1. Modelling and animation of crawler UGV's caterpillars is a complicated task, which has not been completely resolved in ROS/Gazebo simulators. In this paper, we proposed an approximation of track-terrain interaction of ...

© 2017 IEEE. Robot simulations nowadays provide significant support in testing new algorithms for robotic systems for a broad area of tasks, including navigation, mapping, and SLAM. Within a simulation, special attention ...

The COVID-19 pandemic keeps spreading across the world and, while national governments concentrate on lockdowns and restrictions to mitigate the disaster, advanced technologies could be employed more widely to fight the ...

Stable and robust path planning and movement in ground mobile robots require a combination of accuracy and low latency in their state estimation. However, state estimation algorithms must provide these qualities under the ...

© 2017 IEEE. A fiducial marker system is a system of unique 2D (planar) marker, which is placed in an environment and automatically will be detected with a camera with a help of a corresponding detection algorithm. Application ...

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Autonomous exploration and coverage in 3D environments recently has became a rapidly developing research field. Emerging 3D reconstruction methods, designed specifically for exploration ...

The problem of determining the position of a robot and at the same time building the map of the environment is referred to as SLAM. A SLAM system generally outputs the estimated trajectory (a sequence of poses) and the ...

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Humanoid robots are created to facilitate many facets of daily life, both in scenarios when humans and robots collaborate and when robot completely replaces human. One of such more ...

The paper offers an architecture and a preliminary design of a special training computer program, which targets to improve analytical medical skills of graduate students. The article includes presenting computer programs ...

Smartphones are becoming more and more high-performance devices every year, which allows to use them in new types of applications, including control and automation. This paper presents an Android OS based control tool that ...