Industrial Robot: Volume 25 Issue 2
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
RoboKent ‐ a case study in man‐machine interfaces
Jan LarsonThe idea of robotic floor cleaning landed on the housekeeping industry like an alien from outer space in the early part of the decade. An industry that had seen little progress in…
HelpMate, a service robot with experience
Gay EngelbergerWith almost a decade of experience, HelpMate is a material transport service robot that works in hospitals, side‐by‐side with human co‐workers, delivering equipment and supplies…
Surgeons’ realizations of RoboDoc
Joanne PranskyDescribes interviews with the two surgeons that have performed the most surgeries worldwide using the RoboDoc system, an integrated system that combines computer‐based medical…
M2VIP ‐ mechatronics walking and swimming down under
Andrew MaxwellMechatronics, the art of combining robotics, computer control, and electronics, was the topic at the recent annual M2VIP conference (mechatronics and machine vision in practice…
The man‐machine interface get friendlier at Manufacturing Week
Brian RooksA report on robots at the Manufacturing Week exhibition, highlighting some of the developments on show in the man‐machine interface field. This reveals that the Windows…
Simulation tools improve planning and reliability of paint finishing lines
Bernd Kreuzer, Dragoslav MilojevicSuppliers of industrial paint finishing lines usually have only a relatively short time in which to submit tenders for the lines and get them up and running. “Simultaneous…
Military look to flying insect robots
Jack HollingumReviews a presentation by Professor Robert Michelson of Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA about the growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicles, which can be used for…
Sensor‐referenced multiple robot cooperation for material handling
Ning Xi, Tzyh‐Jong TarnIn this paper, a new cooperation control scheme for multiple robot material handling is presented. First, the event‐based planning and control method is introduced, which lays…
Issues and experimental results in vision‐guided robotic grasping of static or moving objects
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Christopher E. SmithMany research efforts have turned to sensing, and in particular computer vision, to create more flexible robotic systems. Computer vision is often required to provide data for the…
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou