Industrial Robot: Volume 27 Issue 3
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
A day in the life of Isaac
Joe EngelbergerDemonstrates that present technologies are sufficient to produce a household robot for the elderly or disabled, that is able to undertake a wide range of domestic chores and…
The BarrettHand grasper – programmably flexible part handling and assembly
William TownsendThis paper details the design and operation of the BarrettHand BH8‐250, an intelligent, highly flexible eight‐axis gripper that reconfigures itself in real time to conform…
Precise piezoelectric prehension
Gareth MonkmanPiezoelectric actuators are well established for use in expensive optical equipment. Within the last decade, relatively inexpensive piezoelectric actuators have become established…
“Soft” grasping using a dextrous hand
D.G. Caldwell, N. TsagarakisManipulators in one form or another have been in existence for many hundreds of years with the design usually motivated by the task to be undertaken. Most often in robots this has…
Tool changer integration utilising fieldbus
Richard Piggin, Ken YoungFieldbus has been used to control self drill drive screw (SDDS), spot clinching and self pierce riveting tools mounted to a single robot with a tool changer. This has reduced…
Application of suspension mechanisms for low powered robot tasks
Mohammad Jashim Uddin, Yasuo Nasu, Kazuhisa Mitobe, Kou YamadaPresents the manipulation methods of a low powered direct‐drive robot‐arm for heavy object manipulation using a suspension device. Considers manipulation of a suspended tool in…
A mobile robot for pressurizer inspection
Rong‐Lei Sun, Xing‐Jiang Wan, Heng‐Yi ChangThe pressurizer is one of the critical components in a nuclear reactor, whose main function is to maintain the primary system pressure within specific boundaries. The pressurizer…
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou