Industrial Robot: Volume 43 Issue 5

Editorial

Craig Schlenoff, Stephen Balakirsky, Murad Kurwa

Robots poised to revolutionise agriculture

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of a number of recent and significant agricultural robot research and development activities.

The Pransky interview: Professor Jacob Rosen, Co-Founder of Applied Dexterity and ExoSense

Joanne Pransky

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

Collaborative robots are rapidly providing major improvements in productivity, safety, programing ease, portability and cost while addressing many new applications

Richard Bloss

The purpose of this paper is to review the dramatic entry of collaborative robotics into applications. It also examines the current state of the art for collaborative robotics…

Requirements for building an ontology for autonomous robots

Behzad Bayat, Julita Bermejo-Alonso, Joel Carbonera, Tullio Facchinetti, Sandro Fiorini, Paulo Goncalves, Vitor A.M. Jorge, Maki Habib, Alaa Khamis, Kamilo Melo, Bao Nguyen, Joanna Isabelle Olszewska, Liam Paull, Edson Prestes, Veera Ragavan, Sajad Saeedi, Ricardo Sanz, Mae Seto, Bruce Spencer, Amirkhosro Vosughi, Howard Li

IEEE Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Working Group were divided into subgroups that were in charge of studying industrial robotics, service robotics and autonomous…

Industrial robot capability models for agile manufacturing

Zeid Kootbally

This paper aims to represent a capability model for industrial robot as they pertain to assembly tasks.

The Canonical Robot Command Language (CRCL)

Frederick Proctor, Stephen Balakirsky, Zeid Kootbally, Thomas Kramer, Craig Schlenoff, William Shackleford

This paper aims to describe an information model, the Canonical Robot Command Language (CRCL), which provides a high-level description of robot tasks and associated control and…

An agile robot taping system – modeling, tool design, planning and execution

Qilong Yuan, I-Ming Chen, Teguh Santoso Lembono

Taping, covering objects with masking tapes, is a common process before conducting surface treatments such as plasma spraying and painting. Manual taping is tedious and takes a…

Trajectory planning for a planar macro-micro manipulator of a laser-cutting machine

Emre Uzunoglu, Mehmet Ismet Can Dede, Gökhan Kiper

In the industry, there is always a demand to shorten the task completion durations to maximize the efficiency of the operation. This work focuses on making use of a special type…

Learning of assembly constraints by demonstration and active exploration

Aljaž Kramberger, Rok Piltaver, Bojan Nemec, Matjaž Gams, Aleš Ude

In this paper, the authors aim to propose a method for learning robotic assembly sequences, where precedence constraints and object relative size and location constraints can be…

A review on the evolvement trend of robotic interaction control

Ali Leylavi Shoushtari, Paolo Dario, Stefano Mazzoleni

Interaction plays a significant role in robotics and it is considered in all levels of hardware and software control design. Several models have been introduced and developed for…

A comparison of industrial robots interface: force guidance system and teach pendant operation

Guilherme Boulhosa Rodamilans, Emília Villani, Luís Gonzaga Trabasso, Wesley Rodrigues de Oliveira, Ricardo Suterio

This paper aims to propose an evaluation method to compare two different Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) solutions that can be used for on-line programming in an industrial context…

Test methods for robot agility in manufacturing

Anthony Downs, William Harrison, Craig Schlenoff

This paper aims to define and describe test methods and metrics to assess industrial robot system agility in both simulation and in reality.

Robots collaboration for wearable products lifetime testing

Hank Mao, Lawrence Peng, Zigui Liu, Yongkang Zhen, Murad Kurwa

The purpose of this paper is to find a practical and effective way to test wearing product lifetime with two SCARA robots.