Industrial Robot: Volume 42 Issue 4

The Pransky interview: Dr Robert Ambrose, Chief, Software, Robotics and Simulation Division at NASA

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…

Shape changing and self-reconfiguring robots

Robert Bogue

– This article aims to provide details of recent developments in robots that can change shape and self-reconfigure.

A lightweight robot system designed for the optimisation of an automotive end-off line process station

Matthias Scholer, Matthias Vette, Mueller Rainer

This study aims to deliver an approach of how lightweight robot systems can be used to automate manual processes for higher efficiency, increased process capability and enhanced…

Employing smartphone as on-board navigator in unmanned aerial vehicles: implementation and experiments

Boxin Zhao, Olaf Hellwich, Tianjiang Hu, Dianle Zhou, Yifeng Niu, Lincheng Shen

This study aims to investigate if smartphone sensors can be used in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization system. With the development of technology, smartphones have been…

Evaluation of linear and revolute underactuated grippers for steel foundry operations

Ryan Carpenter, Ross Hatton, Ravi Balasubramanian

– The purpose of this paper is to develop an automated industrial robotic system for handling steel castings of various sizes and shapes in a foundry.

Toward ensuring ethical behavior from autonomous systems: a case-supported principle-based paradigm

Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson

This paper aims to propose a paradigm of case-supported principle-based behavior (CPB) to help ensure ethical behavior of autonomous machines. The requirements, methods…

Design and experiment verification of a new heavy friction-stir-weld robot for large-scale complex surface structures

Jiafeng Wu, Rui Zhang, Guangxin Yang

– This paper aims to present a new friction-stir-weld robot for large-scale complex surface structures, which has high stiffness and good flexibility.

Recognition of initial welding position for large diameter pipeline based on pulse coupled neural network

Li Juan Yang, Pei Huang Lou, Xiao Ming Qian

The main purpose of this paper is to develop a method to recognize the initial welding position for large-diameter pipeline automatically, and introduce the image processing based…

Development of ground experiment system for space end-effector capturing the floating target in 3-dimensional space

Haitao Yang, Zongwu Xie, Kui Sun, Xiaoyu Zhao, Minghe Jin, Cao Li

The purpose of this paper is to develop a set of ground experiment system to verify the basic functions of space effector and the capturing reliability of space end-effector for…

A design approach to the configuration of a prosthetic hand

Li Jiang, Bo Zeng, Shaowei Fan

This paper presents a method to elaborate the selections of these parameters to achieve stable grasps. The performance of a prosthetic hand is mainly determined by its mechanical…

A new variable stiffness robot joint

Yong Tao, Tianmiao Wang, Yunqing Wang, Long Guo, Hegen Xiong, Dong Xu

This study aims to propose a new variable stiffness robot joint (VSR-joint) for operating safely. More and more variable stiffness actuators are being designed and implemented…