Industrial Robot: Volume 40 Issue 6

Joanne Pransky interviews Dr William Townsend: MIT entrepreneur develops whole-arm manipulation for robot/human interaction

The following article is a special, new “Q&A interview” conducted by Industrial Robot Journal as a unique way to pass along information from a prominent, robotic industry…

Robots to aid the disabled and the elderly

Robert Bogue

– This article aims to discuss the potential of robots to assist the disabled and the elderly and to highlight some of the associated ethical issues.

Robots use machine vision and other smart sensors to aid innovative picking, packing and palletizing

Richard Bloss

– The paper aims to discuss the review of the most recent PackExpo show in Chicago with emphasis on the new robot innovations and applications on display.

A formal model for embedded brain reading

Elsa Andrea Kirchner, Rolf Drechsler

The presented work contributes to research in the field of advanced man-machine interaction and to research in the field of formalisation and verification of complex systems. This…

Output feedback control of an actuated lower limb orthosis with bounded input

Mohamed E. Lalami, Hala Rifaï, Samer Mohammed, Walid Hassani, Georges Fried, Yacine Amirat

– The purpose of this paper is the control of lower limb orthosis acting at the knee joint level for a passive rehabilitation purpose.

Systematic optimal design procedures for the Gough-Stewart platform used as motion simulators

Guojun Liu, Zhiyong Qu, Junwei Han, Xiaochu Liu

– The purpose of this paper is to present systematic optimal design procedures for the Gough-Stewart platforms used as engineering motion simulators.

A template reconstruction scheme for moving object detection from a mobile robot

Du-Ming Tsai, Tzu-Hsun Tseng

Mobile robots become more and more important for many potential applications such as navigation and surveillance. The paper proposes an image processing scheme for moving object…

A novel PID tuning method for robot control

Wen Yu, Xiaoou Li, Roberto Carmona

– This paper aims to address a new iterative tuning method of PID control for robot manipulators.

GMM-based visual attention for target selection of indoor robotic tasks

Dong Liu, Ming Cong, Yu Du, Clarence W. de Silva

Indoor robotic tasks frequently specify objects. For these applications, this paper aims to propose an object-based attention method using task-relevant feature for target…

Dynamic analysis and model-based feedforward control of a 2-DoF translational parallel manipulator driven by linear motors

Gang Zhang, Jianhua Wu, Pinkuan Liu, Han Ding

Based on the inverse kinematics and task space dynamic model, this paper aims to design a high-precision trajectory tracking controller for a 2-DoF translational parallel…

Development of a new type of passively adaptive compliant gripper

Dalibor Petković, Nenad D. Pavlović, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Nor Badrul Anuar

Passively compliant underactuated mechanisms are one way to obtain the gripper which could accommodate to any irregular and sensitive grasping object. The purpose of the…