Industrial Robot: Volume 44 Issue 4

Editorial

Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Khaled Goher, Giovanni Muscato, Mohammad Osman Tokhi, Gurvinder S. Virk

Robots that interact with humans: a review of safety technologies and standards

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of the safety considerations, technologies and standards associated with robots that interact with, or operate in proximity to, humans.

The Pransky Interview: Professor Gurvinder S. Virk, Technical Director, Innovative Technology and Science Limited

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 personal…

A path planning method of anti-jamming ability improvement for autonomous vehicle navigating in off-road environments

Jiajia Chen, Wuhua Jiang, Pan Zhao, Jinfang Hu

Navigating in off-road environments is a huge challenge for autonomous vehicles, due to the safety requirement, the effects of noises and non-holonomic constraints of…

A mutated FastSLAM using soft computing

Ramazan Havangi

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of determining the pose (position and orientation) of an autonomous robot moving through an unknown…

An experimental study on feature-based SLAM for multi-legged robots with RGB-D sensors

Michał R. Nowicki, Dominik Belter, Aleksander Kostusiak, Petr Cížek, Jan Faigl, Piotr Skrzypczyński

This paper aims to evaluate four different simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems in the context of localization of multi-legged walking robots equipped with…

Online 3D LIDAR Monte Carlo localization with GPU acceleration

Janusz Marian Bedkowski, Timo Röhling

This paper aims to focus on real-world mobile systems, and thus propose relevant contribution to the special issue on “Real-world mobile robot systems”. This work on 3D…

Energy-efficiency hexapod walking robot for humanitarian demining

Hector Montes, Lisbeth Mena, Roemi Fernández, Manuel Armada

The aim of this paper is to introduce a hexapod walking robot specifically designed for applications in humanitarian demining, intended to operate autonomously for several…

Research on a mobile manipulator for biochemical sampling tasks

Weidong Wang, Wenrui Gao, DongMei Wu, Zhijiang Du

The paper aims to present a tracked robot comprised of several biochemical sampling instruments and a universal control architecture. In addition, a dynamic motion…

Dual manipulator system of the field hot-line working robot in 110-kV substations

Mingdong Tang, Youlin Gu, Yunjian Zhang, Shigang Wang

The purpose of this paper is to present a dual manipulator system for aloft hot-line assembly tasks of connection fittings in 110-kv intelligent substation, which is…

Application research on AGV case: automated electricity meter verification shop floor

Jia Chen Tu, Xiao Ming Qian, Pei Huang Lou

The paper aims to propose general design rules and route plan for automated guided vehicle system (AGVS). The AGVS is applied to automated meter verification areas through…

Non-singular terminal sliding mode control design for wheeled mobile manipulator

Moharam Habibnejad Korayem, Reza Shiri, Saeed Rafee Nekoo, Zohair Fazilati

The purpose of this paper is to propose an indirect design for sliding surface as a function of position and velocity of each joint (for mounted manipulator on base) and…

Mechanism design of a biomimetic quadruped robot

Zhao Tang, Peng Qi, Jian Dai

This paper aims to introduce a novel design of the biomimetic quadruped robot, including its body structure, three structural modes and respective workspace.

Development of a Voronoi diagram based tree trunk detection system for mobile robots used in agricultural applications

Gokhan Bayar

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for detecting tree trunks for autonomous agricultural applications performed using mobile robots.

Exact laser beam positioning for measurement of vegetation vitality

Lars Lindner, Oleg Sergiyenko, Moises Rivas-López, Daniel Hernández-Balbuena, Wendy Flores-Fuentes, Julio C. Rodríguez-Quiñonez, Fabian N. Murrieta-Rico, Mykhailo Ivanov, Vera Tyrsa, Luis C. Básaca-Preciado

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel application for a newly developed Technical Vision System (TVS), which uses a laser scanner and dynamic triangulation, to…

An improved binocular visual odometry algorithm based on the Random Sample Consensus in visual navigation systems

Qian Sun, Ming Diao, Yibing Li, Ya Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a binocular visual odometry algorithm based on the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) in visual navigation systems.

A novel scan registration method based on the feature-less global descriptor – spherical entropy image

Bo Sun, Yadan Zeng, Houde Dai, Junhao Xiao, Jianwei Zhang

This paper aims to present the spherical entropy image (SEI), a novel global descriptor for the scan registration of three-dimensional (3D) point clouds. This paper also…