Industrial Robot: Volume 35 Issue 3
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents - Special Issue: Mobile Robots
Guest Editors: Professor Brian Bridge
US venture capital in robotics
Joanne PranskyThis paper seeks to report on the US venture capital (VC) industry's data findings on robotics.
Tmsuk/Microsoft collaboration on robotic software
Yoshihiro KusudaThis paper aims to report the collaboration between Microsoft and Tmsuk and describe the possible impact on the development of robotics software and the robot industry for the…
Development of an omni‐directional mobile robot using traveling waves based on snail locomotion
Taro Nakamura, Kuniaki SatohThe snail moves by propagating traveling waves from tail to head. If it is possible to propagate a traveling wave in many directions, an omni‐directional mobile robot could be…
Rescue robot module with sliding membrane locomotion
Rezia Molfino, Matteo Zoppi, Luca RimassaThe purpose of this paper is to present a cost‐effective design for a new rescue robot locomotion module using the principle of a continuous sliding membrane to achieve propulsion…
Development of a climbing robot for inspection of long weld lines
Jianzhong Shang, Bryan Bridge, Tariq Sattar, Shyamal Mondal, Alina BrennerThe project Climbing Robot Cell for Fast and Flexible Manufacture of Large Scale Structures seeks to modernise and take into the future the technology of the manufacture of large…
Kinematics, sensors and control of the fully automated façade‐cleaning robot SIRIUSc for the Fraunhofer headquarters building, Munich
Norbert Elkmann, Mario Lucke, Tino Krüger, Dietmar Kunst, Thomas Stürze, Justus HortigThe purpose of this paper is to describe how the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF) has developed the automatic façade‐cleaning robot SIRIUSc for use…
CROMSCI: development of a climbing robot with negative pressure adhesion for inspections
C. Hillenbrand, D. Schmidt, K. BernsThe non‐destructive inspection of large concrete walls (e.g. dams, bridge pylons) with autonomous systems is still an unsolved problem. One of the main difficulties is to develop…
Hopping mobility concept for search and rescue robots
Steven Dubowsky, Samuel Kesner, Jean‐Sébastien Plante, Penelope BostonThis paper seeks to present recent work demonstrating the feasibility of Microbots' mobility in rough terrain. Microbots are a new search and rescue concept based on the…
Mobile robot localization in quasi‐dynamic environments
Alejandro Ramirez‐Serrano, Hubert Liu, Giovanni C. PettinaroThe purpose of this paper is to address the online localization of mobile (service) robots in real world dynamic environments. Most of the techniques developed so far have been…
The robust construction of a generalized Voronoi graph (GVG) using partial range data for guide robots
Sunghwan Ahn, Nakju Lett Doh, Wan Kyun Chung, Sang Yep NamThe purpose of this paper is to describe research to enable a robust navigation of guide robots in erratic environments with partial sensor information.
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou