An Approach to Pipe Image Interpretation Based Condition Assessment for Automatic Pipe Inspection by John Mashford, David Marlow, Stewart Burn

“…This is carried out through the use of inspection systems which usually consist of an image acquisition device attached to a mobile robotic platform. Complete or partial automation of image interpretation could increase the efficiency and objectivity of pipe inspection. …”
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Privacy-preserving ADP for secure tracking control of AVRs against unreliable communication by Kun Zhang, Kezhen Han, Zhijian Hu, Guoqiang Tan

“…In this study, we developed an encrypted guaranteed-cost tracking control scheme for autonomous vehicles or robots (AVRs), by using the adaptive dynamic programming technique. …”
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Fault-Tolerant Partition Resolvability of Cyclic Networks by Kamran Azhar, Sohail Zafar, Agha Kashif, Michael Onyango Ojiema

“…Figuring resolving partition of the graph is an intriguing inquest in graph theory as it has many applications such as sensor design, compound classification in chemistry, robotic navigation, and Internet network. The partition dimension is a graph parameter akin to the concept of metric dimension, and fault-tolerant partition dimension is an advancement in the line of research of partition dimension of the graph. …”
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Urban Surface Temperature Reduction via the Urban Aerosol Direct Effect: A Remote Sensing and WRF Model Sensitivity Study by Menglin Jin, J. Marshall Shepherd, Weizhong Zheng

“…By combining National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) observations in large cities with Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulations, we find that the aerosol direct reduction of surface insolation ranges from 40–100Wm−2, depending on aerosol loading and land-atmosphere conditions. …”
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Adaptive Neural Network Motion Control of Manipulators with Experimental Evaluations by S. Puga-Guzmán, J. Moreno-Valenzuela, V. Santibáñez

“…These experimental evaluations were carried in two different mechanical systems: a horizontal two degrees-of-freedom robot and a vertical one degree-of-freedom arm which is affected by the gravitational force. …”
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Flocking Behavior of Boids Driven by Hyperchaotic MACM System by Rosa Martha López-gutiérrez, Lılıana Cardoza Avendaño, Ana Medina, Cesar Cruz Hernández

“…The measures proposed herein, therefore, may have the potential to predict, control, and exemplify the behavior of group intelligence study systems that occur in nature, allowing the implementation of these systems in groups of robots through the implementation of hyperchaotic trajectories in the future, to obtain greater speed and efficiency, obstacle and collisions avoidance in their flights.…”
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Effective Inertial Hand Gesture Recognition Using Particle Filtering Based Trajectory Matching by Zuocai Wang, Bin Chen, Jin Wu

“…Hand gesture recognition has become more and more popular in applications like intelligent sensing, robot control, smart guidance, and so on. In this paper, an inertial sensor based hand gesture recognition method is proposed. …”
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Managing Risk in the Design of Modular Systems for an Autonomous Shuttle by Thomas H. Drage, Kieran Quirke-Brown, Lemar Haddad, Zhihui Lai, Kai Li Lim, Thomas Braunl

“…Identifying limitations of the Robot Operating System (ROS) framework, we incorporate our own control measures for autonomous, unsupervised operation with enhanced intelligence. …”
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Guidance Navigation and Control for Autonomous Multiple Spacecraft Assembly: Analysis and Experimentation by Riccardo Bevilacqua, Marcello Romano, Fabio Curti, Andrew P. Caprari, Veronica Pellegrini

“…The proposed approaches are successfully validated via hardware-in-the-loop experimentation, using four autonomous three-degree-of-freedom robotic spacecraft simulators, floating on a flat floor.…”
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Modeling and Optimization for Automobile Mixed Assembly Line in Industry 4.0 by Lixiong Gong, Bingqian Zou, Zhiqun Kan

“…Smart factory is composed of network that includes production equipment, robot, conveyor, and logistics system. According to the characteristics of the mixed flow assembly, a simulation platform of automobile mixed flow assembly is built based on industry 4.0 in the paper, which operates and manages automobile assembly, logistics warehouse, and CPS effectively. …”
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Antiswing Control and Trajectory Planning for Offshore Cranes: Design and Experiments by Ronny Landsverk, Jing Zhou, Daniel Hagen

“…The method was tested on a Comau robot mounted on a Stewart platform at the Norwegian Motion Laboratory. …”
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Residual clip after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy surgery and radiotherapy. A case report by Ismael Leblanch Hernández

“…Laparoscopic and robotic radical prostatectomy are two treatment options for prostate cancer. …”
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Investigation on Evolutionary Synthesis of Movement Commands by Zuzana Oplatková, Ivan Zelinka

“…This paper describes a setting of an optimal trajectory for a robot (originally designed as an artificial ant on Santa Fe trail) solved by means of analytic programming. …”
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Management of Recurrent Rectourethral Fistula by York Mason Posterior Transrectal Transsphincteric Approach by Fahri Yetişir, A. Ebru Şarer, H. Zafer Acar, Omer Parlak, Gokhan Osmanoglu, Gulen Karalova

“…Several surgical techniques have been described including transabdominal, transanal, transperineal, combined abdominoperineal, anterior and posterior transsphincteric, transsacral, laparoscopic, robotic, and endoscopic minimally invasive approaches. …”
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DC MOTOR ANGULAR POSITION CONTROL SYSTEM USING ARDUINO PLATFORM by Dragos-Ioan Matei, Alexandru Negroiu, Gabriela Bucur

“…This technical solution, using PID controller, can be applied for robotic arm position control system and many other industrial applications.…”
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A comprehensive review of urinary tract fistulas: the evolution of etiologies, surgical techniques, and contemporary outcomes by Noah Nigro, Gary Shahinyan, Shujian Lin, Rohan G. Bhalla, Brian J. Flynn

“…This focuses on the shift from open surgery to minimally invasive techniques, particularly the growing utilization of robot-assisted laparoscopic (RAL) approaches. This review emphasizes the growing role of RAL surgery in treating UTFs, citing its advantages of reduced blood loss, low recurrence rates, and decreased postoperative complications while acknowledging challenges such as limited access to the RAL platform and longer surgical times. …”
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Exact makespan minimization of unrelated parallel machines by Åblad, Edvin, Strömberg, Ann-Brith, Spensieri, Domenico

“…Our original application arises from the automotive assembly process where tasks needs to be distributed among several robots. This involves the solutions of several $R||C_\text{max}$ instances, which proved hard for a MILP solver since the makespan objective induces weak LP relaxation bounds. …”
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Design of Unmanned Vehicle System for Disaster Detection by Ming-Chih Chen, Chien-Hsing Chen, Ming-Sheng Huang, Jheng-Yu Ciou, Guo-Tai Zhang

“…The vehicle is also equipped with a video surveillance camera to monitor the scene and find injured persons. A robotic arm is mounted on the head of the vehicle to grip objects and gather samples. …”
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Exponential Fields Formulation for WMR Navigation by Edgar A. Martínez-García, Rafael Torres-Cordoba

“…In this manuscript, an autonomous navigation algorithm for wheeled mobile robots (WMR) operating in dynamic environments (indoors or structured outdoors) is formulated. …”
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Reinforcement Learning-Based Autonomous Soccer Agents: A Study in Multi-Agent Coordination and Strategy Development by Biplov Paneru, Bishwash Paneru, Ramhari Poudyal, Khem Poudyal

“…This research investigates the use of Q-learning in the context of training autonomous agents for robotic soccer, a complex and dynamic arena that necessitates strategic planning, coordination, and adaptation. …”
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