Industrial Robot: Volume 42 Issue 1
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
The Pransky interview: Dr Rodney Brooks, Robotics Entrepreneur, Founder and CTO of Rethink Robotics
Joanne PranskyThis article, a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal, aims to impart the combined technological, business, and personal experience of a…
Robotic exoskeletons: a review of recent progress
Robert Bogue– This article aims to provide details of recent robotic exoskeleton developments and applications.
Integration of mobile manipulators in an industrial production
Ole Madsen, Simon Bøgh, Casper Schou, Rasmus Skovgaard Andersen, Jens Skov Damgaard, Mikkel Rath Pedersen, Volker KrügerThe purpose of this study has been to evaluate the technology of autonomous mobile manipulation in a real world industrial manufacturing environment. The objective has been to…
Wave-transmitting method for a travelling-wave-type omnidirectional mobile robot
Masashi Konno, Yutaka Mizota, Taro NakamuraThis paper aims to develop a wave-transmitting mechanism for a travelling-wave-type omnidirectional mobile robot. Existing omnidirectional mechanisms are prone to movement…
Motion identification based on sEMG for flexible pneumatic hand rehabilitator
Guanjun Bao, Kun Li, Sheng Xu, Pengcheng Huang, Luan Wu, Qinghua YangThis paper aims to avoid the precise modeling and controlling problems of rigid structures of hand recovery device, by proposing a hand rehabilitator based on flexible pneumatic…
Fuzzy neural network control of the rehabilitation robotic arm driven by pneumatic muscles
Xianzhi Jiang, Zenghuai Wang, Chao Zhang, Liangliang Yang– The main purpose of this paper is to enhance the control performance of the robotic arm by the controller of fuzzy neural network (FNN).
Absolute accuracy analysis and improvement of a hybrid 6-DOF medical robot
Ahmed Joubair, Long Fei Zhao, Pascal Bigras, Ilian BonevThe purpose of this paper is to describe a calibration method developed to improve the accuracy of a six degrees-of-freedom medical robot. The proposed calibration approach aims…
Visual trajectory tracking of industrial manipulator with iterative learning control
Bingxi Jia, Shan Liu, Yi LiuThe purpose of this paper is to propose a more efficient strategy, which is easier to implement, i.e. the engineer can directly operate the target object without the robot to do a…
A vision-based fully-automatic calibration method for hand-eye serial robot
Haixia Wang, Xiao Lu, Zhanyi Hu, Yuxia LiThe purpose of this paper is to present a fully automatic calibration method for hand-eye serial robot system is presented in this paper. The so-called “fully automatic” is meant…
Design of prototype simulation system for driving performance of electromagnetic unmanned robot applied to automotive test
Gang Chen, Wei-gong ZhangThe purpose of this paper is to present a prototype simulation system for driving performance of an electromagnetic unmanned robot applied to automotive test (URAT) to solve that…
Welding robot system applied in sub-sea pipeline-installation
Luo Yu, Jiao Xiangdong, Zhou Canfeng, Chen Jiaqing, Han SuxinThe aim of this study was to develop a new generation of automatic systems based on cutting-edge design and practical welding physics to minimize downtime caused by defects and…
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou