Industrial Robot: Volume 47 Issue 5

The Pransky interview: Dr. Tessa Lau, Founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics

Joanne Pransky

The purpose of this paper is to provide a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and…

2D lidar to kinematic chain calibration using planar features of indoor scenes

Bernardo Lourenço, Tiago Madeira, Paulo Dias, Vitor M. Ferreira Santos, Miguel Oliveira

2D laser rangefinders (LRFs) are commonly used sensors in the field of robotics, as they provide accurate range measurements with high angular resolution. These sensors can be…

Design of admittance controller with sliding mode based on disturbance observer for elbow joint actuated by pneumatic muscles

Binrui Wang, Jiqing Huang, Guoyang Shen, Dijian Chen

Active compliance control is the key technology for Tri-Co robots (coexisting–cooperative–cognitive robots) to interact with the environment and people. This study aims to make…

Task motion planning for anthropomorphic arms based on human arm movement primitives

Shiqiu Gong, Jing Zhao, Ziqiang Zhang, Biyun Xie

This paper aims to introduce the human arm movement primitive (HAMP) to express and plan the motions of anthropomorphic arms. The task planning method is established for the…

Robots in a contagious world

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to show how robotic technology is being used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Comparative study of various machine learning algorithms and Denavit–Hartenberg approach for the inverse kinematic solutions in a 3-PPSS parallel manipulator

Mervin Joe Thomas, Mithun M. Sanjeev, A.P. Sudheer, Joy M.L.

This paper aims to use different machine learning (ML) algorithms for the prediction of inverse kinematic solutions in parallel manipulators (PMs) to overcome the computational…

AdaptPack Studio: an automated intelligent framework for offline factory programming

André Luiz Castro, João Pedro Carvalho de Souza, Luís F. Rocha, Manuel F. Silva

This paper aims to propose an automated framework for agile development and simulation of robotic palletizing cells. An automatic offline programming tool, for a variety of robot…

An intelligent robot for indoor substation inspection

Chenjie Wang, Lu Yin, Qing Zhao, Wei Wang, Chengyuan Li, Bin Luo

To ensure the safety of electric power supply, it is necessary to inspect substation equipment. With the dramatic increase in the number of substations, especially indoor…

AdaptPack studio translator: translating offline programming to real palletizing robots

João Pedro Carvalho de Souza, André Luiz Castro, Luís F. Rocha, Manuel F. Silva

This paper aims to propose a translation library capable of generating robots proprietary code after their offline programming has been performed in a software application, named…

Development of a solution for adding a collaborative robot to an industrial AGV

Floyd D'Souza, João Costa, J. Norberto Pires

The Industry 4.0 initiative – with its ultimate objective of revolutionizing the supply-chain – putted more emphasis on smart and autonomous systems, creating new opportunities to…

Design and experimental tests of an active cooling system for a kind of in-vessel inspection manipulator

Liang Du, Wei-Jun Zhang, Jian-Jun Yuan

This paper aims to present the design and experimental tests of an active circulating cooling system for the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in-vessel inspection…

Implementation of passive compliance training on a parallel ankle rehabilitation robot to enhance safety

Jianfeng Li, Wenpei Fan, Mingjie Dong, Xi Rong

The purpose of this paper is to implement a passive compliance training strategy for our newly designed 2-UPS/RRR parallel ankle rehabilitation robot (PARR) to enhance its…

Technology jump in the industry: human–robot cooperation in production

Zoltan Dobra, Krishna S. Dhir

Recent years have seen a technological change, Industry 4.0, in the manufacturing industry. Human–robot cooperation, a new application, is increasing and facilitating…

Spin-type forward motion mode based on double steering wheel parking AGV

Ting Pan, Jiaqing Yan, Shenyun Zhou, Yingjie Cai, Congda Lu

The purpose of this paper is to propose the situation that the existing parking automated guided vehicle (AGV) has a single walking mode, a spin forward motion mode based on a…