Industrial Robot: Volume 50 Issue 4

Beyond imaging: drones for physical applications

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to illustrate the growing role of drones in applications involving physical tasks.

A global, continuous calibration curvature strategy for bending sensors of soft fingers

Ling-Jie Gai, Xiaofeng Zong, Jie Huang

The aim of the paper is to propose a global, automated and continuous curvature calibration strategy for bending sensors, which is used for the angle feedback control of soft…

Design and implementation of an augmented reality mobile application for navigating ATM counters (AR-ATM)

Preetha K.G., Subin K. Antony, Remesh Babu K.R., Saritha S., Sangeetha U.

This paper aims to bring in augmented reality (AR) into navigation systems to rectify the issues mentioned. This paper proposes an AR enhanced navigation system for location…

The implementation and performance evaluation for a smart robot with edge computing algorithms

Joy Iong-Zong Chen, Ping-Feng Huang, Chung Sheng Pi

Apart from, the smart edge computing (EC) robot (SECR) provides the tools to manage Internet of things (IoT) services in the edge landscape by means of real-world test-bed…

A novel soft gripper with enhanced gripping adaptability based on spring-reinforced soft pneumatic actuators

Peilin Cheng, Yuze Ye, Bo Yan, Yebo Lu, Chuanyu Wu

Soft grippers have safer and more adaptable human–machine and environment–machine interactions than rigid grippers. However, most soft grippers with single gripping postures have…

Identification of particular hydrodynamic parameters for a modular type 4 DOF underwater vehicle by means of CFD method

Serhat Yilmaz, Gülten Altıokka Yılmaz

The development of robust control algorithms for the position, velocity and trajectory control of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) depends on the accuracy of their mathematical…

A systematic automated grasping approach for automatic manipulation of fabric with soft robot grippers

Yuqi Liu, Junqiang Su, Xinyu Li, Guoqing Jin

The garment industry will be one of the major beneficiaries of advances in smart manufacturing, as it is highly labor-intensive and heavily depends on labor force. Manipulating…

Reconfigurable wheel-crawler-integrated walking mechanism design and kinetic analysis

Pengfei Zhou, Shufeng Tang, Yubin Liu, Jie Zhao, Zaiyong Sun

This study aims to the complex and unpredictable terrain environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau scientific research station, such as cement road, wetland, gravel desert…

Design and experimental research of the hybrid-driven soft robot

Ke Zhang, Hongtao Wei, Yongqi Bi

The purpose of this paper is to design a soft robot for performing detection, by using a hybrid drive to reach the target point faster and enable the robot to perform the…

Multi-pyramid-based hierarchical template matching for 6D pose estimation in industrial grasping task

Ziqi Chai, Chao Liu, Zhenhua Xiong

Template matching is one of the most suitable choices for full six degrees of freedom pose estimation in many practical industrial applications. However, the increasing number of…

A balanced walking-clamp mechanism for inspection robot of transmission line

Caixia Chao, Xin Mei, Yongle Wei, Lijin Fang

This paper aims to design a walking-clamp mechanism for the inspection robot of transmission line. The focus for this design is on climbing ability and obstacle-crossing ability…

Error identification and compensation of 1T2R parallel power head based on trajectory optimization and principal component analysis

Yanbing Ni, Yizhang Cui, Shilei Jia, Chenghao Lu, Wenliang Lu

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method for selecting the position and attitude trajectory of error measurement to improve the kinematic calibration efficiency of a one…

Enhance pick-and-place performance using multimodal interaction in operation environment

Xinwei Guo, Yang Chen

Currently, the vision and depth information obtained from the eye-to-hand RGB-D camera can apply to the reconstruction of the three-dimensional (3D) environment for a robotic…

Fuzzy active disturbance rejection control method for an omnidirectional mobile robot with MY3 wheel

Changlong Ye, Jingru Shao, Yong Liu, Suyang Yu

Omnidirectional mobile robots with a special type of wheel structure can realize flexible motion with all three degrees of freedom in a plane. But the driving method brings large…