Industrial Robot: Volume 39 Issue 3

Unmanned vehicle show makes a capital appearance

The purpose of this paper is to review the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Conference and Show held in Washington DC, with emphasis on unmanned…

Robots at the International Robot Exhibition 2011 in Tokyo

The purpose of this paper is to review the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) in Tokyo, Japan 2011, with emphasis on the new trend of the Japanese robot industry.

Compact climbing robot rolling on flexible magnetic rollers, for generator inspection with the rotor still installed

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and prototype implementation of a compact climbing robot with magnetic adhesion, which is only 8 mm high and allows for moving…

Laser scan matching for self‐localization of a walking robot in man‐made environments

The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel application of the well‐established 2D laser scan‐matching technique for self‐localization of a walking robot. The techniques…

Intelligent systems for industrial robotics: application in logistic field

Different machines are already present in the human environment, easing human beings' daily life. In the future, this tendency will be accentuated by integration of numerous…

Neural networks‐based adaptive robust control of crawler‐type mobile manipulators using sliding mode approach

The purpose of this paper is to present the radial basis function (RBF) networks‐based adaptive robust control for an omni‐directional wheeled mobile manipulator in the presence…

An autonomous restaurant service robot with high positioning accuracy

Recently, service robots have been widely used in various fields. The purpose of this paper is to design a restaurant service robot which could be applicable to provide basic…

Obstacle‐responsive navigation scheme of a wheeled mobile robot based on look‐ahead control

The purpose of this paper is to design a mobile robot controller which is able to pursue a given goal with obstacle‐avoiding capability in which the two tasks, i.e. aiming at the…

High‐level robot programming based on CAD: dealing with unpredictable environments

The purpose of this paper is to present a CAD‐based human‐robot interface that allows non‐expert users to teach a robot in a manner similar to that used by human beings to teach…

Direct kinematic analysis of a heavy‐payload forging manipulator in the grasping stage

The purpose of this paper is to present the direct kinematic analysis of a heavy‐payload forging manipulator. In the grasping stage, the manipulator is equivalent to a 3‐DOF…

Robot ethics

All-electric robot moulder cell takes safe integration to a leaner level

Robot searches for survivors in mine disasters

Patent abstracts

RoboBusiness Leadership Summit 2011

Diary

Surviving in the real world

iRobot Ava – an app ready mobile robot

College team develops an autonomous robotic snow plow

Robots go to prison – as guards

Principles of GNSS, Inertial, and Multi-sensor Integrated Navigation Systems

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