Industrial Robot: Volume 44 Issue 1

Cloud robotics: a review of technologies, developments and applications

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide an insight into the current state of cloud robotics developments, technology and applications.

The Pransky interview: Gianmarco Veruggio, Director of Research, CNR-IEIIT, Genoa Branch; Robotics Pioneer and Inventor

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…

Pick-place of dynamic objects by robot manipulator based on deep learning and easy user interface teaching systems

Delowar Hossain, Genci Capi, Mitsuru Jindai, Shin-ichiro Kaneko

Development of autonomous robot manipulator for human-robot assembly tasks is a key component to reach high effectiveness. In such tasks, the robot real-time object recognition is…

Improved parameter optimization method for complex assembly process in robotic manufacturing

Heping Chen, Jing Xu, Biao Zhang, Thomas Fuhlbrigge

High precision assembly processes using industrial robots require the process parameters to be tuned to achieve desired performance such as cycle time and first time through rate…

Research on the dynamic characteristics of a 3-DOF parallel tool head

Dong Wang, Jun Wu, Liping Wang, Yuzhe Liu, Guang Yu

The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the time-varying and coupling dynamic characteristics of a 3-DOF parallel tool head.

Pylon-Climber: a novel climbing assistive robot for pylon maintenance

Xiaolong Lu, Shiping Zhao, Deping Yu, Xiaoyu Liu

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and development of “Pylon-Climber”, a pole climbing robot (PCR) for climbing along the corner columns of electricity pylon and…

Stability analysis and control in the process of floating-target capture with hardware-in-the-loop system

Zongwu Xie, Xiaoyu Zhao, Yu Zhang, Qi Zhang, Haitao Yang, Kui Sun, Minghe Jin

The purpose of this paper is to develop an easily implemented and practical stabilizing strategy for the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system. As the status of HIL system in the…

Design and realization of a novel magnetic nutation drive for industry robotic wrist reducer

Ding-jian Huang, Li-gang Yao, Wen-jian Li, Jun Zhang

The purpose of this research is to achieve a novel magnetic nutation drive for an industry robotic wrist reducer.

Autonomous obstacle avoidance of an unmanned surface vehicle based on cooperative manoeuvring

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

Autonomous obstacle avoidance is important in unmanned surface vehicle (USV) navigation. Although the result of obstacle detection is often inaccurate because of the inherent…

Power line robotic device for overhead line inspection and maintenance

Rebecca Miller, Farshid Abbasi, Javad Mohammadpour

This paper aims to focus on the design and testing of a robotic device for power line inspection and cleaning. The focus for this design is on simplicity and compactness with a…

Bio-inspired control strategy study for the quadruped robot with a segmented spine

Chunlei Wang, Ting Zhang, Xiaohui Wei, Yongjun Long, Shigang Wang

This study aims to establish a bio-inspired controller for realizing the bounding gait of a quadruped robot system presented in this paper.

Development of an environment characterization methodology for optimal design of an agricultural robot

Victor Bloch, Avital Bechar, Amir Degani

The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for characterization of the robot environment to help solve such problem as designing an optimal agricultural robot for a…

Design and experiment of a modular multisensory hand for prosthetic applications

Bo Zeng, Shaowei Fan, Li Jiang, Hong Liu

This paper aims to present the design and experiment of a modular multisensory prosthetic hand for applications. Design and experiment of a modular multisensory hand for…

An agile assistant robot integrating operation and rolling locomotion

Yezhuo Li, Yan-An Yao, Junlin Cheng, Yaobin Tian, Ran Liu

The purpose of this paper is to propose an agile assistant robot to be used as a mobile partner with two rotational motions and one translational motion. This robot possesses the…