arXiv Robotics research summaries for May 03, 2024.

Today's Research Themes (AI-Generated):

• RobHAR advances human activity recognition with a robot-mounted mmWave radar for real-time elderly care monitoring.

• A new onboard framework enhances staircase detection and modeling for legged robots using point cloud data and data augmentation techniques.

• Task-driven computational framework proposed for optimizing the design and mounted pose of modular reconfigurable manipulators.

• Development of a tendon-driven variable stiffness manipulator demonstrates increased payload capacity and improved stability.

• Sonar-based positioning system designed for AUVs offers robust localization in underwater environments with sparse infrastructure.