Multisensor perception has an important role in robotics and autonomous systems, providing
inputs for critical functions including obstacle detection and localization. It is starting to …

The internet of things, based on smart-wireless sensor networks, is more and more used in
buildings to monitor and improve their performance in terms of thermal comfort and power …

This comprehensive review article delves into the intricate realm of fault-tolerant control
(FTC) schemes tailored for robotic manipulators. Our exploration spans the historical …

In future smart environments, mobile applications will find a dynamically varying number of
networked sensors that offer their measurement data. This additional information supports …

The extensive and reliable perception of the environment is essential for many emerging
control applications. Examples comprise intelligent cars, smart payloads and handling …

This paper presents a fault tolerance architecture for data fusion mechanisms that tolerates
hardware faults in the sensors and software faults in the data fusion. After introducing the …

The transducer process of a sensor is interference-prone to environmental conditions or
external disturbances depending on sensor type, measurement procedure etc. Dependable …

Today, direct interaction between humans and robots is limited, although the combination of
human flexibility and robots power enables a growing productivity. The problem for humans …

Indoor hovering objects such as quadrotors need to be controlled continuously to hold their
position in space. In order to support fully autonomous flights of these copters, the necessary …

The position of a mobile robot can be determined very precise today. A large number of high
level sensor systems in combination with processing algorithms running on powerful …