Industrial Robot: Volume 49 Issue 1

The Pransky interview: Jack Morrison, CEO and Co-Founder, Scythe Robotics

Joanne Pransky

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

The role of robots in the green economy

Robert Bogue

This aims to illustrate the role robotic technology is playing in the key sectors of the green economy.

A dual-arm mobile robot system performing assistive tasks operated via P300-based brain computer interface

Giuseppe Gillini, Paolo Di Lillo, Filippo Arrichiello, Daniele Di Vito, Alessandro Marino, Gianluca Antonelli, Stefano Chiaverini

In the past decade, more than 700 million people are affected by some kind of disability or handicap. In this context, the research interest in assistive robotics is growing up…

Wearable sensor-based pattern mining for human activity recognition: deep learning approach

Vishwanath Bijalwan, Vijay Bhaskar Semwal, Vishal Gupta

This paper aims to deal with the human activity recognition using human gait pattern. The paper has considered the experiment results of seven different activities: normal walk…

Force tracking control of grinding end effector based on backstepping + PID

Shijie Dai, Shining Li, Wenbin Ji, Zhenlin Sun, Yufeng Zhao

This study aims to realize the constant force grinding of automobile wheel hub.

An end-to-End deep context gate convolutional visual odometry system based on lightweight attention mechanism

Yan Xu, Hong Qin, Jiani Huang, Yanyun Wang

Conventional learning-based visual odometry (VO) systems usually use convolutional neural networks (CNN) to extract features, where some important context-related and…

Multiple peg-in-hole compliant assembly based on a learning-accelerated deep deterministic policy gradient strategy

Xinwang Li, Juliang Xiao, Wei Zhao, Haitao Liu, Guodong Wang

As complex analysis of contact models is required in the traditional assembly strategy, it is still a challenge for a robot to complete the multiple peg-in-hole assembly tasks…

PID control of an omnidirectional mobile platform based on an RBF neural network controller

Niu Zijie, Zhang Peng, Yongjie Cui, Zhang Jun

Omnidirectional mobile platforms are still plagued by the problem of heading deviation. In four-Mecanum-wheel systems, this problem arises from the phenomena of dynamic imbalance…

Single-master/multi-slave haptic teleoperation: a force control scheme

Omer Faruk Argin, Zeki Yagiz Bayraktaroglu

This paper aims to present a novel modular design framework for the haptic teleoperation of single-master/multiple-slave (SM/MS) systems with cooperating manipulators.

Development of following robot for supplying power to solar panel cleaning robot

Xiaokun Li, Xin Li

Autonomous mobile cleaning robots are widely used to clean solar panels because of their flexibility and high efficiency. However, gravity is a challenge for cleaning robots on…

Industrial robot programming by demonstration using stereoscopic vision and inertial sensing

João Pedro C. de Souza, António M. Amorim, Luís F. Rocha, Vítor H. Pinto, António Paulo Moreira

The purpose of this paper is to present a programming by demonstration (PbD) system based on 3D stereoscopic vision and inertial sensing that provides a cost-effective pose…

Research on workpiece location algorithm based on improved SSD

Lin Li, Mingheng Fu, Tie Zhang, He Ying Wu

To improve production efficiency, industrial robots are expected to replace humans to complete the traditional manual operation on grasping, sorting and assembling workpieces…

A novel tracking system for human following robots with fusion of MMW radar and monocular vision

Yipeng Zhu, Tao Wang, Shiqiang Zhu

This paper aims to develop a robust person tracking method for human following robots. The tracking system adopts the multimodal fusion results of millimeter wave (MMW) radars and…

Dual-robot stud welding system for membrane wall

Youdong Chen, Qi Hu

The membrane wall is one of the most important components in the boiler industry and numerous studs are welded on its surface. The membrane wall welding still remains a sector…

Robotized interior finishing operations with visual feedback

Xin Jiang, Xiang Li

This paper aims to address the problem of integrating sensor feedback in robotized interior finishing operations. Its motivation is to finally realize automatic operations…

SSVEP-based active control of an upper limb exoskeleton using a low-cost brain–computer interface

Yue Xu, Qingcong Wu, Bai Chen, Xi Chen

For the robot-assisted upper limb rehabilitation training process of the elderly with damaged neuromuscular channels and hemiplegic patients, bioelectric signals are added to…

Accurate grasp detection learning using oriented regression loss

Xuan Zhao, Hancheng Yu, Mingkui Feng, Gang Sun

Robot automatic grasping has important application value in industrial applications. Recent works have explored on the performance of deep learning for robotic grasp detection…

A novel, low-cost technique for modelless calibration of a 3-axis parallel kinematic machine

Bence Tipary, Ferenc Gábor Erdős

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel measurement technique and a modelless calibration method for improving the positioning accuracy of a three-axis parallel kinematic…