Purpose – The aim of this paper is to describe how to make a co‐operative motion plan for a dual manipulator system to measure the radioactivity of wastes produced in decommissioning a nuclear power plant. Design/methodology/approach – The system consists of two tasks: the main task...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present the non‐model‐based multiple impedance control (NMIC) law for object manipulation tasks, which can be implemented with reasonable limited on‐line computations. Design/methodology/approach – The multiple impedance control (MIC) is a...

Purpose – Autonomous robot‐based finishing of surfaces with a reduction of the programming effort can be achieved by teaching the desired trajectory locally in the object reference frame. Thus, the flexibility of the programmed task increases and also moving surfaces can be finished. This...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a simple and cheap calibration method to improve the odometry accuracy and to present an alternative method for the control of the path produced by an already existed path planning method. Design/methodology/approach – Through the integration of...

Measures of complexity are of immediate interest for the field of autonomous robots both as a means to classify the behavior and as an objective function for the autonomous development of robot behavior. In the present paper we consider predictive information in sensor space as a measure for the...

This chapter illustrates the behavior of Zero-Intelligence (ZI) Robots in double auction markets and offer some comparison with humans . The behavior of these robots is very simple: they simply choose a random bid or ask over a range of prices constrained by their budget and the market...