Industrial Robot: Volume 43 Issue 2

The Pransky interview: Aldo Zini, President and CEO of Aethon, Inc.

Joanne Pransky

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

Search and rescue and disaster relief robots: has their time finally come?

Robert Bogue

– This paper aims to discuss search and rescue (SAR) and disaster relief robot developments, trials and applications and to answer the question posed in the title.

Automatic stepping for circumferential splice drilling in aircraft fuselage assembly

Weidong Zhu, Along Zhang, Biao Mei, Yinglin Ke

A large number of fastener holes have to be drilled with high quality in the circumferential splice region during the assembly of aircraft fuselage. The purpose of this…

User-friendly task level programming based on an online walk-through teaching approach

Alberto Brunete, Carlos Mateo, Ernesto Gambao, Miguel Hernando, Jukka Koskinen, Jari M Ahola, Tuomas Seppälä, Tapio Heikkila

This paper aims to propose a new technique for programming robotized machining tasks based on intuitive human–machine interaction. This will enable operators to create…

Intelligent method for tuning H2 PID controller of water hydraulic manipulator of CFETR blanket maintenances

Manfen Han, Huapeng Wu, Yuntao Song, Yong Cheng, Heikki Handroos

The purpose of this paper is to investigate an intelligent control for water hydraulic position servo system which is intent to be used in remote control robot for fusion…

Kinematic constraint analysis in a twin-robot system for curved-surface nondestructive testing

Zongxing Lu, Chunguang Xu, Qinxue Pan, Dingguo Xiao, Fanwu Meng, Juan Hao

Nondestructive testing based on cooperative twin-robot technology is a significant issue for curved-surface inspection. To achieve this purpose, this paper aims to present…

A compact stair-climbing wheelchair with two 3-DOF legs and a 1-DOF base

Chang-Hyuk Lee, Kyung-min Lee, Jehong Yoo, In-su Kim, Young-bong Bang

The purpose of this paper is to describe a compact wheelchair, which has two 3-degrees of freedom (DOF) legs and a 1-DOF base (the total DOF of the leg system is 7) for…

Design and experiment of a universal space-saving end-effector for multi-task operations

Jun Wu, Shaowei Fan, Minghe Jin, Kui Sun, Cheng Zhou, Hong Liu

– The purpose of this paper is to present the design and experiment of a universal space-saving end-effector for multi-task operations.

Motion planning for humanoid robot dynamically stepping over consecutive large obstacles

Fayong Guo, Tao Mei, Minzhou Luo, Marco Ceccarelli, Ziyi Zhao, Tao Li, Jianghai Zhao

Humanoid robots should have the ability of walking in complex environment and overcoming large obstacles in rescue mission. Previous research mainly discusses the problem…

Dynamic modeling and sensitivity analysis of dual-robot pneumatic riveting system for fuselage panel assembly

Honglun Huan, Liang Cheng, Yinglin Ke

The purpose of this paper is to present a dual-robot pneumatic riveting system for fuselage panel assembly, including the system design, dynamic analysis and sensitivity…

Design of cooling system for inspection manipulator and analysis based on experiment

Tan Chen, Wei-jun Zhang, Jian-jun Yuan, Liang Du, Ze-yu Zhou

This paper aims to present a different cooling method (water cooling) to protect all the mechanical/electrical components for Tokamak in-vessel inspection manipulator. The…

A dual-mode online optimization method for trajectory tracking of redundant manipulators

Jian Fang, Tao Mei, Jianghai Zhao, Tao Li

The purpose of this paper is to present a dual-mode online optimization method (OOM) for trajectory tracking of the redundant manipulators. This method could be used to…