Industrial Robot: Volume 38 Issue 1
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents - Special Issue: Applications Towards Factories of the Future
Your next surgeon may be a robot!
Richard BlossThe purpose of this paper is to review the progress that one innovative firm is making in the development and deployment of robots to actually perform surgery on humans with a…
The use of pneumatic artificial muscles in robot construction
Anton Palko, Juraj SmrčekRecent requirements for drive systems in robotic technology, mainly for their performance, performance and weight ratio, compactness with minimal internal structure and with the…
Study on the multi‐manipulator tooth‐arrangement robot for complete denture manufacturing
Zhang Yong‐de, Jiang Jin‐gang, Lv Pei‐jun, Wang YongIt is not an easy and simple task to manufacture a complete denture with high quality. Traditionally, it often needs a medical expert with experience and hand‐on skill, due to the…
Automatic planning and coordinated control for redundant dual‐arm space robot system
Jun Zhou, Xilun Ding, Yu Yue QingThe purpose of this paper is to present a novel automatic planning and coordinated control method of redundant dual‐arm space robot for inner space‐station operation based on…
Robotic edge profiling of complex components
Nirosh Jayaweera, Phil WebbThis paper aims to describe the development and testing of a system for the automated deburring of aero‐engine components.
Implementation of a single motor driven manipulator with multiple joints
Shiqi Li, Yang Liu, Ming XieThe purpose of this paper is to present the design and implementation of a new manipulator with six joints driven by a single DC motor.
Application of service robots for building NDT inspection tasks
K.P. Liu, B.L. Luk, F. Tong, Y.T. ChanBuilding inspection tasks usually involve working at life‐threatening height, especially for high‐rise buildings. The purpose of this paper is to introduce two service robots…
Feature‐fusion based object tracking for robot platforms
Xuguang Zhang, Honghai Liu, Yanjie WangObject tracking has been a challenging problem of robot vision over the decades, which plays a key role in a wide spectrum of visual tracking‐related applications such as…
Modeling of self‐tilt‐up motion for a two‐wheeled inverted pendulum
Shouhong Miao, Qixin CaoThe purpose of this paper is to present a two‐wheeled inverted pendulum with self‐tilt‐up motion ability. With this ability, the two‐wheeled inverted pendulum can erect without…
Case‐based automatic programming in robotic assembly production
Lei Wang, Yajie Tian, Tetsuo SawaragiThe purpose of this paper is to present a case‐based system for offline automatic programming in robotic assembly production. This system can reuse past learned robot programs to…
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou