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Anh Vu Le, Rizuwana Parween, Rajesh Elara Mohan, Nguyen Huu Khanh Nhan + 1 more
'Nguyen Huu Khanh Nhan' 'Raihan Enjikalayil Abdulkader'] Completed area coverage planning (CACP) plays an essential role in various fields of robotics, such as area exploration, search, rescue, security, cleaning, and maintenance. Tiling robots with the ability to change their shape is a feasible solution to enhance…
Anh Vu Le, Prabakaran Veerajagadheswar, Phone Thiha Kyaw, Mohan Rajesh Elara + 2 more
'Mohan Rajesh Elara' 'Nguyen Huu Khanh Nhan' 'Gregor Klancar'] One of the critical challenges in deploying the cleaning robots is the completion of covering the entire area. Current tiling robots for area coverage have fixed forms and are limited to cleaning only certain areas. The reconfigurable system is the creative…
Ning Tan, Nishaan Brahmananthan, Rajesh Elara Mohan, Veerajagadheswar Prabakaran
'Veerajagadheswar Prabakaran'] Games and toys have been serving as entertainment tools to humans for a long period of time. While except for entertainment, they can also trigger inspiration and enhance productivity in many other domains such as healthcare and general workplaces. The concept of the game is referred to a…
Koppaka Ganesh Sai Apuroop, Anh Vu Le, Mohan Rajesh Elara, Bing J. Sheu + 1 more
'Bing J. Sheu' 'Sergio Marín'] One of the essential attributes of a cleaning robot is to achieve complete area coverage. Current commercial indoor cleaning robots have fixed morphology and are restricted to clean only specific areas in a house. The results of maximum area coverage are sub-optimal in this case. Tiling…
Oren Salzman, Kiril Solovey, Dan Halperin
— We study the problem of motion-planning for freeflying multi-link robots and develop a sampling-based algorithm that is specifically tailored for the task. Our approach exploits the fact that the set of configurations for which the robot is self-collision free is independent of the obstacles or of the exact placement…
J. García, Michael Yannuzzi, Peter Krämer, Christian Rieck + 1 more
'Aaron T. Becker'] Abstract— This paper investigates the use of a samplingbased approach, the RRT*, to reconfigure a 2D set of connected tiles in complex environments, where multiple obstacles might be present. Since the target application is automated building of discrete, cellular structures using mobile robots…
Wangyi Liu, Dasharadhan Mahalingam, Fanru Gao, Ci-Jyun Liang + 1 more
In this paper, we study the problem of manipulation skill acquisition for performing construction activities consisting of repetitive tasks (e.g., building a wall or installing ceiling tiles). Our approach involves setting up a simulated construction activity in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment, where the user can…
Sándor P. Fekete, Eike Niehs, Christian Scheffer, Arne Schmidt
We consider methods for connected reconfigurations by finite automate in the socalled hybrid or Robot-on-Tiles model of programmable matter, in which a number of simple robots move on and rearrange an arrangement of passive tiles in the plane that form polyomino shapes, making use of a supply of additional tiles that…
Takashi Hayashi, Takeshi Tomomizu, Takamichi Sushida, Masakazu Akiyama + 2 more
Tilling patterns are observed in many biological structures. Hexagonal tilling, commonly observed in the compound eyes of wild-type Drosophila, is dominant in nature; this dominance can probably be attributed to physical restrictions such as structural robustness, minimal boundary length, and space filling efficiency.…
William R. Johnson, Xiaonan Huang, Shiyang Lu, Kun Wang + 3 more
'Joran Booth' 'Kostas E. Bekris' 'Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio'] Future robots will navigate perilous, remote environments with resilience and autonomy. Researchers have proposed building robots with compliant bodies to enhance robustness, but this approach often sacrifices the autonomous capabilities expected of rigid…
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The emergence of affordable and reliable 3D printers has enabled laboratories to optimize setups, print custom parts, accelerate research, and rapidly prototype. A new movement has emerged in the past decade, where 3D printers are repurposed as laboratory-specific robots. There are three distinct approaches in the…
Tamara C. Chan, Mohit Rastogi, Micah X. Williams, Samuel Zhang + 20 more
Microglial tiling—the phenomenon of consistent cell-to-cell distances and non-overlapping processes—is regarded as a qualitative indicator of homeostasis, but mechanisms of microglial tiling are unknown. We used cell-surface proximity labeling and mass spectrometry to profile the microglial cell-surface proteome in an…
Yordan Tsvetkov, Parvez Alam
This paper is concerned with the design, manufacture and validation of ‘Poka’, a novel millimetre-scale necro-robot aimed at bridging the performance gap between miniature robots and insects. To create Poka, we use the exoskeleton of a deceased five-horned rhinoceros beetle (Eupatorus gracilicornis) as a mechanical…
Kartik Suryavanshi, Rama Vadapalli, Praharsha Budharaja, Abhishek Sarkar + 1 more
'Abhishek Sarkar' 'Madhava Krishna'] Abstract— This paper introduces the Omnidirectional Tractable Three Module Robot for traversing inside complex pipe networks. The robot consists of three omnidirectional modules fixed 120° apart circumferentially which can rotate about their axis allowing holonomic motion of the…