Industrial Robot: Volume 45 Issue 5

An improved kinematic model for serial robot calibration based on local POE formula using position measurement

Hua Liu, Weidong Zhu, Huiyue Dong, Yinglin Ke

This paper aims to propose a calibration model for kinematic parameters identification of serial robot to improve its positioning accuracy, which only requires position…

Exoskeletons – a review of industrial applications

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of the emerging families of robotic exoskeletons that are aimed at industrial applications.

The Pransky interview: Professor Robin R. Murphy, Co-founder of the Field of Disaster Robotics and Founder of Roboticists Without Borders

Joanne Pransky

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 experience of a…

Hand–eye calibration of arc welding robot and laser vision sensor through semidefinite programming

Yanbiao Zou, Xiangzhi Chen

This paper aims to propose a hand–eye calibration method of arc welding robot and laser vision sensor by using semidefinite programming (SDP).

Sensorless force estimation and control of Delta robot with limited access interface

Hongtai Cheng, Hongfei Jiang

Delta robot is a parallel robot specifically designed for high-speed pick and place tasks. However, sometimes they are asked to perform additional assembling and squeezing…

Force and motion control of a tendon-driven hand exoskeleton actuated by shape memory alloys

Saber Kazeminasab, Alireza Hadi, Khalil Alipour, Mohammad Elahinia

Many people suffer from injuries related to their hand. This research aims to focus on the improvement of the previously developed smart glove by using position and force control…

Adaptable legged-magnetic adhesion tracked wheel robotic platform for misaligned mooring chain climbing and inspection

Mahesh Dissanayake, Tariq Pervez Sattar, Shehan Lowe, Ivan Pinson, Tat-hean Gan

Mooring chains used to stabilise offshore floating platforms are often subjected to harsh environmental conditions on a daily basis, i.e. high tidal waves, storms, etc. Therefore…

Instrumentation and self-repairing control for resilient multi-rotor aircrafts

Zhipeng Wang, Zhiqin Qian, Ziye Song, Hongzhou Liu, Wenjun Zhang, Zhuming Bi

Even though multi-rotor aircrafts are becoming more and more prevalent in the fields of aerial photography, agricultural spraying, disaster searching and rescuing, how to achieve…

Turning strategies for the bounding quadruped robot with an active spine

Zhong Wei, Guangming Song, Huiyu Sun, Qien Qi, Yuan Gao, Guifang Qiao

This paper aims to study the turning strategies for the bounding quadruped robot with an active spine and explore the significant role of the spine in the turning locomotion.

Off-line path programming for three-dimensional robotic friction stir welding based on Bézier curves

Komlan Kolegain, François Leonard, Sandra Chevret, Amarilys Ben Attar, Gabriel Abba

Robotic friction stir welding (RFSW) is an innovative process which enables solid-state welding of aluminum parts using robots. A major drawback of this process is that the robot…

Graph-based visual odometry for VSLAM

Shaoyan Xu, Tao Wang, Congyan Lang, Songhe Feng, Yi Jin

Typical feature-matching algorithms use only unary constraints on appearances to build correspondences where little structure information is used. Ignoring structure information…

Development and analysis of DAYANI arc contour intelligent technique for navigation of two-wheeled mobile robot

Dayal R. Parhi, Animesh Chhotray

This paper aims to generate an obstacle free real time optimal path in a cluttered environment for a two-wheeled mobile robot (TWMR).