Industrial Robot: Volume 29 Issue 3
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
Haptic interaction with virtual objects: the technology and some applications
Lennart Thurfjell, John McLaughlin, Johan Mattsson, Piet LammertseHaptics is an emerging technology that allows touch‐enabled interaction with virtual objects. Analogous to the use of computer graphics for rendering of a three‐dimensional (3D…
Robots penetrate where humans cannot
Anna KochanThe French Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA, has developed a range of remote controlled manipulators and mobile robots that is designed for inspection and intervention tasks in…
X‐ray guided robotic radiosurgery for solid tumors
Mohan Bodduluri, J.M. McCarthyThis paper presents an overview of the x‐ray guided robotic radiosurgery system that has been developed for the ablation of solid tumors. A robot‐mounted linear accelerator is…
Multi‐tasking robots are central to new Range Rover bodyshop
John MortimerA new manufacturing plant has been installed in Solihull, UK, to manufacture the new Range Rover sports utility vehicle. An important aspect of the £80 million investment at the…
Series elastic actuators for high fidelity force control
Jerry Pratt, Ben Krupp, Chris MorseSeries elastic actuators provide many benefits in force control of robots in unconstrained environments. These benefits include high force fidelity, extremely low impedance, low…
Snake arm robots
Rob BuckinghamBringing a new robot to market is an exciting venture. When that robot is a new type of robot the venture takes on new proportions – it becomes an adventure. Dr Rob Buckingham…
ROMA robots for inspection of steel based infrastructures
C. Balaguer, A. Gimenez, CM. AbderrahimThe robotics laboratory of the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid has developed the ROMA climbing robots, which are able to travel along 3D complex environments to carry out…
Autonomous humanoid robot locomotion based on neural networks
Genci Capi, Yasuo Nasu, Kazuhisa Mitobe, Leonard BarolliThis paper contributes to the problem of humanoid robot gait generation in unknown environments. The intention of the proposed method is to create an autonomous humanoid robot…
Performance evaluation of autonomous mobile robots
Adam Jacoff, Elena Messina, John EvansThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has initiated a program to develop quantitative metrics for machine intelligence. One of the possible approaches to…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou