Over the last few years, communication latency has been a major hurdle for most of the
applications deployed in different network domains. During this era, a number of …

Industries are currently struggling with ageing workforce in modern production systems
associated with Industry 4.0. The industrial socio-demographic problem is more and more …

Mobile manipulation tasks are one of the key challenges in the field of search and rescue
(SAR) robotics requiring robots with flexible locomotion and manipulation abilities. Since the …

Although robotic telemanipulation has always been a key technology for the nuclear
industry, little advancement has been seen over the last decades. Despite complex remote …

Robots have taken the place of human operators in hazardous and challenging jobs
requiring high dexterity in manipulation, and robots with skin for force and tactile sensing …

Contamination with radioactive or chemical substances can have serious consequences for
humans and the environment. For this reason, thorough decontamination is of great …

This paper presents a comparative study of teleoperation methods of robotic manipulators
aiming at application to the decommissioning operation of the primary containment vessel …

This article investigates visual servoing for a hydraulically actuated dual-arm robot, in which
the user selects the object of interest from an on-screen image, whilst the computer control …

Remote teleoperation of robots can broaden the reach of domain specialists across a wide
range of industries such as home maintenance, health care, light manufacturing, and …

Inertial parameters characterise an object's motion under applied forces, and can provide
strong priors for planning and control of robotic actions to manipulate the object. However …