Industrial Robot: Volume 30 Issue 5
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
Laser cutting gains closed‐loop control
Anna KochanEureka project E! 1784 Eurolaser Publics is creating a fully automated solution for the 2D and 3D laser cutting of metals up to 20 mm thick. The European consortium made up of…
Vision guidance system facilitates high‐speed inter‐row weeding
Christine ConnollyThis article describes the image processing and tracking algorithms used in a mechanical hoe that accurately weeds between parallel rows of crops under variable outdoor…
Biomimetic robotics heralds new era in dairy farming
Andrew Peacock, Robert BoyceDescribes an automated robotic milking system that allows self‐milking by cows. Benefits include increased yield, improved cow welfare and reduced labour. Describes elephant‐trunk…
“Super mechano systems” – a report on the IEE Tustin/UKACC annual lecture given by Professor Katsuhisha Furuta
Rob BuckinghamSummarises the content of the IEE Tustin lecture presented by Professor Katsuhisha Furuta of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The work discussed is part of the $10 million super…
A remotely controlled robot operates construction machines
Yoshihiro KusudaA Tokyo‐based construction company, Fujita Corporation, has developed the unmanned “Tele‐Earthwork System”. It features a remotely controlled robot which manipulates conventional…
Automation and innovative process technology moulds Birkby's future
Brian RooksA profile of Birkby's Plastics, a UK‐based leading European plastic moulding company that has successfully completed a management buy‐out. Birkby's supplies to the major…
Human‐robot collaboration for improved target recognition of agricultural robots
Avital Bechar, Yael EdanAutomatic target recognition in agricultural harvesting robots is characterized by low detection rates and high false alarm rates due to the unstructured nature of both the…
Design and validation of a universal 6D seam tracking system in robotic welding based on laser scanning
Mikael Fridenfalk, Gunnar BolmsjöThis paper presents the design and validation of a universal 6D seam tracking system that reduces the need of accurate robot trajectory programming and geometrical databases in…
A dexterous robotic gripper for autonomous grasping
L. Biagiotti, C. Melchiorri, G. VassuraIn advanced robotics applications in unstructured environments (e.g. those foreseen in space) some degree of dexterity and autonomy is necessary in order to safely and…
A void shape detecting sensor for pipeline inspection
Zhelong Wang, Ernest AppletonThis paper presents the concept and design of a strain gauge sensor, which is a part of a pipe crawling robot and can be used for the purpose of detecting the shape of a collapsed…
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou