Industrial Robot: Volume 46 Issue 6

Climbing robots: recent research and emerging applications

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of recent research into robots capable of ascending vertical or near-vertical surfaces and to illustrate how the ability to climb is set to…

The Pransky interview: Brian Carlisle, pioneer, robotics entrepreneur, President and Co-Founder of Precise Automation

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…

Vision guided geometric regulation of PTC frame structures

Peng Sun, Naiguang Lu, Mingli Dong, Xiaoping Lou, Zexiang Tan

Geometric structure error of parabolic trough concentrator (PTC) frame affects the installation accuracy of mirrors and absorber tubes and thus decreases the solar energy…

Design and control of a novel all-terrains wearable vehicle

B.M. Sayed, Mohamed Fanni, Mohamed S. Raessa, Abdelfatah Mohamed

This paper aims to design and control of a novel compact transportation system called the “wearable vehicle”. The wearable vehicle allows for traversing all types of terrains…

Time-optimal path tracking for robots a numerical integration-like approach combined with an iterative learning algorithm

Lin Li, Jiadong Xiao, Yanbiao Zou, Tie Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a precise time-optimal path tracking approach for robots under kinematic and dynamic constraints to improve the work efficiency of robots…

CPG-fuzzy-based control of a cownose-ray-like fish robot

Yong Cao, Yang Lu, Yueri Cai, Shusheng Bi, Guang Pan

This paper aims to imitate a cownose ray to develop a fish robot with paired flexible multi-fin-ray oscillating pectoral fins (OPFs) and control it to accomplish vivid stable 3-D…

Design and application of integrated parabolic soft actuator

Dong Liu, Minghao Wang, Ming Cong

The purpose of this paper is to solve the common problems of outer phenomenon and stress concentration among pneumatic networks soft actuators.

Gesture-based human-robot interface for dual-robot with hybrid sensors

Bo Zhang, Guanglong Du, Wenming Shen, Fang Li

The purpose of this paper is the research of a novel gesture-based dual-robot collaborative interaction interface, which achieves the gesture recognition when both hands overlap…

Optimal synthesis of pose repeatability for collaborative robots based on the ISO 9283 standard

Mingwei Hu, Hongguang Wang, Xinan Pan, Yong Tian

The purpose of this paper is to search the optimal arrangement scheme of random motion accuracy of joints for optimal synthesis of pose repeatability which can make robot design…

Conceptual design and analysis of a dredger robot for irrigation canals

Shima Shademani, Payam Zarafshan, M. Khashehchi, M.H. Kianmehr, S.M. Hashemy

This paper aims to present a solution to dredging the irrigation canals using a robotic system. Considering the importance of irrigating water, the waste within the water canals…

A self-tuning trajectory tracking controller for wheeled mobile robots

Pouya Panahandeh, Khalil Alipour, Bahram Tarvirdizadeh, Alireza Hadi

Trajectory tracking is a common problem in the field of mobile robots which has attracted a lot of attention in the past two decades. Therefore, besides the search for new…

Fuzzy sliding mode control of a wearable rehabilitation robot for wrist and finger

Alireza Abbasi Moshaii, Majid Mohammadi Moghaddam, Vahid Dehghan Niestanak

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new design for a finger and wrist rehabilitation robot. Furthermore, a fuzzy sliding mode controller has been designed to control the…

Irradiation test and hardness design for mobile rescue robot in nuclear environment

Wenrui Gao, Weidong Wang, Hongbiao Zhu, Shunping Zhao, Guofu Huang, Zhijiang Du

The paper aims to improve the radiation-proof capability of the self-designed mobile robot with a 7-DOF manipulator, enabling the long-playing inspection and intervention under…

Convolutional network-based method for wall-climbing robot direction angle measurement

Qiang Zhou, Xin Li

In the past several decades, considerable research has been dedicated to the development of mobile systems that can traverse vertical surfaces. For the control of the climbing…

Research on robust stabilization control of high-voltage power maintenance robot under wind load action

Wei Jiang, Yu Yan, Qiao Min Li, An Zhang, Hong Jun Li, Daogeng Jiang

The power cable maintenance robot is an important equipment to ensure the reliable operation of high-voltage transmission (HVT) lines and is a useful exploration to achieve…

Fast and robust visual odometry with a low-cost IMU in dynamic environments

Erliang Yao, Hexin Zhang, Haitao Song, Guoliang Zhang

To realize stable and precise localization in the dynamic environments, the authors propose a fast and robust visual odometry (VO) approach with a low-cost Inertial Measurement…