Industrial Robot: Volume 41 Issue 3

The Pransky interview: Rich Walker, Managing Director at the Shadow Robot Company

Joanne Pransky

This paper aims to present a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal…

Map-based localization for mobile robots in high-occluded and dynamic environments

Yong Wang, Weidong Chen, Jingchuan Wang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a localizability-based particle filtering localization algorithm for mobile robots to maintain localization accuracy in the high-occluded…

Snake robots: A review of research, products and applications

Robert Bogue

– This paper aims to provide details of recent snake robot research, products and applications.

Localization and tracking control for mobile welding robot

Qing Tang

The purpose of this paper is to design the localization and tracking algorithms for our mobile welding robot to carry out the large steel structure welding operations in…

Rao-Blackwellized visual SLAM for small UAVs with vehicle model partition

Tianmiao Wang, Chaolei Wang, Jianhong Liang, Yicheng Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to present a Rao–Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF) approach for the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of small unmanned aerial…

Robust generalized predictive control of the Orthoglide robot

Fabian Andres Lara-Molina, João Maurício Rosário, Didier Dumur, Philippe Wenger

– The purpose of this paper is to address the synthesis and experimental application of a generalized predictive control (GPC) technique on an Orthoglide robot.

Teleoperation of ABB industrial robots

Mohsen Moradi Dalvand, Saeid Nahavandi

The purpose of this paper is to analyse teleoperation of an ABB industrial robot with an ABB IRC5 controller. A method to improve motion smoothness and decrease latency using the…

Vision-based calibration of a Hexa parallel robot

Mehdi Dehghani, Mahdi Ahmadi, Alireza Khayatian, Mohamad Eghtesad, Mehran Yazdi

The purpose of this paper is to present a vision-based method for the kinematic calibration of a six-degrees-of-freedom parallel robot named Hexa using only one Universal Serial…

Modeling of underwater wet welding process based on visual and arc sensor

Bo Chen, Jicai Feng

The purpose of this paper was to use visual and arc sensors to simultaneously obtain the underwater wet welding information, and a weld seam-forming model was made to predict the…

Development of a reliable microgripper system based on failure analysis

Nayyer Abbas Zaidi, Shafaat Ahmed Bazaz

– The purpose of this paper is to present the design of a microgripper system that comprises a dual jaw actuation mechanism with contact sensing.