Industrial Robot: Volume 42 Issue 6

The Pransky interview: Dr Martin Buehler, Executive R & D Imagineer at Walt Disney Imagineering and renowned expert in advanced robotics

Joanne Pransky

The following 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…

Sensors for robotic perception. Part two: positional and environmental awareness

Robert Bogue

The purpose of this article is to illustrate how sensors impart perceptive capabilities to robots. This is the second part of a two-part article. This second part considers…

State of the art in robots used in minimally invasive surgeries. Natural Orifice Transluminal Surgery (NOTES) as a particular case

Carlos Eduardo Díaz, Roemi Fernández, Manuel Armada, Felipe de Jesús García Gutiérrez

– This paper aims to provide an insight into recent advancements and developments of robotics for Natural Orifice Transluminal Surgery (NOTES) procedures.

Volumetric view planning for 3D reconstruction with multiple manipulators

Liangzhi Li, Nanfeng Xiao

This paper aims to propose a new view planning method which can be used to calculate the next-best-view (NBV) for multiple manipulators simultaneously and build an automated…

A markerless human-manipulators interface using multi-sensors

Ping Zhang, Xin Liu, Guanglong Du, Bin Liang, Xueqian Wang

The purpose of this paper is to present a markerless human–manipulators interface which maps the position and orientation of human end-effector (EE, the center of the palm) to…

Robotic training for hand movements during manual welding with real-time alarm feedback

Mustafa Suphi Erden, Aude Billard

The purpose of this study is to develop a robotic training system for the hand movements during manual welding. The system provides real-time notice-feedback with sound or light…

Workspace calculating and kinematic modelling of a flexible continuum manipulator constructed by steel-wires

GuoHua Gao, Yue Liu, Hao Wang, MingYang Song, Han Ren

The purpose of this paper is to present a new method to establish a kinematic model for a continuum manipulator, whose end can be controlled to move in a three-dimensional…

A comparative evaluation of three industrial robots using three reference measuring techniques

Mohamed Slamani, Ahmed Joubair, Ilian A. Bonev

The purpose of this paper is to present a technique for assessing and comparing the static and dynamic performance of three different models of small six-axis industrial robots…

A fixed-distance planning algorithm for 6-DOF manipulators

Mingyu Gao, Da Chen, Yuxiang Yang, Zhiwei He

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new trajectory planning algorithm for industrial robots, which can let the robots move through a desired spatial trajectory, avoid…