Industrial Robot: Volume 41 Issue 6

The Pransky interview: Dr Yoky Matsuoka, Vice President Technology, Nest Labs

Joanne Pransky

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

The future of robotics in Europe

Robert Bogue

– This paper aims to provide details of a major new European robotic research programme and of a recent survey concerning the attitudes of Europeans to robotic technology.

Robot innovation brings to agriculture efficiency, safety, labor savings and accuracy by plowing, milking, harvesting, crop tending/picking and monitoring

Richard Bloss

– This paper aims to review the dramatic entry of robotics into the field of agriculture.

Design and experimental verification of an intelligent wall-climbing welding robot system

Zhongcheng Gui, Yongjun Deng, Zhongxi Sheng, Tangjie Xiao, Yonglong Li, Fan Zhang, Na Dong, Jiandong Wu

This paper aims to present a new intelligent wall-climbing welding robot system for large-scale steel structure manufacture, which is composed of robot body, control…

Inexpensive spatial position system for the automation of inspection with mobile robots

Mohammed Abdullah Al Rashed, Tariq Pervez Sattar

The purpose of this paper is to develop a wireless positioning system. The automation of non-destructive testing (NDT) of large and complex geometry structures such as…

ARES, a variable stiffness actuator with embedded force sensor for the ATLAS exoskeleton

M. Cestari, D. Sanz-Merodio, J.C. Arevalo, E. Garcia

The purpose of this study is to present a variable stiffness actuator, one of whose main features is that the compliant elements simultaneously allow measuring of the…

A brief overview of evolutionary developmental robotics

Bo Xu, Huaqing Min, Fangxiong Xiao

This article aims to provide a brief overview of the field now known as “evolutionary developmental robotics (evo-devo-robo)”, which is based on the concept and principles…

A new robot skin for force and position detection

Haibin Wu, Yixian Su, Jinjin Shi, Jinwen Li, Jinhua Ye

– The aim of the research is to achieve a robot skin which is easy to use, and can detect both position and force interacted between robot and environments.

Ground verification of space robot capturing the free-floating target based on visual servoing control with time delay

Haitao Yang, Minghe Jin, Zongwu Xie, Kui Sun, Hong Liu

The purpose of this paper is to solve the ground verification and test method for space robot system capturing the target satellite based on visual servoing with…

Coordinated movement of biomimetic dual PTZ visual system and wheeled mobile robot

He Xu, Yan Xu, Hu Fu, Yixian Xu, X.Z. Gao, Khalil Alipour

The purpose of this paper is to explore a novel control approach for swift and accurate positioning and tracking of a mobile robot. Coordinated movement of the mobile…

A closed-form solution to eye-to-hand calibration towards visual grasping

Hui Pan, Na Li Wang, Yin Shi Qin

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method that calibrates the hand-eye relationship for eye-to-hand configuration and afterwards a rectification to improve the…

Solving peg-in-hole tasks by human demonstration and exception strategies

Fares J. Abu-Dakka, Bojan Nemec, Aljaž Kramberger, Anders Glent Buch, Norbert Krüger, Ales Ude

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a new algorithm based on programming by demonstration and exception strategies to solve assembly tasks such as peg-in-hole.

A novel human-robot interface using hybrid sensors with Kalman filters

Ping Zhang, Guanglong Du, Di Li

The aim of this paper is to present a novel methodology which incorporates Camshift, Kalman filter (KFs) and adaptive multi-space transformation (AMT) for a human-robot…