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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Locomotion with Pedestrian Aware from Perception Sensor by Pavement Sweeping Reconfigurable Robot.

Lim Yi, Anh Vu Le, Balakrishnan Ramalingam, Abdullah Aamir Hayat, Mohan Rajesh Elara, Tran Hoang Quang Minh, Braulio Félix Gómez, Lum Kai Wen

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lim YiROAR Lab, Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-2997-6667
Anh Vu LeROAR Lab, Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-4804-7540
Balakrishnan RamalingamROAR Lab, Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-3243-9814
Abdullah Aamir HayatROAR Lab, Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0001-6141-4600
Mohan Rajesh ElaraROAR Lab, Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0001-6504-1530
Tran Hoang Quang MinhOptoelectronics Research Group, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam.ORCID 0000-0002-2956-6206
Braulio Félix GómezROAR Lab, Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore.
Lum Kai WenROAR Lab, Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore.
Singapore University of Technology and Design · SGTon Duc Thang University · VN

Funding

This research is supported by the National Robotics Programme under its Robotics Enabling Capabilities and Technologies (Funding Agency Project No. 192 25 00051), National Robotics Programme under its Robot Domain Specific (Funding Agency Project No. W192 W1922d0110
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regular washing of public pavements is necessary to ensure that the public environment is sanitary for social activities. This is a challenge for autonomous cleaning robots, as they must adapt to the environment with varying pavement widths while avoiding pedestrians. A self-reconfigurable pavement sweeping robot, named Panthera, has the mechanisms to perform reconfiguration in width to enable smooth cleaning operations, and it changes its behavior based on environment dynamics of moving pedestrians and changing pavement widths. Reconfiguration in the robot's width is possible, due to the scissor mechanism at the core of the robot's body, which is driven by a lead screw motor. Panthera will perform locomotion and reconfiguration based on perception sensors feedback control proposed while using an Red Green Blue-D (RGB-D) camera. The proposed control scheme involves publishing robot kinematic parameters for reconfiguration during locomotion. Experiments were conducted in outdoor pavements to demonstrate the autonomous reconfiguration during locomotion to avoid pedestrians while complying with varying pavements widths in a real-world scenario.

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PedestriansRoboticsFeedbackHumansLocomotionPerceptionfeedback controlpavement cleaningreconfigurable robotreconfiguration mechanism designsemantic segmentation deep neural networksensors fusion

Identifiers

PMID33802434
PMCPMC7959298
OpenAlexW3134976141

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