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David Guerra-Zubiaga, Melody Colani, Gershom Richards, Katrina Cavens, Logan Block, George Olliff, Murat Aksu
Data, Information, and knowledge models are vital research topics explored in recent years to support advanced manufacturing decisions through important systems. Today, there are several tools that assist in modeling these parameters, one of which is known
Digital twins are poised to improve the way products are designed, manufactured, and managed throughout their life cycle. However, implementing digital twins for small and medium manufacturers (SMM) has been a challenge mainly due to lack of resources and
Guodong Shao, Deogratias Kibira, Simon P. Frechette
Recently, digital twins are becoming more prevalent in a wide range of industries such as manufacturing, construction, smart city, healthcare, business for various purposes including observing, predicting, optimizing, and controlling. However, because
The surging demand for industrial automation is propelling the use of robots, with emerging trends like autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robotic arms swiftly gaining widespread popularity. Simultaneously, a growing focus is on simplifying the
Leandro Buss Becker, Anthony Downs, Craig I. Schlenoff, Justin Albrecht, Zeid Kootbally, Angelo Ferrando, Rafael Cardoso, Michael Fisher
The ''Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition'' (ARIAC) is an international robotic competition carried out in a simulated factory floor. ARIAC's competitors must perform assembly and kitting tasks by means of controlling four AGVs, one floor
Andrew Spielberg, Jeremy Marvel, Dylan Shah, Jennifer Case, Robert Baines
To avoid facing a reproducibility crisis that will undermine the recent rapid pace of research and hamper widespread adoption, the field of soft robotics needs to establish best practices and uphold rigorous reporting.
Socio-economic forces in conjunction with the emergence and proliferation of technical advances in both hardware and software are changing the landscape of manufacturing robotics. This document discusses the factors that are altering the development and
Marek Franaszek, Prem Rachakonda, Pavel Piliptchak, Kamel S. Saidi
Segmenting images containing many objects stacked in unstructured piles is a challenging and vital task in robotic bin picking applications. Objects in such images are congested and occluded but, nevertheless, must be accurately segmented to calculate
Collaborative robot tasks in manufacturing often involve manually placing and recording the robot in various positions throughout the intended task. However, existing methods for programming robot have been shown to cause physical strain and confusion for
Advances in robotics research have begun incorporating non-traditional materials, such as rubbers and elastomers, into the structure of robots giving them new capabilities. This inclusion of soft materials has highlighted a number of metrology challenges
The applications of digital twins continue to grow with the volume and variety of data collected. These data support the modeling of function, behavior, and structure of a physical element. However, successfully building a digital twin requires data
Omar Aboul-Enein, Henry Medeiros, Mili Shah, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Roger Bostelman, Ann Virts
Mobile manipulators, which are robotic systems integrating an automatic or autonomous mobile base with a manipulator, can potentially enhance automation in many industrial and unstructured environments. Namely, large-scale manufacturing processes, typical
Robots excel at manipulating objects with 6 degree of freedom movement. A combination of well-defined kinematics, optimized control loops, and robust mechanical architecture make robots a versatile and capable platform for a range of applications where
Due to self-occlusions in 3D point clouds acquired with line-of-sight sensors, an incomplete representation of an object's surface is used in fitting a CAD (computer-aided design) model to the data. For certain types of object geometry, CAD pose fitted
Collaborative robot, also called Cobot, with the advantages of being safer and more cost-effective, is playing an important role in factory 4.0. Being more flexible, cobot has been deployed in a wide variety of domains, for example, machine tending
Leandro Buss Becker, Anthony Downs, Craig I. Schlenoff, Justin Albrecht, Zeid Kootbally, Angelo Ferrando, Rafael Cordoso, Michael Fisher
The "Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition" (ARIAC) is an international robotic competition carried out in a simulated ROS2/Gazebo factory floor. Competitors control a robot, overcoming a range of agility challenges in this simulated
Accurate registration of Cartesian coordinate systems is vital to facilitate advanced metrological solutions of industrial robots in production environments. Conducting coordinate registration between industrial robots and their metrological systems
Omar Aboul-Enein, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Roger Bostelman, Ann Virts
Mobile manipulators, which integrate a robotic manipulator with an automatic--autonomous mobile base, have the potential to augment automation by combining the capability of navigation with complex manipulation to support unstructured and dynamic
Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Ann Virts, Roger Bostelman, Soocheol Yoon, Amaan Rahman, Lucia Rhode, Nishat Ahmed, Mili Shah
In recent years, exoskeleton test methods for industrial exoskeletons have evolved to include simulated laboratory and field environments. Physiological, kinematic and kinetic metrics, as well as subjective surveys are used to evaluate exoskeleton
Building a digital twin of a manufacturing system can positively impact its performance with respect to productivity, energy consumption, product quality, and cost. However, leveraging available methods and tools to build a digital twin has been a
Rick Candell, Karl Montgomery, Mohamed Hany, Susruth Sudhakaran, Dave Cavalcanti
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is emerging as a viable means to achieving deterministic quality of service (QoS) communications within mission critical industrial applications such as feedback control systems, robotics, and precision sensing and actuation