Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the development of a Sail Car within the European Project Semester (EPS), the international multidisciplinary engineering capstone programme offered by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP). The main goal of EPS@ISEP is to offer a project-based educational experience to develop teamwork, communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills in an international and multidisciplinary set up. The Sail Car team consisted of six Erasmus students, who participated in EPS@ISEP during the spring of 2019. The objective of the project was to design and develop a wind-powered, easy to drive land sailing vehicle. First, the team researched existing commercial solutions and considered the marketing, ethics and sustainability dimensions of the project. Next, based on these studies, specified the full set of requirements, designed the Sailo solution and procured the components and materials required to build a real size proof-of-concept prototype. Finally, the team assembled and tested successfully the prototype. At the end of the semester, the team considered EPS@ISEP a mind-opening opportunity.

Abstract
The constant increase in the world population has progressively demanded that humanity develop new technologies to face challenges such as providing high-quality food to the consumer market. In this sense, the concept of precision agriculture arises, proposing the development of agricultural activities such as preparing the land, sowing, planting, treating plants and harvesting automatically through robotic systems. This study focuses on performing a systematic review of the state of the art of robotics applications to execute agricultural activities. Through a comparative analysis of the existing solutions it was possible to highlight the similarities, differences and limitations of several agricultural robots. After looking at the needs of agricultural tasks and the limitations of robots, the challenges that are still unresolved and their possible solutions are indicated. © CLAWAR Association Ltd.

Abstract
Correction to: M. F. Silva et al. (Eds.): Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, AISC 1092, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35990-4 The original version of the book was inadvertently published with incomplete information in the Organization page of the front matter, which has now been included. The book has been updated with the change. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.

Abstract

Abstract

Abstract
Motivated by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there is an ever-increasing need to integrated Cyber-Physical Systems in industrial production environments. To address the demand for flexible robotics in contemporary industrial environments and the necessity to integrate robots and automation equipment in an efficient manner, an effective, bidirectional, reliable and structured data interchange mechanism is required. As an answer to these requirements, this article presents ROBIN, an open-source middleware for achieving interoperability between the Robot Operating System and CODESYS, a softPLC that can run on embedded devices and that supports a variety of fieldbuses and industrial network protocols. The referred middleware was successfully applied and tested in various industrial applications such as battery management systems, motion, robotic manipulator and safety hardware control, and horizontal integration between a mobile manipulator and a conveyor system.