Abstract: Inspired by the fifth-year anniversary celebration of the homonymous symposium at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), this Special Section with ten articles shares the latest research ...

Abstract: This article presents an integrated mechanics study for the design and the development of a service tracked robot able to move inside a truck container and roll over flax raw material by compressing it to increase its ...

Abstract: This article investigates the obstacle-climbing ability of a novel passively articulated robot, Polibot, which is compared to a standard tracked robot using a fixed-wheel configuration. Two test cases are analyzed: the ...