Industrial Robot: Volume 32 Issue 3

A bumper year for robots

Aims to provide a summary of global robot statistics as presented in World Robotics 2004, a new publication prepared jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe…

Robotics outside the metals industries

To review presentations on robotics in “less familiar environments” given at a seminar, “The changing face of robotics: inside and outside the factory”, organised by the UK…

Jaguar “Roadmap” rethinks self‐piercing technology

Describes how Jaguar Cars is evaluating a technology roadmap to assess future manufacturing processes.

Interfacing industrial robotic systems with manufacturing tracking and control software: a choice for semi‐autonomous manufacturing systems

This technical paper reports the development of an industrial robotic labeling system, designed to insert identification labels on rolls of paper coming from an industrial paper…

The steady uptake of robots for dishwasher manufacture

Aims to determine how robotics is used in white goods manufacture.

Robots offer significant advantages for white goods manufacturers

Aims to determine how robotics is used in white goods manufacture.

An impedance‐controlled parallel robot for high‐speed assembly of white goods

Aims to discuss how impedance‐controlled parallel robots can effectively perform industrial assembly tasks.

Neuro‐fuzzy control applied to multiple cooperating robots

The paper aims to advance methodologies to optimize fuzzy logic controller parameters via neural network and use the neuro‐fuzzy scheme to control two cooperating robots.

Landmine detection using an autonomous terrain‐scanning robot

Describes a dual‐arm mobile manipulator that can autonomously scan natural terrain using a typical handheld landmine detector in a manner similar to a human operator.

Development of a general manipulator path planner using fuzzy reasoning

Aim for efficient motion planning of industrial robot with high degree of freedoms in both static and dynamic environments.

Evolving locomotion gaits for quadruped walking robots

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm (EA) for Sony legged robots to learn good walking behaviours with little or no interaction with the designers. Once the learning…

Advances in tactile sensors design/manufacturing and its impact on robotics applications – a review

Reviews the benefits and potential application of tactile sensors for use with robots.

Automating gives “BADGE” engineers lead over Far East

Long-life, modular robot cable guiding systems

Robotic scanner preserves the pages of history

Robotic assembly

Web sites

Flying in the face of convention – a new approach to the assembly of large fabricated products

Fundamentals of Robotics: Linking Perception to Action

Pick “n” mix or off-the-shelf gantry robots

Patent Abstracts

Diary

Swiss companies set up mobile robotics consortium

ABB wins $48 million contract from US Postal Service

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