Industrial Robot: Volume 27 Issue 5

Strapline:

The international journal of robotics research and application
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Table of contents

Beyond the standard cycle: increasing total work cell productivity by optimizing robot placement and other key performance influencers

Carl Mahr

A robot’s standard cycle time tends to be a primary criterion in estimating work cell through‐put. Many other factors, like robot placement, peripherals and optimization of the…

Robots and automation put on a show

Brian Rooks

Reports on the Robot & Automation show held at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre alongside the MACH 2000 and other principal manufacturing shows. Some of the robot…

ORiN: Open Robot Interface for the Network, a proposed standard

Makoto Mizukawa, Hideo Matsuka, Toshihiko Koyama, Akihiro Matsumoto

The Japan Robot Association (JARA) has been conducting standardization activities (ORiN: Open Robot Interface for the Network) in which the main subject is the network interface…

New small robot broadens applications spectrum for industrial automation

Karl‐Gunnar Johnsson

Describes the development and application of the ABB IRB 140 industrial robot. This robot is characterised by its small size (120cm high) and high load carrying capacity (5kg)…

Robotic applications for hot‐line maintenance

Yoshinaga Maruyama

Since 1984, Kyushu Electric Power Company (KYUDEN) has made all‐out efforts to introduce outage‐free maintenance techniques. Robotic techniques are promoted as part of these…

ISR 2000 – remote operation dominates high tech presentations

Sam Wane

Reports on the 31st International Symposium on Robotics, May 14‐17, 2000, Montreal, Canada. Teleoperation and automated remote operation dominated a high technology conference…

Novel brush drive robotic tractor for sewer and water main inspection and maintenance

E. Appleton, N.W. Stutchbury

This paper describes a novel drive mechanism for a robotic tractor for traversing pipelines, including sewers, in a poor condition. Traction is obtained by the reciprocating…

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ISSN:

0143-991X

e-ISSN:

1758-5791

ISSN-L:

0143-991X

Online date, start – end:

1973

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou