Industrial Robot: Volume 38 Issue 6
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
Robots for monitoring the environment
Robert BogueThis paper aims to provide a review of the role of robots for monitoring the environment.
Mobile hospital robots cure numerous logistic needs
Richard BlossThe purpose of this paper is to show how mobile robots are addressing a variety of hospital logistic needs.
Robots at FOOMA Japan: a food machinery and technology exhibition
Yoshihiro KusudaThe purpose of this paper is to review new robots and applications in the food‐related industry through the exhibits at the Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition, Japan.
Low‐cost and automated calibration method for joint offset of industrial robot using single‐point constraint
Yong Liu, Ning XiThe industrial robot has high repeatability but low accuracy. With the industrial robot being widely used in complicated tasks, e.g. arc welding, offline programming and surgery…
Expert system to interpret hand tremor and provide joystick position signals for powered wheelchairs with ultrasonic sensor systems
David Sanders, Ian Stott, Jasper Graham‐Jones, Alexander Gegov, Giles TewkesburyThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how to make powered‐wheelchair driving easier using simple expert systems to interpret joystick and ultrasonic sensor data. The expert…
Prototypes selection by multi‐objective optimal design: application to a reconfigurable robot in sandy terrain
He Xu, Zhenyu Zhang, Khalil Alipour, Kai Xue, X.Z. GaoWheel‐terrain interaction has hardly been taken into consideration in the process of conventional mobile robot design, but its importance has been reflected increasingly towards…
Modeling and analysis of robotic wheel loading process in trim‐and‐final assembly
Heping Chen, Jianjun Wang, Biao Zhang, Thomas FuhlbriggeMoving production lines are widely used in many manufacturing factories, such as automotive and general industries. However, industrial robots are hardly used to perform any tasks…
Robotic manufacturing by shaped metal deposition: state of the art
Gustavo Escobar‐Palafox, Rosemary Gault, Keith RidgwayThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of shaped metal deposition (SMD). SMD is an additive manufacturing process which uses a robotic cell to create fully dense…
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou