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An inorganic-organic hybrid CQDs@PVP lubricant additive: Achieving low friction and wear in PEG and water Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Tao Yang, Xiaozhen Wang, Huanchen Liu, Qin Zhao, Kuiliang Gong, Weimin Li, Yongmin Liang, Xiaobo Wang
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A Consistent Parallel Estimation Framework for Visual-Inertial SLAM IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Zheng Huai, Guoquan Huang
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A New Expression for the Passivity Bound for a Class of Sampled-Data Systems IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Rodney G. Roberts, Carl A. Moore, J. Edward Colgate
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Challenges for Monocular 6D Object Pose Estimation in Robotics IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 tefan Thalhammer, Dominik Bauer, Peter Hönig, Jean-Baptiste Weibel, José García-Rodríguez, Markus Vincze
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Tribological properties of the beetle leg joints Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Konstantin Nadein, Alexander Kovalev, Stanislav N. Gorb
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Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots Sci. Robot. (IF 26.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Marco Pontin, Dana D. Damian
Resilience is crucial for the self-preservation of biological systems: Humans recover from wounds thanks to an immune system that autonomously enacts a multistage response to promote healing. Similar passive mechanisms can enable pneumatic soft robots to overcome common faults such as bursts originating from punctures or overpressurization. Recent technological advancements, ranging from fault-tolerant
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Bilateral Back Extensor Exosuit for multidimensional assistance and prevention of spinal injuries Sci. Robot. (IF 26.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Jae In Kim, Jaeyoun Choi, Junhyung Kim, Junkyung Song, Jaebum Park, Yong-Lae Park
Lumbar spine injuries resulting from heavy or repetitive lifting remain a prevalent concern in workplaces. Back-support devices have been developed to mitigate these injuries by aiding workers during lifting tasks. However, existing devices often fall short in providing multidimensional force assistance for asymmetric lifting, an essential feature for practical workplace use. In addition, validation
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Eddy Current Instrumentation of Bond Coating Thickness by Developing Three-Winding Transformer Model IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Chao Li, Mengbao Fan, Binghua Cao, Bo Ye, Jiahang Yan
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Adaptive Observer-Based Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control for Low Altitude Quadcopter Grasping IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Sean Smith, Ya-Jun Pan
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Feedback Control of a Dielectric-Elastomer Soft Robot Using Modified Dubins Path Planning IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Xinlei Li, Dong Wang
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Adaptive Interactive Control of Human and Quadruped Robot Load Motion IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Sai Gu, Fei Meng, Botao Liu, Xuechao Chen, Zhangguo Yu, Qiang Huang
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Fully Distributed Edge-Based Dynamic Event-Triggered Control for Multiple Quadrotors IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Hao Wang, Jinjun Shan, Hassan Alkomy
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A Transfer Reinforcement Learning-Based Control Method for Vertical n-Link Underactuated Manipulator With Two Passive Joints IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Jundong Wu, Siyu Chen, Yawu Wang, Pan Zhang, Chun-Yi Su, Daiki Sato
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Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for Flapping Wing Robot Three-Dimensional Flight IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Chen Qian, Rui Chen, Peiyao Shen, Yongchun Fang, Jifu Yan, Tiefeng Li
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L*—An index for evaluating long range performance of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Manfu Zhu, Liran Ma, Jianbin Luo
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Nickel phosphorous trisulfide: A ternary 2D material with an ultra-low coefficient of friction Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Haoyu Deng, Tongtong Yu, Changhe Du, Ruilin Shen, Yongkang Zhao, Xinjian He, Yange Feng, Liqiang Zhang, Daoai Wang
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Enamel matrix proteins in promoting saliva lubrication Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Hujun Wang, Yue Tang, Haonan Qiu, Jingyang Hu, Yuan Su, Jing Zheng, Zhongrong Zhou
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Recent developments in functional organic polymer coatings for biomedical applications in implanted devices Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Yinuo Yang, Yiran Jia, Yanran Zhao, Haimang Wang, Hongyu Zhang
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Efficient Deep Learning of Robust Policies from MPC using Imitation and Tube-Guided Data Augmentation IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Andrea Tagliabue, Jonathan P. How
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EVORA: Deep Evidential Traversability Learning for Risk-Aware Off-Road Autonomy IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Xiaoyi Cai, Siddharth Ancha, Lakshay Sharma, Philip R. Osteen, Bernadette Bucher, Stephen Phillips, Jiuguang Wang, Michael Everett, Nicholas Roy, Jonathan P. How
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Heterogeneous Policy Networks for Composite Robot Team Communication and Coordination IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Esmaeil Seraj, Rohan Paleja, Luis Pimentel, Kin Man Lee, Zheyuan Wang, Daniel Martin, Matthew Sklar, John Zhang, Zahi Kakish, Matthew Gombolay
