Industrial Robot: Volume 46 Issue 1

Tactile sensing for surgical and collaborative robots and robotic grippers

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to illustrate the increasingly important role played by tactile sensing in robotics by considering three specific fields of application.

Design and performance analysis of an industrial robot arm for robotic drilling process

Longfei Sun, Fengyong Liang, Lijin Fang

The purpose of this paper is to present a robotic arm that can offer better stiffness than traditional industrial robots for improving the quality of holes in robotic drilling…

Matching for navigation map building for automated guided robot based on laser navigation without a reflector

Ke Zhang, Hao Gui, Zhifeng Luo, Danyang Li

Laser navigation without a reflector does not require setup of reflector markers at the scene and thus has the advantages of free path setting and flexible change. This technology…

Trajectory planning method based on transitional segment optimization of spray painting robot on complex-free surface

Liwen Guan, Lu Chen

This paper aims to present a new trajectory optimization approach targeting spray painting applications that satisfies the paint thickness requirements of complex-free surfaces.

A complete modeling for fish robots with actuators

Yung-Hsiang Chen, Yung-Yue Chen, Qi-Xian Chen, Yi-Lin Tsai

For precisely presenting the swimming behavior of fish robots underwater and the practical implementation purpose, this paper aims to investigate a well-formulated fish robot…

Design of an embracing-type climbing robot for variation diameter rod

Guoda Chen, Huafeng Yang, Huiqiang Cao, Shiming Ji, Xi Zeng, Qian Wang

For the climbing rod object with large diameter variation and the need of obstacle crossing, this paper aims to propose a new embracing-type climbing robot named as EVOC-I robot.

Implementation of a robot control architecture for additive manufacturing applications

Filipe Monteiro Ribeiro, J. Norberto Pires, Amin S. Azar

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have recently turned into a mainstream production method in many industries. The adoption of new manufacturing scenarios led to the…

A two-wheel load balance control strategy for an HVTL inspection robot based on second-order sliding-mode

Zhihang He, Wei Wang, Huaping Ruan, Yanzhang Yao, Xuelong Li, Dehua Zou, Yu Yan, Shaochun Jia

Overhead high-voltage transmission line (HVTL) inspection robots are used to inspect the transmission lines and/or maintain the infrastructures of a power transmission grid. One…

Manipulator visual localization motion control for power cable mobile robot in dynamic-unstructured environment

Wei Jiang, An Zhang, Gongping Wu, Lianqing Yu, Hong Jun Li, Lizhen Du, Wei Chen

To improve the operational efficiency and intelligence of live operation robots in dynamic-unstructured operation environments, this paper aims to propose a fuzzy logic-based…

An approach to optimize the path of humanoid robots using a hybridized regression-adaptive particle swarm optimization-adaptive ant colony optimization method

Priyadarshi Biplab Kumar, Dayal R. Parhi, Chinmaya Sahu

With enhanced use of humanoids in demanding sectors of industrial automation and smart manufacturing, navigation and path planning of humanoid forms have become the centre of…

Posture measurement of soft pneumatic bending actuator using optical fibre-based sensing membrane

Guangkai Sun, Yang Hu, Mingli Dong, Yanlin He, Mingxin Yu, Lianqing Zhu

Soft robotics is a burgeoning field owing to its high adaptability and safety in human–machine interaction and unstructured environments. However, the feedback control of soft…

A simulation-based approach to develop a holonic robotic cell

Clint Alex Steed

This paper aims to present an approach for the simulation of a heterogeneous robotic cell. The simulation enables the cell’s developers to conveniently compare the performance of…

Modeling and prototyping of a soft closed-chain modular gripper

Muddasar Anwar, Toufik Al Khawli, Irfan Hussain, Dongming Gan, Federico Renda

This paper aims to present a soft closed-chain modular gripper for robotic pick-and-place applications. The proposed biomimetic gripper design is inspired by the Fin Ray effect…

Wheelchair robot navigation in different weather conditions using deep learning and evolved neural controller

K.M. Ibrahim Khalilullah, Shunsuke Ota, Toshiyuki Yasuda, Mitsuru Jindai

Wheelchair robot navigation in different weather conditions using single camera is still a challenging task. The purpose of this study is to develop an autonomous wheelchair robot…

Real-time control and application with self-tuning PID-type fuzzy adaptive controller of an inverted pendulum

Tayfun Abut, Servet Soyguder

This paper aims to keep the pendulum on the linear moving car vertically balanced and to bring the car to the equilibrium position with the designed controllers.

Human skill integrated motion planning of assembly manipulation for 6R industrial robot

Yi Liu, Ming Cong, Hang Dong, Dong Liu

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new method based on three-dimensional (3D) vision technologies and human skill integrated deep learning to solve assembly positioning…