Industrial Robot: Volume 39 Issue 1

Nuclear snake‐arm robots

The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of snake‐arm robots to conduct inspection and repair operations within nuclear power plants. The systems that have been…

Telepresence and delta style robots come of age at latest combined Automate and Promat Shows

The purpose of this paper is to review the Automate Show (robots and vision) and the Promat Show (material handling) that ran jointly in Chicago, with emphasis on the new…

Design and implementation of a fully autonomous humanoid soccer robot

The purpose of this paper is to design and implement a team of kid size humanoid soccer robots conforming to RoboCup Humanoid league.

A new bug‐type navigation algorithm for mobile robots in unknown environments containing moving obstacles

The purpose of this paper is to improve the traditional bug algorithms for the navigation of mobile robots in unknown environments by considering the limitations in…

Fault tolerant motion planning of robotic manipulators based on a nested RRT algorithm

The purpose of this paper is to present a new nested rapidly‐exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm for fault tolerant motion planning of robotic manipulators.

Improved model‐based control of a six‐degree‐of‐freedom Stewart platform driven by permanent magnet synchronous motors

The precise control and dynamic analysis of the electrical Stewart platform have not been so well treated in the literature. This paper aims to design a novel model‐based…

Assessment of the positioning performance of an industrial robot

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of a laser tracker, a laser interferometer system and a telescopic ballbar for assessing the positioning performance of…

A universal approach for configuration synthesis of reconfigurable robots based on fault tolerant indices

The purpose of this paper is to propose a universal approach for configuration synthesis of reconfigurable robots based on fault tolerant indices.

Research, design and experiment of end effector for wafer transfer robot

Wafer transfer robots play a significant role in IC manufacturing industry and the end effector is an important component of the robots. The purpose of this paper is to…

Optimal time trajectories for industrial robots with torque, power, jerk and energy consumed constraints

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the torque, power, jerk and energy consumed constraints on the generation of minimum time collision‐free trajectories…

Patent abstracts

Thin fingers carefully lift cardboard cartons

First water tower robot clean for Panton McLeod

Lockheed Martin expands use of Dassault Systèmes Solutions: upgrades DELMIA Robotics implementation

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Guidelines for successful robotic systems training

New motors drive medical applications

OC Robotics provides snake-arm robot demonstration for Sellafield Ltd

Caterpillars inspire new movements in soft robots

Robot Behaviour – Design, Description, Analysis and Modelling