Industrial Robot: Volume 47 Issue 6

The role of augmented reality in robotics

Robert Bogue

The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into how augmented reality (AR) technologies are being applied to robotics.

The Pransky interview: Dr. Hugh Herr – Professor, MIT Media Lab; Director, Biomechatronics Group and Co-director, MIT Center for Extreme Bionics; Founder, BionX Medical Technologies Inc.

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…

NAO robot obstacle avoidance based on fuzzy Q-learning

Shuhuan Wen, Xueheng Hu, Zhen Li, Hak Keung Lam, Fuchun Sun, Bin Fang

This paper aims to propose a novel active SLAM framework to realize avoid obstacles and finish the autonomous navigation in indoor environment.

Collision detection and force control based on the impedance approach and dynamic modelling

Pengcheng Wang, Dengfeng Zhang, Baochun Lu

This paper aims to address the collision problem between robot and the external environment (including human) in an unstructured situation. A new collision detection and torque…

Research on the shared control technology for robotic wheelchairs based on topological map

Fei Wang, Yuqiang Liu, Yahui Zhang, Yu Gao, Ling Xiao, Chengdong Wu

A robotic wheelchair system was designed to assist disabled people with disabilities to walk.

Study on multi-section continuum robot wire-tension feedback control and load manipulability

Azamat Nurlanovich Yeshmukhametov, Koichi Koganezawa, Zholdas Buribayev, Yedilkhan Amirgaliyev, Yoshio Yamamoto

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel hybrid pre-tension mechanism for continuum manipulators to prevent wire slack and improve continuum robot payload capacity, as well…

A new joint friction model for parameter identification and sensor-less hand guiding in industrial robots

Guanghui Liu, Qiang Li, Lijin Fang, Bing Han, Hualiang Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new joint friction model, which can accurately model the real friction, especially in cases with sudden changes in the motion direction…

Robot posture generation method for laser melting deposition

Huadong Zheng, Caidong Wang, Zhigen Fei, Lumin Chen, Yan Cheng

This paper aims to provide a posture generation method of robot deposition paths based on intersection topology, which is helpful to contribute to improving the flexibility and…

Fault data screening and failure rate prediction framework-based bathtub curve on industrial robots

Bin Bai, Ze Li, Qiliang Wu, Ce Zhou, Junyi Zhang

This study aims to obtained the failure probability distributions of subsystems for industrial robot and filtrate its fault data considering the complicated influencing factors of…

Improved random sampling consensus algorithm for vision navigation of intelligent harvester robot

Bin Li, Yu Yang, Chengshuai Qin, Xiao Bai, Lihui Wang

Focusing on the problem that the visual detection algorithm of navigation path line in intelligent harvester robot is susceptible to interference and low accuracy, a navigation…

Constructing common height maps with various entropy-based similarity metrics and utilizing layering method for heterogeneous robot teams

Mehmet Caner Akay, Hakan Temeltaş

Heterogeneous teams consisting of unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles are being used for different types of missions such as surveillance, tracking and…

Master-slave control and evaluation of force sensing for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery

Kun Li, Shuai Ji, Guojun Niu, Yue Ai, Bo Pan, Yili Fu

Existing robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) system lacks of force feedback, and it cannot provide the surgeon with interaction forces between the surgical…

Deformation prediction based on an adaptive GA-BPNN and the online compensation of a 5-DOF hybrid robot

YuBo Sun, Juliang Xiao, Haitao Liu, Tian Huang, Guodong Wang

The purpose of this paper is to accurately obtain the deformation of a hybrid robot and rapidly enable real-time compensation in friction stir welding (FSW). In this paper, a…

Review on state-of-the-art dynamic task allocation strategies for multiple-robot systems

Seenu N., Kuppan Chetty R.M., Ramya M.M., Mukund Nilakantan Janardhanan

This paper aims to present a concise review on the variant state-of-the-art dynamic task allocation strategies. It presents a thorough discussion about the existing dynamic task…