Industrial Robot: Volume 28 Issue 4

The European Framework Programme – past, present and future

Since 1984 the European Commission has funded research and technology development under a series of Framework Programmes which cover a four‐ to five‐year period and…

Automatic wing box assembly developments

A demonstrator cell has been developed at Airbus UK for building large aircraft wing box assemblies by a partnership of six companies partly funded under the UK…

Robotics for de‐heading fish – a case study

Robotic solutions for the handling of food products have been notably absent from suppliers’ catalogues and indeed from research laboratories. This is primarily due to the…

Closed‐loop, vision‐based control facilitates the fitting of sunroofs by robot

Describes a European project to develop vision‐based, closed‐loop robot control technology to facilitate assembly tasks in the automotive industry. Looks particularly at…

Eureka facilitates collaborative R&D in Europe

Describes the Eureka program that promotes multinational industrial R&D in Europe, and provides examples of recent Eureka projects in the area of robotics and automation.

Robot spraying of helicopter rotor blade ice protection system

Describes an installation at Aerospace Composite Technologies in Luton to apply ice protection heating elements to the leading edge portion of the main rotor blade fitted…

Tele‐operated maintenance of live power lines

Reports on a European project to develop a robotic system for maintaining live power lines, outlines the stereoscopic vision and voice control systems that enable a robot…

Spreadbands drive parallel robots

Describes the design principles of spreadband devices, made up of tapes such as are commonly employed in tape measures; and shows how they can be controlled and applied to…

Robot control system for grinding of large hydro power turbines

Presents a robot control system dedicated to grinding large Francis turbines. The control system is based on an active force feedback system using a three‐axes force…

Automotive supplier single-sources 360 welding robots

Tailor-made robot

Trends of automation and robotic systems in manufacturing and services

Chairman's report

Tohoku University knows how to climb robot using sensors

Homing instincts of ants help guide robot dirigible

Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-organising Machines

New design software for Modular Automation

Robotic cell for automated packing and handling

Robot systems automate welding processes for improved efficiency and repeatable quality levels

Stacking-up competitive advantage: the new FlexPalletizer robot from ABB

Another robotic success for Lincoln

Latest-generation rodless actuators provide compact, low-cost solution for programmable-linear positioning

Venture capitalists backing robot ramp-up

Compact, high-speed, multifunction robot brings wide working radius to welding and handling applications

Autonomous robot

ABB'S cool cats get the cream at Pakex

Balancing vertical movements

Are robots smart?

Robots put to real test

Worldwide robotics sales increase in 2000 expected to continue in 2001

Robotics event online

Internet page

New cells installed for robotic welding of vehicle components

New robot takes orders by phone

Machine Vision Algorithms in Java: Techniques and Implementation

Skipping robot emergency fire fighter of future in Japan

Associative Learning for a Robot Intelligence

World's most automated robotic end-tool surpassed

Railway carriages welded faster and more accurately using robot vision systems

Getting in a twist: new rotary manifold helps unravel air lines and coiled hoses

Diary

New load/unload system for punch press

Neos Robotics and Specma Automation win 65-million SEK order for next century production systems

Quick tool change on robot arms

Robot-based gauging system

RTS Advanced Robotics part of concept mine detection team

TM Robotics building block upon block

Robot simulator

European projects