Industrial Robot: Volume 48 Issue 1

The Pransky interview: Charlie Duncheon, robotics serial entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of Celltrio

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…

Target dynamic grasping during mobile robot movement based on learning methods

Enbo Li, Haibo Feng, Yanwu Zhai, Zhou Haitao, Li Xu, Yili Fu

One of the development trends of robots is to enable robots to have the ability of anthropomorphic manipulation. Grasping is the first step of manipulation. For mobile manipulator…

Research on key technologies of multi-task-oriented live maintenance robots for Ultra High Voltage multi-split transmission lines

Wei Jiang, Dehua Zou, Xiao Zhou, Gan Zuo, Gao Cheng Ye, Hong Jun Li

The purpose of this study is to solve the key technical problems of the practical application of electric robots. The UHV multi-split transmission line power cable operation robot…

Control of the two-wheeled inverted pendulum (TWIP) robot in presence of model uncertainty and motion restriction

Zhou Haitao, Haibo Feng, Li Xu, Songyuan Zhang, Yili Fu

The purpose of this paper is to improve control performance and safety of a real two-wheeled inverted pendulum (TWIP) robot by dealing with model uncertainty and motion…

The Chinese robot industry

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide an insight into China’s rapidly developing robot industry.

Dynamic categorization of 3D objects for mobile service robots

Reyes Rios-Cabrera, Ismael Lopez-Juarez, Alejandro Maldonado-Ramirez, Arturo Alvarez-Hernandez, Alan de Jesus Maldonado-Ramirez

This paper aims to present an object detection methodology to categorize 3D object models in an efficient manner. The authors propose a dynamically generated hierarchical…

Effectiveness of multi-gated sequence model for the learning of kinematics and dynamics of an industrial robot

Aditya Singh, Padmakar Pandey, G.C. Nandi

For efficient trajectory control of industrial robots, a cumbersome computation for inverse kinematics and inverse dynamics is needed, which is usually developed using spatial…

Optimal trajectory planning of industrial robot for improving positional accuracy

Amruta Rout, Deepak BBVL, Bibhuti B. Biswal, Golak Bihari Mahanta

The purpose of this paper is to improve the positional accuracy, smoothness on motion and productivity of industrial robot through the proposed optimal joint trajectory planning…

Research on the virtual reality technology of a pipeline welding robot

Yu Luo, Zewei Fang, Juzhi Guo, Hao Lu, Juan Li

This paper aims to improve the scene sense of a virtual scene, the welding model of a virtual reality system of riser automatic equipment was constructed using Unity3D and UG…

Automatic robotic recharging systems – development and challenges

Zhuming Bi, Chaomin Luo, Zhonghua Miao, Bing Zhang, Chris W.J. Zhang

Since the market penetrations of service robots are only successful to a limited types of services, the purpose of the paper is to look into the reasons why the market…

Interfacing an industrial robot and MATLAB for predictive visual servoing

Megha G. Krishnan, Abhilash T. Vijayan, Ashok S.

Real-time implementation of sophisticated algorithms on robotic systems demands a rewarding interface between hardware and software components. Individual robot manufacturers have…

Double-boundary interval fault-tolerant control for a multi-vector propulsion ROV with thruster failure

Liqin Zhou, Changbin Wang, Lin Li, Chengxi Zhang, Dalei Song, Chong Li

A novel fault-tolerant control (FTC) method is proposed to assure the stability of the remote-operated vehicle (ROV) by considering the thruster failure-induced model…

Research on the influence of ground effect on the performance of robotic fish propelled by oscillating paired pectoral fins

Hongwei Ma, Shuai Ren, Junxiang Wang, Hui Ren, Yang Liu, Shusheng Bi

This paper aims to carry out the research on the influence of ground effect on the performance of robotic fish propelled by oscillating paired pectoral fins.

Comprehensive study of skid-steer wheeled mobile robots: development and challenges

Rameez Khan, Fahad Mumtaz Malik, Abid Raza, Naveed Mazhar

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and unified presentation of recent developments in skid-steer wheeled mobile robots (SSWMR) with regard to its control…

A novel method to identify DH parameters of the rigid serial-link robot based on a geometry model

Tao Zhang, Yuntao Song, Huapeng Wu, Qi Wang

Every geometric model corresponding to a unique feature whose errors of parameters uncorrelated, so the linearization technique can be successfully applied. The solution of a…