Industrial Robot: Volume 51 Issue 3

The role of robots in logistics

Robert Bogue

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the growing role of robots in the logistics industry.

A robot motion skills method with explicit environmental constraints

Yonghua Huang, Tuanjie Li, Yuming Ning, Yan Zhang

This paper aims to solve the problem of the inability to apply learning methods for robot motion skills based on dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) in tasks with explicit…

SiLK-SLAM: accurate, robust and versatile visual SLAM with simple learned keypoints

Jianjun Yao, Yingzhao Li

Weak repeatability is observed in handcrafted keypoints, leading to tracking failures in visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems under challenging scenarios…

An efficient constraint method for solving planning problems under end-effector constraints

Yahao Wang, Zhen Li, Yanghong Li, Erbao Dong

In response to the challenge of reduced efficiency or failure of robot motion planning algorithms when faced with end-effector constraints, this study aims to propose a new…

Research on dual robot collaboration method based on improved double ant colony algorithm

Xiaohui Jia, Chunrui Tang, Xiangbo Zhang, Jinyue Liu

This study aims to propose an efficient dual-robot task collaboration strategy to address the issue of low work efficiency and inability to meet the production needs of a single…

Impedance control for force tracking of a dual-arm cooperative robot based on particle swarm optimization

Li Li, Tong Huang, Chujia Pan, J.F. Pan, Wenbin Su

The purpose of this paper aims to investigate the adaptive impedance control and its optimized PSO algorithm for force tracking of a dual-arm cooperative robot. Because the…

DARLOS: a lightweight dual-arm robotic live-line operation system for autonomous high-voltage distribution grid maintenance

Zhiqiang Wang

This paper aims to present a novel lightweight distribution grid operating robot system with focus on lightweight and multi-functionality, aiming for autonomous and live-line…

Design and experiment of transmission tower climbing robot inspired by inchworm

Shufeng Tang, Yongsheng Kou, Guoqing Zhao, Huijie Zhang, Hong Chang, Xuewei Zhang, Yunhe Zou

The purpose of this paper is to design a climbing robot connected by a connecting rod mechanism to achieve multi-functional tasks such as obstacles crossing and climbing of power…

A heavy-load wall-climbing robot for bridge concrete structures inspection

Guizhi Lyu, Peng Wang, Guohong Li, Feng Lu, Shenglong Dai

The purpose of this paper is to present a wall-climbing robot platform for heavy-load with negative pressure adsorption, which could be equipped with a six-degree of freedom (DOF…

Narrow gap welding seam deflection correction study based on passive vision

Wang Zhang, Lizhe Fan, Yanbin Guo, Weihua Liu, Chao Ding

The purpose of this study is to establish a method for accurately extracting torch and seam features. This will improve the quality of narrow gap welding. An adaptive deflection…

Development of a novel nonrigid support friction stir welding repair robot for aluminum alloy train

Taotao Jin, Xiuhui Cui, Chuanyue Qi, Xinyu Yang

This paper aims to develop a specific type of mobile nonrigid support friction stir welding (FSW) robot, which can adapt to aluminum alloy trucks for rapid online repair.

Joint torque prediction of industrial robots based on PSO-LSTM deep learning

Wei Xiao, Zhongtao Fu, Shixian Wang, Xubing Chen

Because of the key role of joint torque in industrial robots (IRs) motion performance control and energy consumption calculation and efficiency optimization, the purpose of this…

Online path planning of pork cutting robot using 3D laser point cloud

Yi Liu, Rui Ning, Mingxin Du, Shuanghe Yu, Yan Yan

The purpose of this paper is to propose an new online path planning method for porcine belly cutting. With the proliferation in demand for the automatic systems of pork…

Autonomous path planning and stabilizing force interaction control for robotic massage in unknown environment

Xiaoqing Zhang, Genliang Xiong, Peng Yin, Yanfeng Gao, Yan Feng

To ensure the motion attitude and stable contact force of massage robot working on unknown human tissue environment, this study aims to propose a robotic system for autonomous…