Industrial Robot: Volume 48 Issue 2

Geoff Howe, senior vice president, Howe and Howe, Inc., a subsidiary of Textron Systems; co-pioneer of robotic firefighting technologies, including Thermite™ firefighting robots

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…

The role of robots in firefighting

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of recently developed firefighting robots and their applications.

Robust visual-inertial odometry with point and line features for blade inspection UAV

Yufei Ma, Shuangxin Wang, Dingli Yu, Kaihua Zhu

This paper aims to enable the unmanned aerial vehicles to inspect the surface condition of wind turbine in close range when the global positioning system signal is not reliable…

Development of a soft cable-driven hand exoskeleton for assisted rehabilitation training

Dawen Xu, Qingcong Wu, Yanghui Zhu

Hand motor dysfunction has seriously reduced people’s quality of life. The purpose of this paper is to solve this problem; different soft exoskeleton robots have been developed…

An integrated vision-based system for efficient robot arm teleoperation

Xin Wu, Canjun Yang, Yuanchao Zhu, Weitao Wu, Qianxiao Wei

This paper aims to present a natural human–robot teleoperation system, which capitalizes on the latest advancements of monocular human pose estimation to simplify scenario…

An improved particle filtering to locate the crop boundary of an unharvested region using vision

Lihui Wang, Chengshuai Qin, Yaoming Li, Jin Chen, Lizhang Xu

Accurately, positioning is a fundamental requirement for vision measurement systems. The calculation of the harvesting width can not only help farmers adjust the direction of the…

Robotic mirror therapy system for lower limb rehabilitation

Gaoxin Cheng, Linsen Xu, Jiajun Xu, Jinfu Liu, Jia Shi, Shouqi Chen, Lei Liu, Xingcan Liang, Yang Liu

This paper aims to develop a robotic mirror therapy system for lower limb rehabilitation, which is applicable for different patients with individual movement disability levels.

Static modeling and analysis of soft manipulator considering environment contact based on segmented constant curvature method

Yinglong Chen, Wenshuo Li, Yongjun Gong

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the deformation of soft manipulators caused by obstacles accurately and the contact force and workspace can be also predicted.

Analysis of a novel manipulator with low melting point alloy initiated stiffness variation and shape detection for minimally invasive surgery

Xiaoyong Wei, Feng Ju, Bai Chen, Hao Guo, Dan Wang, Yaoyao Wang, Hongtao Wu

There is an increasing popularity for the continuum robot in minimally invasive surgery owing to its compliance and dexterity. However, the dexterity takes the challenges in…

Shape sensing and feedback control of the catheter robot for interventional surgery

Fei Qi, Bai Chen, Shigang She, Shuyuan Gao

This paper aims to present a shape sensing method and feedback control strategy based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor to improve the control accuracy of the robot and ensure…

Robotic constant force grinding control based on grinding model and iterative algorithm

Meng Xiao, Tie Zhang, Yanbiao Zou, Shouyan Chen

The purpose of this paper is to propose a robot constant grinding force control algorithm for the impact stage and processing stage of robotic grinding.

Remote deepwater subsea pipeline maintenance system

Yu Luo, Xiangdong Jiao, Zewei Fang, Shuxin Zhang, Xuan Wu, Dongyao Wang, Qin Chu

This paper aims to propose a diverless weld bead maintenance welding technology to prevent the leakage of subsea oil and gas pipeline and solve the key problems in the maintenance…

An optimal singularity-free motion planning method for a 6-DOF parallel manipulator

Shiqi Li, Dong Chen, Junfeng Wang

This paper aims to present a method of optimal singularity-free motion planning under multiple objectives and multiple constrains for the 6-DOF parallel manipulator, which is used…

On-line self-calibration method for unattended manipulators based on Gaussian motion model and visual system

Ruolong Qi, Yuangui Tang, Ke Zhang

For some special manipulators such as the ones work at the space station, nuclear or some other unmanned environments, the overload, collision, vibration, temperature change or…

Promoting mutual adaptation in haptic negotiation using adaptive virtual fixture

Hua Zhou, Dong Wei, Yinglong Chen, Fa Wu

To promote the intuitiveness of collaborative tasks, the negotiation ability of humans with each other has inspired a large amount of studies aimed at reproducing the capacity in…