Industrial Robot: Volume 49 Issue 2

The Pransky interview: Dr Raffaello D’Andrea, Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the board at Verity; Entrepreneur; Professor; Scientist and Artist

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…

Warehouse robot market boosted by Covid pandemic and technological innovations

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of recent commercial and technological developments that are driving robotic warehouse automation.

Development and analysis of a bio-inspired wire-driven variable stiffness double spring based tapered multi-section flexible robot

Alok Ranjan Sahoo, Pavan Chakraborty

The purpose of this paper is to develop a tendon actuated variable stiffness double spring based continuously tapered multi-section flexible robot and study its capability to…

Research on mechanism configuration and dynamic characteristics for multi-split transmission line mobile robot

Wei Jiang, Yating Shi, Dehua Zou, Hongwei Zhang, Hong Jun Li

The purpose of this paper is to achieve the optimal system design of a four-wheel mobile robot on transmission line maintenance, as the authors know transmission line mobile robot…

Stable jump control for the wheel-legged robot based on TMS-DIP model

Xu Li, Yixiao Fan, Haoyang Yu, Haitao Zhou, Haibo Feng, Yili Fu

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel jump control method based on Two Mass Spring Damp Inverted Pendulum (TMS-DIP) model, which makes the third generation of hydraulic…

Challenges and opportunities in human robot collaboration context of Industry 4.0 - a state of the art review

Anil Kumar Inkulu, M.V.A. Raju Bahubalendruni, Ashok Dara, SankaranarayanaSamy K.

In the present era of Industry 4.0, the manufacturing automation is moving toward mass production and mass customization through human–robot collaboration. The purpose of this…

Design and analysis of magnetorheological damper based ankle-foot prosthesis prototype

Sachin Negi, Ujjwal Sagar, Vijay Kumar Nautiyal, Neeraj Sharma

This paper aims to design and analyze a controlled magnetorheological damper-based ankle-foot prosthesis prototype.

Vision-based target point tracking and aiming method

Xiao Bo Liang, Xinghua Qu, YuanJun Zhang, Lianyin Xu, Fumin Zhang

Laser absolute distance measurement has the characteristics of high precision, wide range and non-contact. In laser ranging system, tracking and aiming measurement point is the…

Integrating human experience in deep reinforcement learning for multi-UAV collision detection and avoidance

Guanzheng Wang, Yinbo Xu, Zhihong Liu, Xin Xu, Xiangke Wang, Jiarun Yan

This paper aims to realize a fully distributed multi-UAV collision detection and avoidance based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL). To deal with the problem of low sample…

Mechanical arm obstacle avoidance path planning based on improved artificial potential field method

Tianying Xu, Haibo Zhou, Shuaixia Tan, Zhiqiang Li, Xia Ju, Yichang Peng

This paper aims to resolve issues of the traditional artificial potential field method, such as falling into local minima, low success rate and lack of ability to sense the…

Obstacle avoidance and path planning of humanoid robot using fuzzy logic controller aided owl search algorithm in complicated workspaces

Abhishek Kumar Kashyap, Dayal R. Parhi

This paper aims to outline and implement a novel hybrid controller in humanoid robots to map an optimal path. The hybrid controller is designed using the Owl search algorithm…

Design and slip prevention control of a multi-sensory anthropomorphic prosthetic hand

Bo Zeng, Hongwei Liu, Hongzhou Song, Zhe Zhao, Shaowei Fan, Li Jiang, Yuan Liu, Zhiyuan Yu, Xiaorong Zhu, Jing Chen, Ting Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to design a multi-sensory anthropomorphic prosthetic hand and a grasping controller that can detect the slip and automatically adjust the grasping…

Robot obstacle avoidance system using deep reinforcement learning

Xiaojun Zhu, Yinghao Liang, Hanxu Sun, Xueqian Wang, Bin Ren

Most manufacturing plants choose the easy way of completely separating human operators from robots to prevent accidents, but as a result, it dramatically affects the overall…

The role of robotics in additive manufacturing: review of the AM processes and introduction of an intelligent system

J. Norberto Pires, Amin S. Azar, Filipe Nogueira, Carlos Ye Zhu, Ricardo Branco, Trayana Tankova

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a rapidly evolving manufacturing process, which refers to a set of technologies that add materials layer-by-layer to create functional components…

Active disturbance rejection motion control of spherical robot with parameter tuning

Manlu Liu, Rui Lin, Maotao Yang, Anaid V. Nazarova, Jianwen Huo

The characteristics of spherical robots, such as under-drive, non-holonomic constraints and strong coupling, make it difficult to establish its motion control model accurately. To…

A progressive online external parameter calibration and initialization method for stereo-IMU system

Yanwu Zhai, Haibo Feng, Yili Fu

This paper aims to present a pipeline to progressively deal with the online external parameter calibration and estimator initialization of the Stereo-inertial measurement unit…

Barrier Lyapunov function-based robot control with an augmented neural network approximator

Zuguo Zhang, Qingcong Wu, Xiong Li, Conghui Liang

Considering the complexity of dynamic and friction modeling, this paper aims to develop an adaptive trajectory tracking control scheme for robot manipulators in a universal…

Real-time pixel-wise grasp affordance prediction based on multi-scale context information fusion

Yongxiang Wu, Yili Fu, Shuguo Wang

This paper aims to use fully convolutional network (FCN) to predict pixel-wise antipodal grasp affordances for unknown objects and improve the grasp detection performance through…