Industrial Robot: Volume 25 Issue 4

Strapline:

The international journal of robotics research and application
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Table of contents

Robots score at grinding and polishing

Brian Rooks

The benefits and advantages that robots bring to the grinding and polishing of complex and awkward shaped components is reviewed. They are illustrated with examples from…

ZF deburrs transmission housings with robots

Anna Kochan

Reviews the use of robotics for deburring transmission housings at ZF in Saarbrucken, Germany. Outlines a fully automated cell which has been installed for deburring and washing…

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Robot automation in the mould shop

Brian Rooks

British toolmakers are not renowned for their investment in advanced manufacturing technology. In spite of this mould and die maker, Fletcher & Hamilton has taken the ultimate…

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Robot companies broaden their horizons

Anna Kochan

Reports from the Hanover Industrie Messe on new robots exhibited. Reviews the latest robot controllers. Describes the work of the IPA in developing service robots.

Robot sets new standards in shot‐blasting

Chris Nichols

Details how robots are now being commissioned for work on surface treatment, cleaning and preparation. Robots are proving ideal and cost‐effective in applications which are known…

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Flexible virtual tools for programming robotic finishing operations

T. Kesavadas, Hari Subramanium

In this paper a Virtual Reality (VR) based interactive system for specifying robotic tasks using virtual tools is described. This environment allows an operator to reach into a…

Experiments in robotic fettling using visual feedback

Bijan Shirinzadeh, Michael Roberts

Increasingly, the laborious task of removing burrs on castings is being automated with the introduction of robots. This is largely to ensure higher level of consistency and…

The development of software to assist in off‐line programming for robotic fettling of cast components

Leslie Brown

During the casting of steel components, burrs and other unwanted material are formed which need to be removed in the deburring process. This is usually effected manually in what…

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ISSN:

0143-991x

Online date, start – end:

1973

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou