Robotics, Vol. 13, Pages 76: Porcospino Flex: A Bio-Inspired Single-Track Robot with a 3D-Printed, Flexible, Compliant Vertebral Column Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics13050076 Authors: Shahab Edin Nodehi Luca Bruzzone Mohammadreza Lalegani Dezaki Ali Zolfagharian Mahdi Bodaghi This paper is focused on the design and development...

Robotics, Vol. 13, Pages 75: Multi-Robot Task Planning for Efficient Battery Disassembly in Electric Vehicles Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics13050075 Authors: Cansu Erdogan Cesar Alan Contreras Rustam Stolkin Alireza Rastegarpanah With the surging interest in electric vehicles (EVs), there is a need for advancements in the development...

Robotics, Vol. 13, Pages 74: Automated Grasp Planning and Finger Design Space Search Using Multiple Grasp Quality Measures Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics13050074 Authors: Roshan Kumar Hota Gaoyuan Liu Bieke Decraemer Barry Swevels Sofie Burggraeve Tom Verstraten Bram Vanderborght Greet Van de Perre As the industry shifts...

Robotics, Vol. 13, Pages 73: An Aerial Robotic Missing-Person Search in Urban Settings—A Probabilistic Approach Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics13050073 Authors: Cameron Haigh Goldie Nejat Beno Benhabib Autonomous robotic teams have been proposed for a variety of lost-person searches in wilderness and urban settings. In the latter scenarios,...

Robotics, Vol. 13, Pages 72: Necessary Conditions for Running through a Flange by Using Planetary-Geared Magnetic Wheels Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics13050072 Authors: Masaru Tanida Kosuke Ono Takehiro Shiba Yogo Takada To discuss and consider the necessary conditions for magnetic-wheeled robots with planetary-geared magnetic...

Robotics, Vol. 13, Pages 71: Visual Servoing Architecture of Mobile Manipulators for Precise Industrial Operations on Moving Objects Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics13050071 Authors: Javier González Huarte Aitor Ibarguren Although the use of articulated robots and AGVs is common in many industrial sectors such as automotive or aeronautics,...