jenkin; Patrick Dymond Purpose A simultaneous solution to the localization and mapping problem of a graph‐like environment by a swarm of robots requires solutions to task coordination and map merging. The purpose of this paper...