Industrial Robot: Volume 43 Issue 1

The Pransky interview: Dr Steve Cousins, CEO, Savioke, Entrepreneur and Innovator

Joanne Pransky

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

Europe continues to lead the way in the collaborative robot business

Robert Bogue

– This paper aims to provide a European perspective on the collaborative robot business and to consider the factors governing future market development.

Vanishing points estimation and road scene understanding based on Bayesian posterior probability

Huajun Liu, Cailing Wang, Jingyu Yang

– This paper aims to present a novel scheme of multiple vanishing points (VPs) estimation and corresponding lanes identification.

Pose-estimation and reorientation of pistons for robotic bin-picking

Jianhua Su, Zhi-Yong Liu, Hong Qiao, Chuankai Liu

Picking up pistons in arbitrary poses is an important step on car engine assembly line. The authors usually use vision system to estimate the pose of the pistons and then guide a…

KidVO: a kinodynamically consistent algorithm for online motion planning in dynamic environments

Mostafa Mahmoodi, Khalil Alipour, Hadi Beik Mohammadi

The purpose of this paper is to propose an efficient method, called kinodynamic velocity obstacle (KidVO), for motion planning of omnimobile robots considering kinematic and…

Goal-directed affordance prediction at the subtask level

Huaqing Min, Chang'an Yi, Ronghua Luo, Jinhui Zhu

This paper aims to present a hybrid control approach that combines learning-based reactive control and affordance-based deliberate control for autonomous mobile robot navigation…

Design of redundant robot painting system for long non-regular duct

Wenzhuo Chen, Yan Chen, Bo Li, Weiming Zhang, Ken Chen

– The purpose of this paper is to design a special automatic redundant robot painting system (RRPS), which can automatically navigate and paint in the long non-regular duct.

Path optimization of excavating manipulator in lunar soil sampling

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

The purpose of this paper is to study the path optimization method of the manipulator in the lunar soil excavation and sampling process. The current research is a practical need…

Wind-driven land-yacht robot mathematical modeling and verification

Jiqing Chen, Shaorong Xie, Jun Luo, Hengyu Li

The purpose of this paper was to solve the shortage of carrying energy in probing robot and make full use of wind resources in the Antarctic expedition by designing a four-wheel…

The design of an intelligent soccer-playing robot

Dan Xiong, Junhao Xiao, Huimin Lu, Zhiwen Zeng, Qinghua Yu, Kaihong Huang, Xiaodong Yi, Zhiqiang Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to design intelligent robots operating in such dynamic environments like the RoboCup Middle-Size League (MSL). In the RoboCup MSL, two teams of five…

Translational shaking tests achieved on a 6-DOF hydraulic parallel manipulator

Jianjun Yao, Le Zhang, Shuo Chen, Zhenshuai Wan, Tao Wang, Qingtao Niu

The paper aims to achieve translational shaking tests on a 6-DOF hydraulic parallel manipulator. Shaking tests are commonly performed on shaking tables, which are generally used…

Hybrid adaptive impedance-leader-follower control for multi-arm coordination manipulators

Xiangyu Liu, Ping Zhang, Guanglong Du

The purpose of this paper is to provide a hybrid adaptive impedance-leader-follower control algorithm for multi-arm coordination manipulators, which is significant for dealing…

A novel method of unmanned surface vehicle autonomous cruise

Shaorong Xie, Peng Wu, Hengli Liu, Peng Yan, Xiaomao Li, Jun Luo, Qingmei Li

This paper aims to propose a new method for combining global path planning with local path planning, to provide an efficient solution for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) path…