Currently, a large number of industrial robots have been deployed to replace or assist
humans to perform various repetitive and dangerous manufacturing tasks. However, based …

Collaborative robots (cobots) have been increasingly adopted in industries to facilitate
human–robot collaboration. Despite this, it is challenging to program cobots for collaborative …

Behavior Trees (BTs) provide a way to structure the behavior of an artificial agent such as a
robot or a non-player character in a computer game. Traditional design methods, such as …

Nowadays, numerous companies and industries introduce recycling processes in their
production, aiming to increase the sustainable use of the planet's natural resources …

Abstract Behavior Trees (BTs) were invented as a tool to enable modular AI in computer
games, but have received an increasing amount of attention in the robotics community in the …

Background Meat is one of the main sources of protein in human nutrition. During recent
years meat production volume has been showing significant growth worldwide. The total …

Robots are becoming interactive and robust enough to be adopted outside laboratories and
in industrial scenarios as well as interacting with humans in social activities. However, the …

There is a growing interest in Behavior Trees (BTs) as a tool to describe and implement
robot behaviors. BTs were devised in the video game industry and their adoption in robotics …

In this article, we propose FlexHRC+, a hierarchical human-robot cooperation architecture
designed to provide collaborative robots with an extended degree of autonomy when …

The research reported in this paper proposes a new approach to collaborative robots that
aims at improving the simplicity and efficiency of the programming task for non-technical …