Assistive mobile robot for industrial and academic applications

Autonomous Robots for Services—State of the Art, Challenges, and Research Areas

“…One camera refers to the use of 2D laser devices, as in [ 35 ], which aimed to identify obstacles and the region of interest. In [ 36 ], Ruwanthika used this method for robot localization, and in [ 37 ], this approach was used for scanning people in unknown environments, in which the scans were focused first on face identification and later on the body. Ge [ 38 ] dealt with the subject of children with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) by proposing a robot in a therapy room that identifies children’s interests or disinterest during treatment by analyzing their movements as engagement or disengagement patterns.…”

“…A challenge that has arisen in several fields concerning the activity of autonomous robots is the development of specific algorithms to improve the safety and efficiency level in their perception of a route without colliding with certain fixed or mobile obstacles. This has been experimentally tested in activities in hospitals [ 10 , 85 , 86 , 89 ], in industrial spaces [ 36 , 69 , 70 , 88 ], and when road driving [ 53 , 55 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ]. Another raised issue is based on the scenario where the results are hard to obtain due to the deficient collaboration between autonomous robots when they are manipulating certain objects.…”

A Software Products Line as Educational Tool to Learn Industrial Robots Programming with Arduino

“…In particular, the construction of IRS in an educational environment needs the realization of prototypes, allowing students to understand the domain and its main theoretical and practical foundations [4]. These prototypes usually use microcontrollers (Arduino) to provide the functionality to electronic devices [5], which allows to emulate software development in the industry.…”