Industrial Robot: Volume 50 Issue 1

The first half century of industrial robot: 50 years of robotic developments

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to trace the technological and commercial developments in robotics over the last 50 years, from 1973, the year in which this journal was founded, to the present…

External force estimation for robot manipulator based on a LuGre-linear-hybrid friction model and an improved square root cubature Kalman filter

Jiacai Wang, Jiaoliao Chen, Libin Zhang, Fang Xu, Lewei Zhi

The sensorless external force estimation of robot manipulator can be helpful for reducing the cost and complexity of the robot system. However, the complex friction phenomenon of…

A novel start-up method of sensorless passive lead-through programming for industrial robots

Yuliang Guo, Jianwei Niu, Renluan Hou, Tao Ren, Bing Han, Xiaolong Yu, Qun Ma

Sensorless passive lead-through programming (LTP) is a promising physical human-robot interaction technology that enables manual trajectory demonstrations based on gravity and…

FESM-based approach for stiffness modeling, identification and updating of collaborative robots

Mingwei Hu, Hongwei Sun, Liangchuang Liao, Jiajian He

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a method for stiffness modeling, identification and updating of collaborative robots (cobots). This method operates in real-time and with…

Vibration suppression of collaborative robot based on modified trajectory planning

Yong Tian, Xiang Yue, Lin Wang, Yan Feng

The paper aims to reduce the low-frequency resonance and residual vibration of the robot during the operation, improve the working accuracy and efficiency. A reduced weight and…

Hybridized neural network inspired behavioural modelling of pneumatic artificial muscles for assistive robotic applications

Aman Arora, Debadrata Sarkar, Arunabha Majumder, Soumen Sen, Shibendu Shekhar Roy

This paper aims to devise a first-of-its-kind methodology to determine the design, operating conditions and actuation strategy of pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) for assistive…

Spatial positioning robotic system for autonomous inspection of LPG tanks

Jie Li, Jiyuan Wu, Chunlei Tu, Xingsong Wang

Automatic robots can improve the efficiency of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank inspection and maintenance, but it is difficult to achieve high-precision spatial positioning and…

An efficient approach for the elevator button manipulation using the visual-based self-driving mobile manipulator

Toan Van Nguyen, Jin-Hyeon Jeong, Jaewon Jo

Because mobile manipulators are unable to climb stairs, the elevator operation is a crucial capacity to help those kinds of robot systems work in modern multifloor buildings…

A hybrid obstacle avoidance method for mobile robot navigation in unstructured environment

Huaidong Zhou, Pengbo Feng, Wusheng Chou

Wheeled mobile robots (WMR) are the most widely used robots. Avoiding obstacles in unstructured environments, especially dynamic obstacles such as pedestrians, is a serious…

An intelligent fast controller for autonomous wheeled robot path navigation in challenging environments

Subhradip Mukherjee, R. Kumar, Siddhanta Borah

This paper aims to incorporate one intelligent particle swarm optimization (IPSO) controller to realize an optimum path in unknown environments. In this paper, the fitness…

Design and locomotion analysis of a close-chain leg-wheel mobile platform

Xiang-Ming Fan, Qiang Ruan

To take the advantages of terrain-adaptive capability of legged platform and fast-moving ability of wheeled platform, this paper aims to design a leg-wheel mobile platform for…

Improved A* algorithm and model predictive control- based path planning and tracking framework for hexapod robots

Zelin Wang, Feng Gao, Yue Zhao, Yunpeng Yin, Liangyu Wang

Path planning is a fundamental and significant issue in robotics research, especially for the legged robots, since it is the core technology for robots to complete complex tasks…

Design of wireless in-pipe inspection robot for image acquisition

Kunlun Wu, Haifeng Sang, Yanhao Xing, Yao Lu

Pipeline robots are often used in pipeline non-destructive testing. Given the need for long-range in-pipe inspections, this study aims to develop a wireless in-pipe inspection…

Adaptive sliding mode control for tunnel boring machine cutterhead telescopic system with uncertainties

Hangjun Zhang, Jinhui Fang, Jianhua Wei, Huan Yu, Qiang Zhang

This paper aims to present an adaptive sliding mode control (ASMC) for tunnel boring machine cutterhead telescopic system with uncertainties to achieve a high-precision trajectory…

3D SLAM based on NDT matching and ground constraints for ground robots in complex environments

Yi Jiang, Ting Wang, Shiliang Shao, Lebing Wang

In large-scale environments and unstructured scenarios, the accuracy and robustness of traditional light detection and ranging (LiDAR) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM…

Enhanced DWA algorithm for local path planning of mobile robot

Xin Lai, Dan Wu, Di Wu, Jia He Li, Hang Yu

The purpose of this study is to solve the problems of poor stability and high energy consumption of the dynamic window algorithm (DWA) for the mobile robots, a novel enhanced…