Journal of Robotics
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Application of Intelligent Robot Palletizer Technology in the Optimization of High-Speed Train Operation and Simulation Verification

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Journal of Robotics publishes original research articles as well as review articles on all aspects of automated mechanical devices, from their design and fabrication, to testing and practical implementation.

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Chief Editor Professor Yangmin Li is based at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research interests include robotics, mechatronics, control and automation.

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Attitude Analysis and Evaluation of Camera Based on Planar Double Joint Robot

Planar double-jointed robot is a kind of widely used robot. In the past decades, with the development of science and technology, planar double-jointed robot has a great breakthrough in many aspects, especially in the actual camera and attitude analysis. In recent years, pun-section manipulator has made great progress in technology, but its kinematic characteristics and the human body’s ability to move have a great gap. So, in the moving plane, we need to study how to improve its camera ability to find a more stable and effective camera mode, and to a certain extent, to meet its requirements in complex working conditions. Simulating the pose of two joints, we seek a more stable and effective camera mode to improve its moving speed, expand its moving space, and lay a solid foundation for its application. Planar double-jointed robot is the most representative one at present. It includes machinery, material, electronics, computer, sensor, drive, intelligent control, artificial intelligence, and so on. Because it is closer to the human body, more suitable for people’s work and work, so it does not need to change its environment, so it is regarded as having a high affinity for people’s machinery. Its characteristic is that it has the good adaptability and the flexibility, but the double joint camera’s support discontinuity enables it to be able to adapt each kind of complex situation well. It can not only climb the stairs but also in the messy ground smooth through and also in the inconvenient passage through. The aim of this paper is to analyze the unique advantages and irreplaceable characteristics of the planar double-jointed robot based on the bionic and mechanical research results. This paper analyzes the mechanical technology by means of literature review and actual data analysis. The experimental results show that the biggest difference between the two articulated robots and other robots is that they have two human-like joint motions.

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A Comprehensive Review: Interaction of Appearance and Behavior, Artificial Skin, and Humanoid Robot

The development of robotics is undeniable in recent years. Many developing contries face the growth of the elderly population, it is the premise and impetus for the development of research on humanoid robots to serve humans. Many studies on various aspects of robotics are carried out in different parts of the world. Many novel methods were introduced for the design of the robot’s external appearance, internal mechanisms, and gestures. Recent research on humanoid robots is designed to appear to be copies of the anthropometric indicators of real people, which may affect the security of other people’s identities. Besides, these robots cause a feeling of horror in the user if their appearance is in the position of the uncanny valley. Therefore, these designs need to be carefully considered before fabrication. Artificial skin is studied for various purposes such as ensuring collision safety for industrial users and helping robots to perceive basic tactile sensations. This review consists of the recent literature on the interaction of appearance and behavior of robot interaction, artificial skin, and especially humanoid robots, including appearance, such as android and Geminoid robots. This work can provide a reference for humanoid robot research, including uncanny valley hypotheses, artificial skin, and humanoid robots.

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Mobile Robot Path Planning Based on Improved Particle Swarm Optimization and Improved Dynamic Window Approach

To enable mobile robots to effectively complete path planning in dynamic environments, a hybrid path planning method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and dynamic window approach (DWA) is proposed in this paper. First, an improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) is proposed to enhance the exploration capability and search accuracy of the algorithm by improving the velocity update method and inertia weight. Secondly, a particle initialization strategy is used to increase population diversity, and an addressing local optimum strategy is used to make the algorithm overcome the local optimum. Thirdly, a method of selecting navigation points is proposed to guide local path planning. The robot selects the appropriate navigation points as the target points for local path planning based on the position of the robot and the risk of collision with dynamic obstacles. Finally, an improved dynamic window approach (IDWA) is proposed by combining the velocity obstacle (VO) with the DWA, and the evaluation function of the DWA is improved to enhance trajectory tracking and dynamic obstacle avoidance capabilities. The simulation and experimental results show that IPSO has greater exploration capability and search accuracy; IDWA is more effective in trajectory tracking and dynamic obstacle avoidance; and the hybrid algorithm enables the robot to efficiently complete path planning in dynamic environments.

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Optimization Design of Mountain and Water Landscape of Traditional Mountain Village Based on New Robot Visual Technology

The reasonable application of the random sampling consistent algorithm can be used to eliminate the theoretically possible error points and then complete the initial aiming pairing. The interior points obtained after this algorithm are used to estimate the relative adjacent poses of the new robot in the operation of the least squares method, so as to make certain improvements to the ICP (iterative closest point) algorithm, making it useful for accurate aiming pairing. Finally, by using the optimization method of G20, the posture of the new mobile robot relative to the adjacent position is optimized to a certain extent. In order to reasonably plan and design the landscape of mountain villages, this paper proposes the corresponding solution by analyzing the multidimensional value and landscape design data of traditional mountain villages, which not only needs to adapt to modern economic development but also needs to live in harmony with the natural ecological environment. Taking a village as a case for analysis, the village houses, roads, services, greening, ecology, and other aspects were reconstructed, and then, the detailed landscape design of the multimedia multidimensional resource village was analyzed and implemented.

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Security Risk and Preventive Measures of Multimedia Database System under Remote Control of Network Robot

The rapid development of network technology makes the world enter a new era, but it also brings a variety of severe information security problems, which makes the network security more and more important. Based on the existing literature and information, this paper expounds the current situation of database information system security. In view of the security risks of the media database information, this paper proposes to use the remote control system of the network robot, through sorting out the organizational structure characteristics and technology of multimedia data, establish the security defense system, and try to manage the multimedia data security. This system takes the mobile robot as the control object and adds the vision and ultrasonic transducer for the robot, so that it can carry on the semi-autonomous movement under the control of human. In addition, the host PC is used as the main control terminal to send instructions to the remote robot and receive the feedback data information. The simulation results show that the robot remote control system has good security, can ensure the establishment of database security defense technology system, and has the characteristics of convenient operation, easy to expand, and strong mobility. From the research point of view of this paper, the combination of robotics and multimedia information security is booming and will become a new application prospect.

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Vector Field-Based Guidance for Planar Smooth Path Following of a Small Unmanned Helicopter

This study investigates a guidance method that will allow the small unmanned helicopter to follow the predefined horizontal smooth path. A stable nonlinear guidance law, which needs the information of the inertial position and groundspeed of the helicopter and the implicit function of the desired path, is designed to generate the reference course rate command based on the concept of the vector field. The asymptotic approximation to the desired path with bounded following errors has also been demonstrated by using the Lyapunov stability arguments. Some conditions for guaranteeing the stability have been extended. Simulations on following four types of planar paths, i.e., the square, circular, elliptic, and cubic curve paths, have verified the effectiveness of the proposed method. The predefined square path following performance of the proposed vector field-based method is compared with another two guidance laws, which are based on the PD-like and fuzzy logic control. The comparison shows that the proposed method can guide the helicopter to follow the predefined path most smoothly. The maximum overshoot by using the proposed method is less than 0.016 meters, while those by using the other two methods are all larger than 0.80 meters. Moreover, the vector field-based method will cost the least time for the vehicle to converge to the predefined path.

Journal of Robotics
 Journal metrics
See full report
Acceptance rate24%
Submission to final decision47 days
Acceptance to publication22 days
CiteScore3.700
Journal Citation Indicator0.440
Impact Factor-
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