Abstract—Robotics research often focuses on increasing robot capability. If end users do not perceive these increases, however, user acceptance may not improve. In this work, we explore the idea of perceived capability and how it relates to true capability, differentiating between physical

by students at the university. The primary engineering mission objectives are to test a simple dual-arm robotic system and use the robots for satellite-exterior inspection and inertia-property estimation. The paper provides an overview of the concept design of the satellite, focusing on the structure

Although personal robots hold great promise, they face many barriers to being accepted and adopted in our homes [1]–[3]. As these robots are expected to perform personal tasks, their burden of trustworthiness is far greater than that

Abstract — Humans have at some point learned an abstraction of the capabilities of their arms. By just looking at the scene they can decide which places or objects they can easily reach and which are difficult to approach. Possessing a similar abstraction of a robot arm’s capabilities in its

cognitive agents, in the framework of an interactivist-constructivist cognitive model of science. Intelligent robots, by virtue of having different sensorimotor capabilities, may overcome the fundamental limitations of human science and provide important technological innovations. Mathematics

Abstract: In harsh or dangerous environments, robots can lose function in multiple sensors and effectors over the mission, thus reducing their overall capability. If the capabilities provided by these sensors/effectors are necessary for mission completion, having an adaptive system that can

This article presents a project that aims at constructing a biologically inspired amphibious snake-like robot. The robot is designed to be capable of anguilliform swimming like the lamprey in water and serpentine locomotion like a snake on ground. Both the structure and the controller

This paper provides a tutorial introduction to visual servo control of robotic manipulators. Since the topic spans many disciplines our goal is limited to providing a basic conceptual framework. We begin by reviewing the prerequisite topics from robotics and computer vision, including a brief

ABSTRACT Robot Capability Analysis (RCA) is a process in which force/motion capabilities of a manipulator are evaluated. It is very useful in both the design and operational phases of robotics. Traditionally, ellipsoids and polytopes are used to both graphically and numerically represent

Abstract-In this paper, we propose DULEX-II, a wearable hand robot capable of assisting stroke survivors with hand function rehabilitation. DULEX-II is a robotic orthosis that has three degrees of freedom for assisting motions of the wrist, and all fingers, excluding the thumb. Each exoskeleton