4 accepted papers
This paper proposes a model-free steering control method to address the path tracking challenges of Hydraulic Center-articulated Scooptrams (HCS) in narrow underground mining environments. Due to the nonlinear and time-delay characteristics of the hydraulic steering system, the HCS exhibits response
When entering an unfamiliar environment, animals usually sweep off their surroundings to identify points of interest. In search and rescue robotics, autonomous exploration requires both coarse mapping of unknown areas and detailed target detection, which poses a significant challenge in balancing th
Identifying traversable areas is a critical task for unmanned vehicles exploring safely through unstructured environments. In practice, the ambiguity in perceiving terrain traversability usually brings great challenges for autonomous exploration in unknown and uneven terrain, which often leads to co…
This study presents the technique of robotic high-speed scooping: rapidly picking an object lying on a support surface by making contact with the object's open top face and the bottom face that is hidden in contact with the support surface. Essential to high-speed scooping is thus to make suitable d…