Industrial Robot: Volume 44 Issue 5

Recent developments in robotic tactile perception

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of recent developments in robotic tactile sensing.

The Pransky interview: Dr Howie Choset, CTO, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute; Professor, Carnegie Mellon; snake robotics inventor and entrepreneur

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…

A gesture-based telemanipulation control for a robotic arm with biofeedback-based grasp

Yassine Bouteraa, Ismail Ben Abdallah

The idea is to exploit the natural stability and performance of the human arm during movement, execution and manipulation. The purpose of this paper is to remotely control a…

A novel human-robot controlling approach inspired by the processes of muscle memory and conditioned reflex

Xiangyu Liu, Ping Zhang, Guanglong Du, Ziping He, Guohao Chen

The purpose of this paper is to provide a novel training-responding controlling approach for human–robot interaction. The approach is inspired by the processes of muscle memory…

Modular design of a teleoperated robotic control system for laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery based on ROS and RT-Middleware

Weibang Bai, Qixin Cao, Pengfei Wang, Peng Chen, Chuntao Leng, Tiewen Pan

Robotic systems for laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery (MIS) always end up with highly sophisticated mechanisms and control schemes – making it a long and hard development…

Seam tracking investigation via striped line laser sensor

Yanbiao Zou, Jinchao Li, Xiangzhi Chen

This paper aims to propose a set of six-axis robot arm welding seam tracking experiment platform based on Halcon machine vision library to resolve the curve seam tracking issue.

Peg-In-Hole search using convex optimization techniques

Kamal Sharma, Varsha Shirwalkar, Prabir K. Pal

This paper aims to provide a solution to the first phase of a force-controlled circular Peg-In-Hole assembly using an industrial robot. The paper suggests motion planning of the…

Paint thickness simulation for painting robot trajectory planning: a review

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

The purposes of this paper are to review the progress of and conclude the trend for paint thickness simulation for painting robot trajectory planning.

Analysis of non-geometric accuracy effects of articulated robots

Gregor Lux, Marco Ulrich, Thomas Baker, Martin Hutterer, Gunther Reinhart

Articulated robots are widely used in industrial applications owing to their high repeatability accuracy. In terms of new applications such as robot-based inspection systems, the…

Robust dexterous telemanipulation following object-orientation commands

Andrés Montaño, Raúl Suárez

This paper aims to present a procedure to change the orientation of a grasped object using dexterous manipulation. The manipulation is controlled by teleoperation in a very simple…

Trajectory evaluation for manipulators with motion and sensor uncertainties

Ruolong Qi, Weijia Zhou, Wang Tiejun

Uncertainty can arise for a manipulator because its motion can deviate unpredictably from the assumed dynamical model and because sensors might provide information regarding the…

Autonomous location control of a robot manipulator for live maintenance of high-voltage transmission lines

Wei Jiang, Gongping Wu, Fei Fan, Wei Wang, Jie Zhang, Xuhui Ye, Peng Zhou

This paper aims to develop a robot for tightening charged bolt to solve the shortcomings of high labor intensity, low efficiency, high risk and poor reliability in artificially…