Industrial Robot: Volume 41 Issue 4

The Pransky interview: Russ Angold, Co-Founder and President of Ekso™ Labs

Joanne Pransky

This paper aims to present a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and…

Robot ethics and law: Part one: ethics

Robert Bogue

– This first part of a two-part paper aims to provide an insight into the ethical and legal issues associated with certain classes of robot. This part is concerned with ethics.

Virtual agonist-antagonist mechanisms produce biological muscle-like functions: An application for robot joint control

Xiaofeng Xiong, Florentin Wörgötter, Poramate Manoonpong

The purpose of this paper is to apply virtual agonist–antagonist mechanisms (VAAMs) to robot joint control allowing for muscle-like functions and variably compliant joint…

Multi-rate sensor fusion for underwater heading estimation

Manuel Bandala, Tomás Salgado, Ramón Chávez

This paper presents the results of a heading estimation method for a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The output rate of commercially available underwater compasses is…

3-D vision-assist guidance for robots or the visually impaired

Du-Ming Tsai, Hao Hsu, Wei-Yao Chiu

This study aims to propose a door detection method based on the door properties in both depth and gray-level images. It can further help blind people (or mobile robots…

Deflection model for robotic friction stir welding

Jeroen De Backer, Gunnar Bolmsjö

This paper aims to present a deflection model to improve positional accuracy of industrial robots. Earlier studies have demonstrated the lack of accuracy of heavy-duty…

A review of robotic mechanisms for ultrasound examinations

Alireza Abbasi Moshaii, Farshid Najafi

This paper aims to review the mechanical characteristics of the robotic mechanisms developed for ultrasound examinations. This will help to extract those mechanical…

Development of a multi-DOF prosthetic hand with intrinsic actuation, intuitive control and sensory feedback

Hong Liu, Dapeng Yang, Li Jiang, Shaowei Fan

– The purpose of this paper is to present a five-fingered, multisensory prosthetic hand integrating both intuitive myoelectric control and sensory feedback.