Robots are no longer constrained to cages in factories and are increasingly taking on roles alongside humans. Before robots can accomplish their tasks in these dynamic environments, they must be able to navigate while avoiding collisions with pedestrians or other robots. Humans are able to move through crowds by anticipating the movements of other pedestrians and how their actions will influence others; developing a method for predicting pedestrian trajectories is a critical component of a robust robot navigation system. A current state-of-the-art approach for predicting pedestrian trajectories is Social-LSTM, which is a recurrent neural network that incorporates information about neighboring pedestrians to learn how people move cooperatively around each other. This thesis extends and modifies that model to output parameters for a multimodal distribution, which better captures the uncertainty inherent in pedestrian movements. Additionally, four novel architectures for representing neighboring pedestrians are proposed; these models are more general than current trajectory prediction systems and have fewer hyper-parameters. In both simulations and real-world datasets, the multimodal extension significantly increases the accuracy of trajectory prediction. One of the new neighbor representation architectures achieves state-of-the-art results while reducing the number of both parameters and hyper-parameters compared to existing solutions. Two techniques for incorporating the trajectory predictions into a planning system are also developed and evaluated on a real-world dataset. Both techniques plan routes that include fewer near-collisions than algorithms that do not use trajectory predictions. Finally, a Python library for Agent-Based-Modeling and crowd simulation is presented to aid in future research.

We present the design and fabrication of a prototype wall-climbing vehicle employing a unique combined locomotion and adhesion system in which the adhesive vacuum is transmitted through moving, perforated treads. Implementing the adhesion/drive system involved a broad range of design challenges, including: developing reliable sealing of sliding and static interfaces, understanding the frictional interactions between the drive treads and various vehicle components and surfaces on which they ride, as well as designing for lightness, manufacturability, and adjustability. The clean sheet design presented in this thesis was taken from concept to functioning prototype in less than 6 months, requiring a considered mix of off-the-shelf components, custom fabrication, and outsourced production. Proof of concept testing is reviewed, including static pressure and force results as well as dynamic vertical surface maneuverability trials.

With technological breakthrough in information sphere, a new approaches for work efficiency in enterprise areas are discovered today. One of them is process automation. This publication will describe "Robot Process Automation" term, present two possible solutions for implementation of model example and resolve the results in case of economical advances.

The topic of this master thesis is conceptual design of firefighting robot. The thesis shows alternative approach to designing robot in comparison with other current designs. The final product is quadrupedal robot, which can either walk or move on tracks. Robot is designed for indoor and outdoor firefighting.

This thesis deals with the design of a software library for PLC Siemens S7-1200 usable in programming of robotic cell. The theoretical part explains the principle of PLC programming and the configuration of an industrial robot. The practical part presents the design of the software library and then the individual blocks of the library are described. The library contains blocks for PLC and is also supplemented by blocks for HMI. Using the proposed library reduces the time required for programming. The software library allows the creation of a unified structure of control programs within the company. The result of the diploma thesis is a tested software library usable in the field.

The aim of the diploma thesis was to create a program with which it will be possible to control a collaborative robot by voice. First chapters contain a search of the current state in the field of collaborative robotics in terms of safety, work efficiency, robot programming and communication with the robot. Furthermore, the issue of machine processing of the human voice is discussed. In practical part was proposed an experiment in which we work with off-line simulation of UR3 robot in PolyScope 3.15.0 software. This simulation was linked to a Python program which uses SpeechRecognition and urx libraries. Simple voice instructions have been designed to move robot to defined position.

The topic of this diploma thesis is the design of an autonomous delivery robot, designed for the delivery of food and groceries over shorter distances. The diploma thesis includes design and technical analysis of existing products and deals with the design of an autonomous delivery robot. The proposed concept solves the technical shortcomings of current products and its design reflects new possibilities in the field of autonomous delivery systems.

The aim of this work is to design a safety module for promotional robot FEEC BUT robot, which is based on evaluation kit RDK-IDM-SBC. The security module allows authorized persons control different parts of the robot (monitors, computers and subsystems included in the robot).

The text of this master´s thesis deals with designing universal control unit for simple robots. In the first part of the thesis there is a list of robotics competitions which are organized to popularize robotics. The next part describes construction and individual components of simple robots used in these competitions. The third part includes description of parts used on this unit and its whole scheme together with its circuit board layout and mounting. The fourth part deals with construction of simple demo-robot with this control unit. The last part describes the software designing for the unit and checking its functionality.

This diploma thesis deals with the design of a robot head, which is intended for transfering plastic buckets from the belt conveyor to the pallet. The document comprises of the analysis of various solutions, the part with calculations of selected components, the pneumatic circuit design and the proposal for a periodic service system. The complete drawing documentation can be found in the appendixes.