Industrial Robot: Volume 30 Issue 3

Collaborative, synchronous robots serving machines and cells

Paul G. Ranky

Multi‐arm, collaborative, synchronous robots are gaining acceptance in industry, because of the cycle time reduction, productivity increase, flexibility and quality gain…

Distributed control of a track based multi‐head robot

Stephen J. Derby, David Brown

A novel closed loop track based multi‐head robot has been developed to increase the material handing throughput. This robot allows waves of autonomous robot heads to move…

Robotics moves onwards and upwards

Anna Kochan

The 2002 climbing and walking robots (CLAWAR) conference featured 130 papers on topics related to CLAWAR. This article reviews the conference, highlighting papers in the areas of…

ROBOVOLC: a robot for volcano exploration result of first test campaign

G. Muscato, D. Caltabiano, S. Guccione, D. Longo, M. Coltelli, A. Cristaldi, E. Pecora, V. Sacco, P. Sim, G.S. Virk, P. Briole, A. Semerano, T. White

ROBOVOLC is a new robotic system that has been designed to help scientists in the exploration of volcanoes. It is composed of three subsystems: a rover platform with six…

Conflict definitions and mistakes in American industrial robotics standard for static performance evaluation

Zhenqi Zhu, Hongliang Cui

The ANSI/RIA R15.05‐1‐1990 is an American national industrial robotics standard that covers methods for evaluating the point‐to‐point and static performance of industrial robots…

Re‐configurable dual‐robot assembly system design, development and future directions

Sheng‐Jen Hsieh

This paper describes the design and development of a re‐configurable dual‐robot assembly system using off‐the‐shelf re‐configurable pneumatic modules, Hall‐effect sensors, a…

Portable robotic system for steel H‐beam welding

Seungbin B. Moon, Sung‐Ho Hwang, Woong‐Hee Shon, Ho‐Gil Lee, Yeon Taek Oh

Steel beam welding at a construction site is challenging due to the increasing thickness of steel members in today's buildings. In order to achieve high quality welding and…

Compact robotic handling of mushy peas

Innovative product design coupled with robot-based automation keeps Rittal ahead of the competition

Introduction to Robotics: Analysis, Systems, Applications

Jon Rigelsford

Roboteq introduces smart dual channel, 240 A DC motor controller/driver for mobile robots

Integrated vacuum pump and suction cup to deliver greater efficiency and reliability

New high-performance desktop robot offers large working area

Robots with reconfigurable joints

Jon Rigelsford

Wany Robotics secures funding in hi-growth domestic market

Belt axis actuator makes design simple – TM Robotics launches high-speed, long-stroke actuator

Synchronous control device

Jon Rigelsford

Oki Network Technologies lands leading US ILEC as customer for new robotic telephony main distribution frame

Horizontal multi-joint robot

Jon Rigelsford

More venturers please

Rob Buckingham

Internet page

Jon Rigelsford

Robots sand and polish veneered and acrylic parts

New sensor for difficult tracking applications

Designing Sociable Robots

Jon Rigelsford

Experimental Robotics VII (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

Jon Rigelsford

New robotic welding torch for aluminium

A motor the size of a pencil tip!

Diary

Ultra-powerful electric cylinder generates up to 44 kN thrust

ABB and Geku to inject plastics industry with faster, more flexible automated solutions

THK launches its smallest LM guides ever

System for synchronous robot control

Jon Rigelsford

Motoman enters body-in-white welding sector at Honda

The "tough cookie" of ABB power robots launched

Modular articulated robot

Jon Rigelsford

Setting the standard

Clive Loughlin

UK sales show signs of improvement

Robot system

Jon Rigelsford