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A Shared Autonomy System for Precise and Efficient Remote Underwater Manipulation IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Amy Phung, Gideon Billings, Andrea F. Daniele, Matthew R. Walter, Richard Camilli
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A Compact Variable Stiffness Actuator for Agile Legged Locomotion IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Lei Yu, Haizhou Zhao, Siying Qin, Gumin Jin, Yuqing Chen
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Model-Free Magnetic Servoing Control: Leveraging Raw Magnetic Data for Robotic Manipulation IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Yameng Zhang, Yizhao Qian, Li Liu, Max Q.-H. Meng
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A Multimodal Robust Recognition Method for Grasping Objects With Robot Flexible Grippers IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Qiaokang Liang, Wenxing Xiao, Jianyong Long, Dan Zhang
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A Novel Variable-Parameter Variable-Activation-Function Finite-Time Neural Network for Solving Joint-Angle Drift Issues of Redundant-Robot Manipulators IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Jinhua Deng, Chunquan Li, Rongling Chen, Boyu Zheng, Zhijun Zhang, Junzhi Yu, Peter Xiaoping Liu
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Helical Routing: Decoupling Segments of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Matteo Russo, Samuel Wild, Xin Dong, Dragos Axinte
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Reconciling RaiSim with the Maximum Dissipation Principle IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Quentin Le Lidec, Justin Carpentier
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Edge Accelerated Robot Navigation With Collaborative Motion Planning IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Guoliang Li, Ruihua Han, Shuai Wang, Fei Gao, Yonina C. Eldar, Chengzhong Xu
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Damping Coefficient Characterization and Experiment of an Electromagnetic Damper for Shimmy Reduction IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Chenfei She, Ming Zhang, Marko Hinkkanen, Firdausa Ahmed, Jin Shi, Xinyu Liu
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LPV Modeling and Robust Sampled-Data $H_{\infty }$ Control of a Tailless Flapping Wing Microaerial Vehicle With Parameter Uncertainties IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Qingcheng Guo, Zhicheng Deng, Chaofeng Wu, Feng Cui, Qing-Hao Zhang, Jun-Guo Lu
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Design Paradigm for Human Size Manipulator With High Payload, Repeatability, and Bandwidth IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Huilai Li, Zezheng Wang, Maowen Sun, Yingwei Bao, Zhenfei Ling, Haoyi Jiang, Xiaoping Ouyang, Huayong Yang
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Visual route following for tiny autonomous robots Sci. Robot. (IF 26.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Tom van Dijk, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C. H. E. de Croon
Navigation is an essential capability for autonomous robots. In particular, visual navigation has been a major research topic in robotics because cameras are lightweight, power-efficient sensors that provide rich information on the environment. However, the main challenge of visual navigation is that it requires substantial computational power and memory for visual processing and storage of the results
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Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots Sci. Robot. (IF 26.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Terry Ching, Joseph Zhi Wei Lee, Shane Kyi Hla Win, Luke Soe Thura Win, Danial Sufiyan, Charlotte Pei Xuan Lim, Nidhi Nagaraju, Yi-Chin Toh, Shaohui Foong, Michinao Hashimoto
This paper introduces an approach to fabricating lightweight, untethered soft robots capable of diverse biomimetic locomotion. Untethering soft robotics from electrical or pneumatic power remains one of the prominent challenges within the field. The development of functional untethered soft robotic systems hinges heavily on mitigating their weight; however, the conventional weight of pneumatic network
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Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation Sci. Robot. (IF 26.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Tianyu Chen, Xudong Yang, Bojian Zhang, Junwei Li, Jie Pan, Yifan Wang
Biological organisms often have remarkable multifunctionality through intricate structures, such as concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation in the octopus. Soft robots, which are inspired by natural creatures, usually require the integration of separate modules to achieve these various functions. As a result, the whole structure is cumbersome, and the control system is complex, often involving
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Study on the influence of food emulsion components on its lubrication characteristics and smooth perception Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Shanhua Qian, Liang Wang, Ziyan Zheng, Qichen Tang, Da Bian
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High-Speed Motion Planning for Aerial Swarms in Unknown and Cluttered Environments IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Charbel Toumieh, Dario Floreano
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DiffTune: Auto-Tuning through Auto-Differentiation IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Sheng Cheng, Minkyung Kim, Lin Song, Chengyu Yang, Yiquan Jin, Shenlong Wang, Naira Hovakimyan
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Regret-based Sampling of Pareto Fronts for Multi-Objective Robot Planning Problems IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Alexander Botros, Nils Wilde, Armin Sadeghi, Javier Alonso-Mora, Stephen L. Smith
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Leg State Estimation for Quadruped Robot by Using Probabilistic Model With Proprioceptive Feedback IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Jingyu Sun, Lelai Zhou, Binghou Geng, Yi Zhang, Yibin Li
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Design and Control of SKATER: A Wheeled-Bipedal Robot With High-Speed Turning Robustness and Terrain Adaptability IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Yu Wang, Teng Chen, Xuewen Rong, Guoteng Zhang, Yibin Li, Yaxian Xin
