Industrial Robot: Volume 40 Issue 5

Robotic vision boosts automotive industry quality and productivity

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide a background to the use of robots by the automotive industry and describe a number of applications which illustrate the capabilities and importance of…

Ease of programming and sophisticated sensors see robots advancing in transport logistics, palletizing, order picking and assembly

Richard Bloss

This paper aims to provide a review of the many recent innovations such as 3D vision, hydrogen power and autonomous mobility in robot technology such as logistics, order filling…

Improving wafer handling performance in semiconductor manufacturing

Heping Chen, Hongtai Cheng, Ben Mooring

The electronics industries are relying increasingly on robotics for their production. Wafer handling robots are used to transfer wafers between wafer processing stations. A…

A method for integrating ethics into the design of robots

Aimee van Wynsberghe

With the rapid and pervasive introduction of robots into human environments, ethics scholars along with roboticists are asking how ethics can be applied to the discipline of…

Characterization and experimental evaluation of gear transmission errors in an industrial robot

Mohamed Slamani, Ilian A. Bonev

This paper proposes a simple technique for assessing the effect of gear transmission errors in a six‐axis industrial serial robot, as these errors can vitally affect the…

Fuzzy neural control for unmanned robot applied to automotive test

Gang Chen, Wei‐gong Zhang, Xiao‐na Zhang

The paper aims to overcome the shortcomings that proportional‐integral‐derivative (PID) control for unmanned robot applied to automotive test (URAT) needs a priori manual…

Calibrating distance mapping of non‐SVP catadioptric camera of the soccer robot

Xiaoxiao Zhu, Qixin Cao

The purpose of the present paper is to propose a full model‐based method for distance‐mapping calibration for the non‐SVP (non‐single viewpoint) catadioptric camera of the soccer…

Research on detection of welding penetration state during robotic GTAW process based on audible arc sound

Na Lv, Yanling Xu, Jiyong Zhong, Huabin Chen, Jifeng Wang, Shanben Chen

Penetration state is one of the most important factors for judging the quality of a gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) joint. The purpose of this paper is to identify and classify…

Online measurement based tool path generation toward integrated robotic laser cladding

Jie Liu

Refurbishing may be the most practical approach under the low volume production. This effort aims to achieve robotic laser cladding with the main purpose of achieving maximum…

Optimal trajectory planning for industrial robots using harmony search algorithm

Youdong Chen, Liang Yan, Hongxing Wei, Tianmiao Wang

This paper aims to present a technique for optimal trajectory planning of industrial robots that applies a new harmony search (HS) algorithm.