Industrial Robot: Volume 43 Issue 3

The Pransky interview: Melonee Wise, CEO, Fetch Robotics

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 experience…

Flexible and soft robotic grippers: the key to new markets?

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of recent commercial and academic developments in flexible and soft grippers and considers their impact on emerging robotic markets.

Ensuring safety in human-robot coexisting environment based on two-level protection

Ping Zhang, Peigen Jin, Guanglong Du, Xin Liu

The purpose of this paper is to provide a novel methodology based on two-level protection for ensuring safety of the moving human who enters the robot’s workspace, which is…

Hybrid position/force control of 6-dof hydraulic parallel manipulator using force and vision

Changhong Gao, Dacheng Cong, Xiaochu Liu, Zhidong Yang, Han Tao

The purpose of this paper is to propose a hybrid position/force control scheme using force and vision for docking task of a six degrees of freedom (6-dof) hydraulic parallel…

Development of a dexterous continuum manipulator for exploration and inspection in confined spaces

Shuntao Liu, Zhixiong Yang, Zhijun Zhu, Liangliang Han, Xiangyang Zhu, Kai Xu

Slim and dexterous manipulators with long reaches can perform various exploration and inspection tasks in confined spaces. This paper aims to present the development of such a…

Kinematic calibration of parallel manipulator with full-circle rotation

Yanbing Ni, Biao Zhang, Wenxia Guo, Cuiyan Shao

The purpose of this paper is to develop a means of the kinematic calibration of a parallel manipulator with full-circle rotation.

Optimal trajectory planning for robotic manipulators using improved teaching-learning-based optimization algorithm

Xueshan Gao, Yu Mu, Yongzhuo Gao

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method of optimal trajectory planning for robotic manipulators that applies an improved teaching-learning-based optimization (ITLBO…

A generic walking pattern generation method for humanoid robot walking on the slopes

Fayong Guo, Tao Mei, Marco Ceccarelli, Ziyi Zhao, Tao Li, Jianghai Zhao

Walking on inclined ground is an important ability for humanoid robots. In general, conventional strategies for walking on slopes lack technical analysis in, first, the waist…

Human-robot collaboration dynamic impact testing and calibration instrument for disposable robot safety artifacts

Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Jae-Myung Yoo, Thomas Oeste

The purpose of this paper is a description of DITCI, its drop loads and sensors, the impact tools, the robot dynamic impact safety artifacts, data analysis, and modeling of test…

On designing an active tail for legged robots: simplifying control via decoupling of control objectives

Steve W. Heim, Mostafa Ajallooeian, Peter Eckert, Massimo Vespignani, Auke Jan Ijspeert

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible roles of active tails for steady-state legged locomotion, focusing on a design principle which simplifies control by…