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Multimaterial Soft Gripper Design With Dual-Mode Pinches for Grasping in Confined Spaces IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Feifei Chen, Shitong Chen, Yiqiang Wang, Dechen Li, Zenan Song, Guoying Gu, Xiangyang Zhu
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A Wireless 6-DoF Pose Tracking System Using a Triaxially Anisotropic Soft Magnet IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Suqi Liu, Heng Wang
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Adaptive Admittance Control Strategy for a Robotic Knee Exoskeleton With a Nonlinear Variable Stiffness Actuator IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Bing Chen, Lei Zhou, Bin Zi, Eric Li, Dan Zhang
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Automated Microrobotic Manipulation using Reconfigurable Magnetic Microswarms IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Jialin Jiang, Lidong Yang, Bo Hao, Tiantian Xu, Xinyu Wu, Li Zhang
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Precise Control of Soft Robots Amidst Uncertain Environmental contacts and Forces IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Xinjia Huang, Zihao Yuan, Xinyu Yang, Guoying Gu
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Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters
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Constrained Stein Variational Trajectory Optimization IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Thomas Power, Dmitry Berenson
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Directional Critical Load Index: a Distance-to-Instability Metric for Continuum Robots IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Federico Zaccaria, Edoardo Idá, Sébastien Briot
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Port-Hamiltonian Neural ODE Networks on Lie Groups For Robot Dynamics Learning and Control IEEE Trans. Robot. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Thai Duong, Abdullah Altawaitan, Jason Stanley, Nikolay Atanasov
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Hierarchical Impedance, Force, and Manipulability Control for Robot Learning of Skills IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Chao Zeng, Chenguang Yang, Zhehao Jin, Jianwei Zhang
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Transferring Virtual Surgical Skills to Reality: AI Agents Mastering Surgical Decision-Making in Vascular Interventional Robotics IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Ziyang Mei, Jiayi Wei, Si Pan, Haoyun Wang, Dezhi Wu, Yang Zhao, Gang Liu, Shuxiang Guo
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Performance Enhancement for Rotational Systems Tracking Position-Dependent Periodic Signals IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Lan Zhou, Qin Yang, Dongxu Gao, Jinhua She, Meiliu Li
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Novel mining conveyor monitoring system based on quasi-distributed optical fiber accelerometer array and self-supervised learning Mech. Syst. Signal Process. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Hua Zheng, Huan Wu, Hao Yin, Yuyao Wang, Xinliang Shen, Zheng Fang, Dingjiong Ma, Yun Miao, Li Zhou, Min Yan, Jie Sun, Xiaoli Ding, Changyuan Yu, Chao Lu
Belt conveyors in mining are crucial, with downtime leading to significant losses and safety hazards. Unplanned shutdowns often result from idler failures. To address this, an online monitoring system for continuous idler health assessment is proposed. Considering the large number and dense spatial distribution of idlers over long distances, this work presents a system that utilizes a quasi-distributed
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Multi-Axis Resonant Filter Design using Frequency Response Data applied to Industrial Scan Stage IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Masahiro Mae, Wataru Ohnishi, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Koichi Sakata
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Hitch-Hiking Motion of Multiple Bionic Robotic Remoras With Enhanced Multimodal Locomotion IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatron. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Zhengxing Wu, Lianyi Yu, Jian Wang, Shijie Dai, Min Tan, Junzhi Yu
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Structural superlubricity at homogenous interface of penta-graphene Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Xinqi Zhang, Jiayi Fan, Zichun Cui, Tengfei Cao, Junqin Shi, Feng Zhou, Weimin Liu, Xiaoli Fan
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals layered materials have been widely used as lubricant. Penta-graphene (PG), a 2D carbon allotrope exclusively composed of irregular carbon pentagons has recently been predicted to have superlubricating property. In the present study, by combining the molecular dynamics simulation and first-principles calculations, we investigated the frictional property of PG in both
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C@Ag core–shell structure as lubricating additives towards high efficient lubrication Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Dong Ao, Xiaoqiang Fan, Minhao Zhu
Efficient cooperative lubrication can be achieved via the introduction of core–shell structure lubricant additives with hard core and soft shell, for obtaining the expected anti-wear performance from the structural changes in the friction process. In this study, C@Ag microspheres with a core–shell structure were prepared by the redox method with carbon spheres as the core and Ag nanoparticles as the
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Enhancement of mechanical and tribological performance of Ti–6Al–4V alloy by laser surface alloying with Inconel 625 and SiC precursor materials Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Hao-Ran Cheng, Ki-Hoon Shin, Hong Seok Kim
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Towards direct superlubricity and superlow wear via amino modification of polyhydroxy alcohol solutions Friction (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Qiang Ma, Chengpeng Yan, Rui Yan, Xin Xu, Haifeng Wang