Industrial Robot: Volume 32 Issue 6
Strapline:
The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents - Special Issue: Service Robots
Guest Editors: Dr Guido Bugmann
UK robotic installations statistics for 2004
K. Young, I. Tuersley, A. VaidyaAims to collate and analyse data relating to the sales and installations of industrial robots in the UK for the preceding year and, by comparison with data from previous years…
Scalpel please, robot: Penelope's debut in the operating room
Anna KochanAims to demonstrate how robot technology, machine vision, voice recognition and artificial intelligence can be applied to creating an automated surgeon's assistant that is…
Robots will be of service with muscles, not motors
Charlie DuncheonAims to project how electroactive polymer will replace conventional electromagnetic motor driven solutions for service and industrial robots.
Vision enabled robotics
Christine ConnollyExamines a recently launched integration of smart cameras into industrial robots to make them responsive to a changing environment.
Japanese prototype service robot R&D trends and examples
Gregory N. Ranky, Paul G. RankyOffers a broad overview on Japanese prototype service robot R&D trends and examples.
Ford welds a winner
Richard BlossTo report on the design and development of a robotic automobile aluminium frame welding system.
Automation in the sky
Anna KochanAims to summarise the programme of UV Europe, a conference on unmanned vehicles that took place in Paris in June 2005.
Japanese robotics – where to go?
Yoshihiro KusudaAims to make an appeal to Japanese robotic community in an attempt to keep global competitivity for the future.
Weighted path planning based on collision detection
Shujun Lu, Jae H. ChungAims to make an industrial robot work human‐friendly while coexisting with humans in a same working space, without any modification of the manipulator hardware as well as its…
Flexible full‐body tactile sensor of low cost and minimal output connections for service robot
Zengxi Pan, Zhenqi ZhuThis paper aims to design a new full‐body tactile sensor which is essential for the application of personal service robot similar to human skin.
SOHO security with mini self‐balancing robots
Albert Ko, H.Y.K. Lau, T.L. LauTo present the design and control of a low cost, two‐wheeled, self‐balancing robot for detecting and reporting fire and intruders in a small home/office setting.
The impact of spoken interfaces on the design of service robots
G. Bugmann, J.C. Wolf, P. RobinsonService robots need to be programmable by their users who are in general unskilled in the art of robot programming. We have explored the use of spoken language for programming…
Robot‐by‐voice: experiments on commanding an industrial robot using the human voice
J. Norberto PiresThis paper reports a few results of an ongoing research project that aims to explore ways to command an industrial robot using the human voice. This feature can be interesting…
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0143-991Xe-ISSN:
1758-5791ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou