Industrial Robot: Volume 45 Issue 2

Applications of robotics in test and inspection

Robert Bogue

The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight on the use of robots in a range of industrial test and inspection applications.

Dr Amit Goffer, co-founder at UPnRIDE, serial inventor and entrepreneur

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…

Force sensing drill jig for robotic assisted drilling

Hamza Bendemra, Toufik Al Khawli, Muddasar Anwar, Dewald Swart, Cesare Stefanini

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel force sensing jig for robot-assisted drilling used to drill holes for the fastening of floating nut plates in aircraft assembly.

An underwater robot with self-adaption mechanism for cleaning steel pipes with variable diameters

Jinchang Fan, Canjun Yang, Yanhu Chen, Hansong Wang, Zhengming Huang, Zhicheng Shou, Ping Jiang, Qianxiao Wei

This paper aims to present an underwater climbing robot for wiping off marine life from steel pipes (e.g. jackets of oil platforms). The self-adaption mechanism that consists of a…

Design and analysis of a climbing robot for pylon maintenance

Xiaolong Lu, Shiping Zhao, Xiaoyu Liu, Yishu Wang

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and development of “Pylon-Climber II”, a 5-DOF biped climbing robot (degree of freedom – DOF) for moving on the external…

An industrial security system for human-robot coexistence

Philip Long, Christine Chevallereau, Damien Chablat, Alexis Girin

The installation of industrial robots requires security barriers, a costly, time-consuming exercise. Collaborative robots may offer a solution; however, these systems only comply…

Hybrid obstacle avoidance system with vision and ultrasonic sensors for multi-rotor MAVs

Qiang Zhou, Danping Zou, Peilin Liu

This paper aims to develop an obstacle avoidance system for a multi-rotor micro aerial vehicle (MAV) that flies in indoor environments which usually contain transparent…

Stretched backboneless continuum manipulator driven by cannula tendons

GuoHua Gao, Han Ren, QiXiao Xia, Hao Wang, LianShi Li

The purpose of this paper is to present a stretched backboneless continuum manipulator, which aims to provide sufficient inner room for potential transportation of objects or…

Implementation of open-architecture kinematic controller for articulated robots under ROS

Yongzhuo Gao, Zhijiang Du, Xueshan Gao, Yanyu Su, Yu Mu, Li Ning Sun, Wei Dong

This paper aims to present an open-architecture kinematic controller, which was developed for articulated robots, facing the demands of various applications and low cost on robot…

Integrated virtual impedance control based pose correction for a simultaneous three-fingered end-effector

Hong Liu, Jun Wu, Shaowei Fan, Minghe Jin, Chunguang Fan

This paper aims to present a pose correction method based on integrated virtual impedance control for avoiding collision and reducing impact.

Computational and experimental study on dynamics behavior of a bionic underwater robot with multi-flexible caudal fins

Ou Xie, Boquan Li, Qin Yan

This paper aims to develop a novel type of bionic underwater robot (BUR) with multi-flexible caudal fins. With the coordinate movement of multi-caudal fins, BUR will combine the…

Road area detection method based on DBNN for robot navigation using single camera in outdoor environments

K.M. Ibrahim Khalilullah, Shunsuke Ota, Toshiyuki Yasuda, Mitsuru Jindai

The purpose of this study is to develop a cost-effective autonomous wheelchair robot navigation method that assists the aging population.

Smooth transition adaptive hybrid impedance control for connector assembly

Jun Wu, Fenglei Ni, Yuanfei Zhang, Shaowei Fan, Qi Zhang, Jiayuan Lu, Hong Liu

This paper aims to present a smooth transition adaptive hybrid impedance control for compliant connector assembly.