Industrial Robot: Volume 28 Issue 4
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
The European Framework Programme – past, present and future
Monica SchofieldSince 1984 the European Commission has funded research and technology development under a series of Framework Programmes which cover a four‐ to five‐year period and provide…
Automatic wing box assembly developments
Brian RooksA demonstrator cell has been developed at Airbus UK for building large aircraft wing box assemblies by a partnership of six companies partly funded under the UK government’s civil…
Robotics for de‐heading fish – a case study
Rob Buckingham, Andrew Graham, Hordur Arnarson, Petur Snaeland, Peter DaveyRobotic solutions for the handling of food products have been notably absent from suppliers’ catalogues and indeed from research laboratories. This is primarily due to the…
Closed‐loop, vision‐based control facilitates the fitting of sunroofs by robot
Anna KochanDescribes a European project to develop vision‐based, closed‐loop robot control technology to facilitate assembly tasks in the automotive industry. Looks particularly at the…
Eureka facilitates collaborative R&D in Europe
Anna KochanDescribes the Eureka program that promotes multinational industrial R&D in Europe, and provides examples of recent Eureka projects in the area of robotics and automation.
Robot spraying of helicopter rotor blade ice protection system
Brian RooksDescribes an installation at Aerospace Composite Technologies in Luton to apply ice protection heating elements to the leading edge portion of the main rotor blade fitted to the…
Tele‐operated maintenance of live power lines
Anna KochanReports on a European project to develop a robotic system for maintaining live power lines, outlines the stereoscopic vision and voice control systems that enable a robot to…
Spreadbands drive parallel robots
Hans Armin SchmidDescribes the design principles of spreadband devices, made up of tapes such as are commonly employed in tape measures; and shows how they can be controlled and applied to…
Robot control system for grinding of large hydro power turbines
Trygve Thomessen, Terje K. Lien, Per K. SannæsPresents a robot control system dedicated to grinding large Francis turbines. The control system is based on an active force feedback system using a three‐axes force sensor…
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou