Industrial Robot: Volume 44 Issue 2
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
Domestic robots: Has their time finally come?
Robert BogueThis paper aims to provide details of commercially available domestic robots and recent product developments and consider whether a significant boost in the robot population is…
The Pransky interview: Mitchell Weiss, CTO, Seegrid Corporation
Joanne PranskyThe purpose of this 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…
Robot programming by demonstration using teleoperation through imitation
Abhishek Jha, Shital S. ChiddarwarThis paper aims to present a new learning from demonstration-based trajectory planner that generalizes and extracts relevant features of the desired motion for an industrial robot.
A novel data glove using inertial and magnetic sensors for motion capture and robotic arm-hand teleoperation
Bin Fang, Fuchun Sun, Huaping Liu, Di GuoThe purpose of this paper is to present a novel data glove which can capture the motion of the arm and hand by inertial and magnetic sensors. The proposed data glove is used to…
Tele-operated propeller-type climbing robot for inspection of petrochemical vessels
Mohamed Gouda Alkalla, Mohamed A. Fanni, Abdelfatah M. Mohamed, Shuji HashimotoThe purpose of this paper is to propose a new propeller-type climbing robot called EJBot for climbing various types of structures that include significant obstacles, besides…
Seamless autonomous navigation based on the motion constraint of the mobile robot
Weina Chen, Qinghua Zeng, Jianye Liu, Huizhe WangThe purpose of this paper is to propose a seamless autonomous navigation method based on the motion constraint of the mobile robot, which is able to meet the practical need of…
Benchmarking motion planning algorithms for bin-picking applications
Thomas Fridolin Iversen, Lars-Peter EllekildeFor robot motion planning there exists a large number of different algorithms, each appropriate for a certain domain, and the right choice of planner depends on the specific use…
Which impedance strategy is the most effective for cooperative object manipulation?
Payam Zarafshan, Reza Larimi, S. Ali A. Moosavian, Bruno SicilianoThe purpose of this paper is to present a comparison study of cooperative object manipulation control algorithms. To this end, a full comprehensive survey of the existing control…
Adaptive neural network visual servoing of dual-arm robot for cyclic motion
Jiadi Qu, Fuhai Zhang, Yili Fu, Guozhi Li, Shuxiang GuoThe purpose of this paper is to develop a vision-based dual-arm cyclic motion method, focusing on solving the problems of an uncertain grasp position of the object and the…
Design of an electromagnetic prismatic joint with variable stiffness
Yong Zhao, Jue Yu, Hao Wang, Genliang Chen, Xinmin LaiThis paper aims to propose an electromagnetic prismatic joint with variable stiffness. The joint can absorb the sudden shocks and improve the natural dynamics of robotics. The…
Kinematic calibration of a 3-DOF parallel tool head
Yuzhe Liu, Jun Wu, Liping Wang, Jinsong Wang, Dong Wang, Guang YuThe purpose of this study is to develop a modified parameter identification method and a novel measurement method to calibrate a 3 degrees-of-freedom (3-DOF) parallel tool head…
Application of bio-inspired control of AmphiHex-I in detection of Oncomelania hupensis, the amphibious snail intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum
Youcheng Zhou, Bin Zhong, Tao Fang, Jiming Liu, Xiaonong Zhou, Shiwu ZhangThis paper aims to construct a central pattern generator (CPG) network that comprises coupled nonlinear oscillators to implement diversified locomotion gaits of robot AmphiHex-I…
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou