Industrial Robot: Volume 47 Issue 3

Sensing skins for robots: product developments and recent research

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of the use of sensing skins by robots through reference to commercial products and recent research.

The Pransky interview: Dr. Matanya Horowitz, founder and CEO of AMP robotics

Joanne Pransky

This 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 experience…

Deviation from the direction of motion across gaits in a hexapodal robot

Zijie Niu, Aiwen Zhan, Yongjie Cui

The purpose of this study is to test a chassis robot on rugged road cargo handling.

Deep reinforcement learning-based attitude motion control for humanoid robots with stability constraints

Qun Shi, Wangda Ying, Lei Lv, Jiajun Xie

This paper aims to present an intelligent motion attitude control algorithm, which is used to solve the poor precision problems of motion-manipulation control and the…

sEMG-based variable impedance control of lower-limb rehabilitation robot using wavelet neural network and model reference adaptive control

Rohollah Hasanzadeh Fereydooni, Hassan Siahkali, Heidar Ali Shayanfar, Amir Houshang Mazinan

This paper aims to propose an innovative adaptive control method for lower-limb rehabilitation robots.

Practical application of a safe human-robot interaction software

Mustafa Can Bingol, Omur Aydogmus

Because of the increased use of robots in the industry, it has become inevitable for humans and robots to be able to work together. Therefore, human security has become…

Design and locomotivity analysis of a novel deformable two-wheel-like mobile mechanism

Qianqian Zhang, Yezhuo Li, Yan-An Yao, Ruiming Li

The purpose of this paper is to propose a deformable two-wheel-like mobile mechanism based on overconstrained mechanism, with the abilities of fast rolling and obstacle…

Posture adjustment method for large components of aircraft based on hybrid force-position control

Wenmin Chu, Xiang Huang

Flexible tooling for adjusting the posture of large components of aircraft (LCA) is composed of several numerical control locators (NCLs). Because of the manufacture and…

Human–robot shared control for humanoid manipulator trajectory planning

Yuanchao Zhu, Canjun Yang, Qianxiao Wei, Xin Wu, Wei Yang

This paper aims to propose an intuitive shared control strategy to control a humanoid manipulator that can fully combine the advantages of humans and machines to produce a…

Optimized 3D laser point cloud reconstruction by gradient descent technique

Ravinder Singh, Archana Khurana, Sunil Kumar

This study aims to develop an optimized 3D laser point reconstruction using Descent Gradient algorithm. Precise and accurate reconstruction of 3D laser point cloud of the…

Push recovery control of quadruped robot using particle swarm optimization based structure specified mixed sensitivity H2/H∞ control

Petrus Sutyasadi, Manukid Parnichkun

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a quadruped robot strategy to avoid tipping down because of side impact disturbance and a control algorithm that guarantees the…

An autonomous driving controller with heading adaptive calibration for agricultural robots

Nan Qiao, Lihui Wang, Mingjie Liu

This paper aims to propose a new autonomous driving controller to calibrate the absolute heading adaptively. Besides, the second purpose of this paper is to propose a new…

Frequency-division based hybrid force/position control of robotic arms manipulating in uncertain environments

Guanghui Liu, Lijin Fang, Bing Han, Hualiang Zhang

This paper aims to propose a hybrid force/position control algorithm based on the stiffness estimation of the unknown environment. A frequency-division control scheme is…

Research on mechanism configuration and coordinated control for power distribution network live working robot

Yu Yan, Wei Jiang, Dehua Zou, Wusheng Quan, Hong Jun Li, YunFei Lei, Zhan fan Zhou

In the long-term network operation, the power distribution network will be subjected to the effects of ultra-high voltage, strong electromagnetic interference and harsh…