Industrial Robot: Volume 42 Issue 2

The Pransky interview: Dr Esben Ostergaard, inventor, co-founder and CTO of Universal Robots

Joanne Pransky

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

Miniature and microrobots: a review of recent developments

Robert Bogue

– This paper aims to provide an insight into recent miniaturised robot developments and applications.

A biomimetic chewing robot of redundantly actuated parallel mechanism

Guifei Wang, Ming Cong, Weiliang Xu, Haiying Wen, Jing Du

This paper aims to describe how a novel biomimetic chewing robot was designed, including its motion, force, control and mechanical designs, and shows some initial experiments…

Rough set based modeling for welding groove bottom state in narrow gap MAG welding

Wenhang Li, Jing Wu, Ting Hu, Feng Yang

This paper aim to build an information fusion model that can predict the bottom shape of welding groove for better welding quality control. Arc sensor is widely used in seam…

Research on a visual weld detection method based on invariant moment features

Zeng Jinle, Zou Yirong, Du Dong, Chang Baohua, Pan Jiluan

This paper aims to develop a feasible visual weld detection method to solve the problems in multi-layer welding detection (e.g. cover pass welding detection) for seam tracking and…

Hexapod moving in complex terrains via a new adaptive CPG gait design

Hung-Yuan Chung, Chun-Cheng Hou, Sheng-Yen Hsu

This paper aims to use the Matsuoka’s neural oscillators as the basic units of central pattern generator (CPG), and to offer a new CPG architecture consisting of a dual neural CPG…

Robotic microassembly for meso-scale application

Xin Ye, Jun Gao, Zhijing Zhang, Chao Shao, Pan Liu

The purpose of this paper is to design and develop 14-degree of freedom (DOF) robotic micromanipulator with which LIGA devices and axle hole part can be both manipulated and…

Printable modular robot: an application of rapid prototyping for flexible robot design

Dennis Krupke, Florens Wasserfall, Norman Hendrich, Jianwei Zhang

– This paper aims to present the design of a modular robot with 3D-printing technology.

Acquisition of welding skills in industrial robots

J.F. Aviles-Viñas, I. Lopez-Juarez, R. Rios-Cabrera

– The purpose of this paper was to propose a method based on an Artificial Neural Network and a real-time vision algorithm, to learn welding skills in industrial robotics.

Redundancy-based optimization approach to optimize robotic cell behaviour: application to robotic machining

Laurent Sabourin, Kévin Subrin, Richard Cousturier, Grigoré Gogu, Youcef Mezouar

The robot offers interesting capabilities, but suffers from a lack of stiffness. The proposed solution is to introduce redundancies for the overall improvement of different…