Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design and implement a team of kid size humanoid soccer robots conforming to RoboCup Humanoid league. Design/methodology/approach – The project is described in two main parts: hardware and software. The hardware section consists of the mechanical...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve the traditional bug algorithms for the navigation of mobile robots in unknown environments by considering the limitations in previous works such as generating long path, limited to static environments as well as ignoring implementation issues....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the methodology to the robust stability analysis of a vision‐based control loop in an uncalibrated environment. The type of uncertainties considered is the parametric uncertainties. The approach adopted in this paper utilizes quadratic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a maximum speed algorithm for serial palletizing robots, which guarantees relatively low system modeling requirements and can be easily implemented in actual applications. Design/methodology/approach – Operation speed is an important index of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a control system for a heavy duty industrial robot, including both the control structure and algorithm, which was designed and tested. Design/methodology/approach – An industrial PC with TwinCAT real‐time system is chosen as the motion...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a robotic system to feed aquatic organisms and measure water physicochemical parameters in experimental aquaculture ponds. Design/methodology/approach – A dispatcher unit dispenses a precise amount of food and control panel software schedules...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present work which is a part of the Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops project (CASC). Desired trajectory tracking objective has been previously performed by using a non‐model based approach in this project. Long distance autonomous drive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the locomotion performance of all‐terrain rovers employing rocker‐type suspension system. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, a robot with advanced mobility features is presented and its locomotion performance is evaluated,...

Purpose – Target tracking systems are generally computationally intensive and require expensive and power‐hungry visual sensors. On the other hand, the existing target tracking control approaches fail to track the target swiftly and accurately when the mobile robot moves in the diversified...