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New Trends in Mechatronics and Robotic Systems
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New Trends in Mechatronics and Robotic Systems

A special issue of Applied System Innovation (ISSN 2571-5577).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 5631

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. José Gonçalves

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CeDRI—Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, School of Technology and Management Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Santa Apolónia Campus, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
Interests: localization; navigation; control and prototyping of mobile robots
Prof. Dr. Paulo Costa

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1. FEUP—Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
2. INESC TEC—Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, CRIIS—Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems, Campus of FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: simulation; path planning; artificial vision; mobile robot localization and navigation; obstacle avoidance and perception
Prof. Dr. Vítor H. Pinto

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DIGI2 - Digital and Intelligent Industry Lab, Research Center for Systems and Technologies (SYSTEC), FEUP - Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: software; robotics; control; prototyping; mobile robotics; cyber-physical systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on new trends in mechatronics engineering, through the many learning stages, from secondary school experiments to the development of industrial applications, that require different robustness requisites and, inevitably, different implementation skills. Mechatronic applications are common in Automation, Control, and Robotics, these being the topics of focus for the proposed Special Issue, although mechatronics is not exclusive to these areas.

Educational robotics can play an important role in mechatronics engineering education, due to the inherent multi-disciplinary concepts that are involved, motivating students towards technological areas. It also plays an important role in research and development, because it is expected that the outcomes that will emerge here will later be transferred to other application areas, such as service robots and manufacturing.

Considering that the cost is always a key indicator, in addition to the application performance. Each application has its own requirements that must be fulfilled at the lowest possible cost, without having a performance compromise. Different methodologies and technologies allow for cost-reduction in the development and deployment of mechatronic applications, and these different approaches must be researched and disseminated.

Prof. Dr. José Gonçalves
Prof. Dr. Paulo Costa
Prof. Dr. Vítor H. Pinto
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied System Innovation is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • educational robots
  • industrial applications
  • robot competitions
  • service robots
  • new trends in robot prototyping
  • high-performance low-cost robots
  • 3D printed robot prototypes
  • Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone and other solutions to control robots
  • performance evaluation and benchmarking
  • rapid prototyping for robots
  • modular robotics
  • robotic simulators

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Enabling End-Users in Designing and Executing of Complex, Collaborative Robotic Processes
by Helmut Zörrer, Georg Weichhart, Mathias Schmoigl Tonis, Till Bieg, Matthias Propst, Dominik Schuster, Nadine Sturm, Chloé Nativel, Gabriele Salomon, Felix Strohmeier, Andreas Sackl, Michael Eberle and Andreas Pichler
Appl. Syst. Innov. 2023, 6(3), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/asi6030056 - 12 May 2023
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Over the last years, capabilities of robotic systems have quantitatively and qualitatively improved. But going beyond isolated robotic systems, the integration and interoperability of robotic capabilities in complex work processes remains a major challenge. This lack of tools to integrate robots needs to [...] Read more.
Over the last years, capabilities of robotic systems have quantitatively and qualitatively improved. But going beyond isolated robotic systems, the integration and interoperability of robotic capabilities in complex work processes remains a major challenge. This lack of tools to integrate robots needs to be addressed on technical, semantic and organizational level. In the ROBxTASK research project, we developed an approach to support cooperation between different types of users in order to enable domain experts, with no robotic know-how, to work with robot-assisted workflows. By engineering robotic skills at a useful and usable level of abstraction for experts in different domains, we aim to increase re-usability of these skills on two different levels, (robotic) device level, and on level of application specific workflows. The researched prototype consists of a web platform, which allows (a) engineers to register (robotic) devices and the implemented skills of the devices, (b) domain experts to use a graphical task design environment to create workflows across multiple robotic devices and lastly (c) robot co-workers to download and execute the workflow code in a local environment with digital twins or real robots. Additionally skills and workflows can be shared across organisations. Initial user studies have shown that the visual programming environment is accessible and the defined skill-set is easy to understand even for domain experts that are inexperienced in the field of robotics. Full article
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Improvement of the Sensor Capability of the NAO Robot by the Integration of a Laser Rangefinder
by Vincenzo Bonaiuto and Andrea Zanela
Appl. Syst. Innov. 2022, 5(6), 105; https://doi.org/10.3390/asi5060105 - 24 Oct 2022
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This paper focuses on integrating a laser rangefinder system with an anthropomorphic robot (NAO6—Aldebaran, United Robotics Group) to improve its sensory and operational capabilities, as part of a larger project concerning the use of these systems in “assisted living” activities. This additional sensor [...] Read more.
This paper focuses on integrating a laser rangefinder system with an anthropomorphic robot (NAO6—Aldebaran, United Robotics Group) to improve its sensory and operational capabilities, as part of a larger project concerning the use of these systems in “assisted living” activities. This additional sensor enables the robot to reconstruct its surroundings by integrating new information with that identified by the on-board sensors. Thus, it can identify more objects in a scene and detect any obstacles along its navigation path. This feature will improve the efficiency of navigation algorithms, increasing movement competence in environments where people live and work. Indeed, these environments are characterized by details and specificities within a range of distances that best suit the new robot design. The paper presents a laser finder integration project that consists of two different parts, which are as follows: the former, the mechanical part, provided the NAO robot’s head; the latter, the software, provided the robot with proper software drivers to enable integration of the new sensor with its acquisition system. Some experimental results in an actual environment are presented. Full article
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