Industrial Robot: Volume 41 Issue 1
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationCategory:
Mechanical and Materials EngineeringTable Of Contents
The Pransky interview: Dr Paolo Pirjanian, CTO of iRobot Corporation
Joanne PranskyPhD/inventor builds consumer robot start-up company based on low-cost, groundbreaking visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) visual sensors and NorthStarÂ…
User studies on teleoperation of robots for plant inspection
Ludger Schmidt, Jens Hegenberg, Liubov CramarTo avoid harm to humans, environment, and capital goods, hazardous or explosive gases that are possibly escaping from industrial and infrastructure facilities of the gas…
An event-controlled online trajectory generator based on the human-robot interaction force processing
Sarra Jlassi, Sami Tliba, Yacine ChitourThe problem of robotic co-manipulation is often addressed using impedance control based methods where the authors seek to establish a mathematical relation between the…
Mantis: hybrid leg-wheel ground mobile robot
Luca Bruzzone, Pietro FanghellaThe aim of the research is the development of a small-scale ground mobile robot for surveillance and inspection; the main design goals are mobility in indoor environments…
VirSense: a novel haptic device with fixed-base motors and a gravity compensation system
Ahmad Mashayekhi, Ali Nahvi, Mojtaba Yazdani, Majid Mohammadi Moghadam, Mohammadreza Arbabtafti, Mohsen NorouziThis paper aims to present the design and implementation of VirSense, a novel six-DOF haptic interface system, with an emphasis on its gravity compensation and fixed-base…
EuRathlon: the autonomous robot challenge
Robert BogueThis article aims to describe euRathlon 2013, the first competitive event in a three-year, EU-funded programme for autonomous robots, which was held in Germany in…
A new asymmetrical mass distribution method on the analysis of universal “force-sensing” model for 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator
Lingtao Yu, Huajian Song, Tao Wang, Zhengyu Wang, Liqiang Sun, Zhijiang DuThe characteristic of static is quite important especially for the manipulator with force feedback. This paper aims to improve the traditional static model by considering…
Robust industrial robot real-time positioning system using VW-camera-space manipulation method
Yong Liu, Dingbing Shi, Steven Baard SkaarVision-based positioning without camera calibration, using uncalibrated industrial robots, is a challenging research problem. To address the issue, an uncalibrated…
Unmanned vehicles while becoming smaller and smarter are addressing new applications in medical, agriculture, in addition to military and security
Richard Bloss– Review of the most recent unmanned vehicle show in Washington DC with emphasis on the new robot innovations and applications on display. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Motion planning for a new-model obstacle-crossing mobile welding robot
Tao Zhang, Minghui Wu, Yanzheng Zhao, Shanben ChenThe purpose of this paper is to discuss motion planning about crossing obstacles and welding trajectory for a new-model mobile obstacle-crossing welding robot system. The…
Mechatronic design and experimental validation of a novel robotic hand
Giorgio Figliolini, Pierluigi ReaThe subject of the paper is the mechatronic design of a novel robotic hand, cassino-underactuated-multifinger-hand (Ca.U.M.Ha.), along with its prototype and the…
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- Dr Clive Loughlin