Industrial Robot: Volume 47 Issue 1

Robots in the offshore oil and gas industries: a review of recent developments

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of recent developments in robots aimed at applications in the offshore oil and gas industries.

The Pransky interview: Dr James Kuffner, CEO at Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development, Coinventor of the rapidly, exploring random tree algorithm

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…

Gait planning and control of quadruped crawling robot on a slope

Peng Wang, Chunxiao Song, Xiaoqiang Li, Peng Luo

The gait planning and control of quadruped crawling robot affect the stability of the robot walking on a slope. The control includes the position control in the swing phase, the…

Variable impedance control of finger exoskeleton for hand rehabilitation following stroke

Fuhai Zhang, Legeng Lin, Lei Yang, Yili Fu

The purpose of this paper is to propose a variable impedance control method of finger exoskeleton for hand rehabilitation using the contact forces between the finger and the…

Active vibration control of flexible-joint manipulators using accelerometers

Pu Zhao, Yunfei Zhou

Manipulators are often subjected to joint flexibility caused by various causes in industrial applications, such as shaft windup, harmonic drives and bearing deformation. However…

Performance enhancement of two-camera robotic system using adaptive gain approach

Megha G. Krishnan, Abhilash T. Vijayan, Ashok Sankar

This paper aims to improve the performance of a two-camera robotic feedback system designed for automatic pick and place application by modifying its velocity profile during…

Inverse kinematics solution and posture optimization of a new redundant hybrid automatic fastening system for aircraft assembly

Guowei Pan, Wenliang Chen, Hui Wang

The purpose of this paper is to use the redundancy of a new hybrid automatic fastening system (HAFS) for aircraft assembly in the best way.

Optimal trajectory generation of an industrial welding robot with kinematic and dynamic constraints

Amruta Rout, Deepak Bbvl, Bibhuti B. Biswal

This paper aims to present an optimal trajectory planning for industrial MOTOMAN MA1440A gas metal arc welding system. A new and efficient evolutionary algorithm, enhanced…

The parameter identification model considering both geometric parameters and joint stiffness

Jing Bai, Le Fan, Shuyang Zhang, Zengcui Wang, Xiansheng Qin

Both geometric and non-geometric parameters have noticeable influence on the absolute positional accuracy of 6-dof articulated industrial robot. This paper aims to enhance it and…

Three-dimensional stability analysis of robotic machining process

Feng-Xia He, Li Dai, Qisen Chen, Yu Liu, Zhong Luo

Since robot’s structural stiffness is usually less than 1 N/µm, mode coupling chatter occurs frequently during robotic milling process, and chatter frequency is close to the…

Research on configuration design and operation effect evaluation for ultra high voltage (UHV) vertical insulator cleaning robot

Yu Yan, Wei Jiang, An Zhang, Qiao Min Li, Hong Jun Li, Wei Chen, YunFei Lei

This study aims to the three major problems of low cleaning efficiency, high labor intensity and difficult to evaluate the cleaning effect for manual insulators cleaning in ultra…

Fabrication of curved overhanging thin-walled structure with robotic wire and arc additive manufacturing (RWAAM)

Yifeng Li, Xunpeng Qin, Qiang Wu, Zeqi Hu, Tan Shao

Robotic wire and arc additive manufacturing (RWAAM) is becoming more and more popular for its capability of fabricating metallic parts with complicated structure. To unlock the…

Robust fuzzy sliding mode control based on low pass filter for the welding robot with dynamic uncertainty

Pengcheng Wang, Dengfeng Zhang, Baochun Lu

Considering the external disturbances and dynamic uncertainties during the process of the trajectory tracking, this paper aims to address the problem of the welding robot…

An inspection continuum robot with tactile sensor based on electrical impedance tomography for exploration and navigation in unknown environment

Yaming Wang, Feng Ju, Yahui Yun, Jiafeng Yao, Yaoyao Wang, Hao Guo, Bai Chen

This paper aims to introduce an aircraft engine inspection robot (AEIR) which can go in the internal of the aircraft engine without collision and detect damage for engine blades.

Optimal automatic path planner and design for high redundancy robotic systems

Pedro Tavares, Daniel Marques, Pedro Malaca, Germano Veiga, Pedro Costa, António P. Moreira

In the vast majority of the individual robot installations, the robot arm is just one piece of a complex puzzle of components, such as grippers, jigs or external axis, that…