Industrial Robot: Volume 41 Issue 1

The Pransky interview: Dr Paolo Pirjanian, CTO of iRobot Corporation

Joanne Pransky

PhD/inventor builds consumer robot start-up company based on low-cost, groundbreaking visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) visual sensors and NorthStar® navigation…

User studies on teleoperation of robots for plant inspection

Ludger Schmidt, Jens Hegenberg, Liubov Cramar

To avoid harm to humans, environment, and capital goods, hazardous or explosive gases that are possibly escaping from industrial and infrastructure facilities of the gas and oil…

An event-controlled online trajectory generator based on the human-robot interaction force processing

Sarra Jlassi, Sami Tliba, Yacine Chitour

The problem of robotic co-manipulation is often addressed using impedance control based methods where the authors seek to establish a mathematical relation between the velocity of…

Mantis: hybrid leg-wheel ground mobile robot

Luca Bruzzone, Pietro Fanghella

The aim of the research is the development of a small-scale ground mobile robot for surveillance and inspection; the main design goals are mobility in indoor environments with…

VirSense: a novel haptic device with fixed-base motors and a gravity compensation system

Ahmad Mashayekhi, Ali Nahvi, Mojtaba Yazdani, Majid Mohammadi Moghadam, Mohammadreza Arbabtafti, Mohsen Norouzi

This paper aims to present the design and implementation of VirSense, a novel six-DOF haptic interface system, with an emphasis on its gravity compensation and fixed-base motors…

EuRathlon: the autonomous robot challenge

Robert Bogue

This article aims to describe euRathlon 2013, the first competitive event in a three-year, EU-funded programme for autonomous robots, which was held in Germany in September 2013…

A new asymmetrical mass distribution method on the analysis of universal “force-sensing” model for 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator

Lingtao Yu, Huajian Song, Tao Wang, Zhengyu Wang, Liqiang Sun, Zhijiang Du

The characteristic of static is quite important especially for the manipulator with force feedback. This paper aims to improve the traditional static model by considering the…

Robust industrial robot real-time positioning system using VW-camera-space manipulation method

Yong Liu, Dingbing Shi, Steven Baard Skaar

Vision-based positioning without camera calibration, using uncalibrated industrial robots, is a challenging research problem. To address the issue, an uncalibrated industrial…

Unmanned vehicles while becoming smaller and smarter are addressing new applications in medical, agriculture, in addition to military and security

Richard Bloss

– Review of the most recent unmanned vehicle show in Washington DC with emphasis on the new robot innovations and applications on display. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Motion planning for a new-model obstacle-crossing mobile welding robot

Tao Zhang, Minghui Wu, Yanzheng Zhao, Shanben Chen

The purpose of this paper is to discuss motion planning about crossing obstacles and welding trajectory for a new-model mobile obstacle-crossing welding robot system. The robot…

Mechatronic design and experimental validation of a novel robotic hand

Giorgio Figliolini, Pierluigi Rea

The subject of the paper is the mechatronic design of a novel robotic hand, cassino-underactuated-multifinger-hand (Ca.U.M.Ha.), along with its prototype and the experimental…

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