Industrial Robot: Volume 47 Issue 4
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
Humanoid robots from the past to the present
Robert BogueThis paper aims to provide technical details of humanoid robot developments from the 1970s to the present day and to consider their potential applications and prospects.
High torque realization of the stepping over gait for a humanoid robot
Keqiang Bai, Yunzhi Luo, Guanwu Jiang, Guoli Jiang, Li GuoThis paper aims to propose a pulsing type joint servo driver-based obstacle surmounting method for a humanoid robot according to the whole-body dynamics model, which fully takes…
Design and control of an exoskeleton robot with EMG-driven electrical stimulation for upper limb rehabilitation
Yassine Bouteraa, Ismail Ben Abdallah, Ahmed ElmogyThe purpose of this paper is to design and develop a new robotic device for the rehabilitation of the upper limbs. The authors are focusing on a new symmetrical robot which can be…
Workspace analysis of Cartesian robot system for kiwifruit harvesting
ChiKit Au, Joshua Barnett, Shen Hin Lim, Mike DukeThis paper aims to investigate if a Cartesian robot system for kiwifruit harvesting works more effectively and efficiently than an articulated robot system. The robot is a key…
Hybrid calibration and detection approach for mobile robotic manufacturing systems
Jing Bai, Yuchang Zhang, Xiansheng Qin, Zhanxi Wang, Chen ZhengThe purpose of this paper is to present a visual detection approach to predict the poses of target objects placed in arbitrary positions before completing the corresponding tasks…
Robot-assisted 3D digital reconstruction of heritage artifacts: area similarity approach
Rajkumar Gothandaraman, Sreekumar MuthuswamyThis paper aims to propose a system to acquire images automatically for digital reconstruction of heritage artifacts using a six-degree of freedom industrial manipulator.
Optimal path search and control of mobile robot using hybridized sine-cosine algorithm and ant colony optimization technique
Saroj Kumar, Dayal R. Parhi, Manoj Kumar Muni, Krishna Kant PandeyThis paper aims to incorporate a hybridized advanced sine-cosine algorithm (ASCA) and advanced ant colony optimization (AACO) technique for optimal path search with control over…
Offline programming method and implementation of industrial robot grinding based on VTK
Lei Hong, Baosheng Wang, XiaoLan Yang, Yuguo Wang, Zhong LinThe purpose of this paper is to present a robotic off-line programming method for freeform surface grinding based on visualization toolkit (VTK). Nowadays, manual grinding and…
Image-based control of delta parallel robots via enhanced LCM-CSM to track moving objects
J. Guillermo Lopez-Lara, Mauro Eduardo Maya, Alejandro González, Antonio Cardenas, Liliana FelixThe purpose of this paper is to present a new vision-based control method, which enables delta-type parallel robots to track and manipulate objects moving in arbitrary…
Plane-based stairway mapping for legged robot locomotion
Seungjun Woo, Francisco Yumbla, Chanyong Park, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Hyungpil MoonThe purpose of this study is to propose a novel plane-based mapping method for legged-robot navigation in a stairway environment.
A novel multi-brand robotic software interface for industrial additive manufacturing cells
Carlos Ye Zhu, J. Norberto Pires, Amin AzarThis study aims to report the development of a provisional robotic cell for additive manufacturing (AM) of metallic parts. To this end, the paper discusses cross-disciplinary…
Deep instance segmentation and 6D object pose estimation in cluttered scenes for robotic autonomous grasping
Yongxiang Wu, Yili Fu, Shuguo WangThis paper aims to design a deep neural network for object instance segmentation and six-dimensional (6D) pose estimation in cluttered scenes and apply the proposed method in…
A survey of energy-efficient motion planning for wheeled mobile robots
Haojie Zhang, Yudong Zhang, Tiantian YangAs wheeled mobile robots find increasing use in outdoor applications, it becomes more important to reduce energy consumption to perform more missions efficiently with limit energy…
Dynamical system based variable admittance control for physical human-robot interaction
Feifei Bian, Danmei Ren, Ruifeng Li, Peidong Liang, Ke Wang, Lijun ZhaoThe purpose of this paper is to enable robots to intelligently adapt their damping characteristics and motions in a reactive fashion toward human inputs and task requirements…
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou