Industrial Robot: Volume 39 Issue 4

Robots for space exploration

This paper aims to provide a technical description of the robots that have been deployed in space, primarily on the Moon and Mars.

Robotic innovations that address a wide spectrum of medical applications

The purpose of this paper is to review some of the recent innovations in robotics for a wide range of medically‐related applications.

PACK EXPO show highlighted how important robotics are to packaging

The purpose of this paper is to review the PACK EXPO show (packaging technology), with emphasis on the new robot innovations and applications to packaging on display.

RFID tag localization by using adaptive neuro‐fuzzy inference for mobile robot applications

The purpose of this paper is to address the use of passive RFID technology for the development of an autonomous surveillance robot. Passive RFID tags can be used for labelling…

Model analysis and experimental technique on computing accuracy of seam spatial position information based on stereo vision for welding robot

Stereo vision technique simulates the function of the human eyes to observe the world, which can be used to compute the spatial information of weld seam in the robot welding…

Analyzing energy‐efficient configurations in hexapod robots for demining applications

Reducing energy consumption in walking robots is an issue of great importance in field applications such as humanitarian demining so as to increase mission time for a given power…

Control system design for heavy duty industrial robot

The purpose of this paper is to present a control system for a heavy duty industrial robot, including both the control structure and algorithm, which was designed and tested.

Improving the capability of a redundant robotic cell for cast parts finishing

Precision aluminium moulding makes possible the production of large‐size, complex and high‐technology cast parts. However, industrial requirements linked to economic and safety…

Kinematic calibration of a 3‐DOF planar parallel robot

The purpose of this paper is to describe a calibration method developed to improve the absolute accuracy of a novel three degrees‐of‐freedom planar parallel robot. The robot is…

Design and implementation of a zero‐initial‐velocity self‐motion scheme on a six‐DOF planar robot manipulator

The purpose of this paper is to present the design and implementation of a zero‐initial‐velocity self‐motion scheme on a six degrees of freedom (six‐DOF) planar robot manipulator.

Web sites

Miniature medical robot navigates over a beating heart

Robots to create more than a Million Jobs by 2016

Barrett Technology and Leeman China forge strategic partnership

NAO Next Generation

Diary

Patent abstracts

Robotics comes to farming

ABB is UK’s leading supplier of new robots say market figures from BARA

Stäubli new “Pick and Place” applications

Piezoelectric Actuators: Control Applications of Smart Materials