Industrial Robot: Volume 25 Issue 6
Strapline:
The international journal of robotics research and applicationCategory:
Mechanical and Materials EngineeringTable Of Contents
Unmanned vehicles go to war
Jack HollingumA two‐day conference in May 1998 on unmanned vehicles gave a remarkable picture of the range of uses ‐ and particularly for military purposes ‐ to which robot vehicles are…
Palletizing robots for the consumer goods industry
Eric HemmingsonFlexPalletizer IRB 640 is the name of a new palletizing robot developed by ABB that meets the special needs of the consumer goods industry, and particularly those of the…
Robotic assistants for aircraft inspectors
Mel Siegel, Priyan Gunatilake, Gregg PodnarAircraft flight pressurization/depressurization cycling causes the skin to inflate and deflate, stressing it around the rivets that fasten it to the airframe. The…
Augmenting reality for telerobotics: unifying real and virtual worlds
John PretloveThis paper describes the Active Telepresence System and the development of an augmented reality (AR) interface to enhance the operator’s sense of presence in hazardous…
Collision avoidance using potential fields
Jih‐Gau JuangControl of manipulator collision avoidance by using computer‐aided potential field method is studied. A repulsive force is artificially created using the distances between…
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
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- Dr Clive Loughlin