Industrial Robot: Volume 41 Issue 2

The Pransky interview: Dr Mark W. Tilden, Robotics Physicist

Joanne Pransky

The following article is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business, and personal…

The role of artificial intelligence in robotics

Robert Bogue

– This paper aims to provide an insight into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in robotics.

Adaptive arm motion generation of humanoid robot operating in dynamic environments

Zulkifli Mohamed, Mitsuki Kitani, Genci Capi

– The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of the robot arm motion generated by neural controllers in simulated and real robot experiments.

An automatic switching approach of robotic components for improving robot localization reliability in complicated environment

Wenshan Wang, Qixin Cao, Xiaoxiao Zhu, Masaru Adachi

Robot localization technology has been widely studied for decades and a lot of remarkable approaches have been developed. However, in practice, this technology has hardly been…

Transformation design of a miniature throw-able robot

Rong Liu, Yuan Qu

– This paper aims to present a transformation mechanism designed for a miniature throw-able robot, including the mechanical model, related analysis and experiments.

A calibration method of kinematic parameters for serial industrial robots

Wei Wang, Gang Wang, Chao Yun

Calibrating kinematic parameters is one of the efficient ways to improve the robot's positioning accuracy. A method based on the product-of-exponential (POE) formula to calibrate…

A novel design of inspection robot for high-voltage power lines

A. Mostashfi, A. Fakhari, Mohammad Ali Badri

In this article, a detailed design of a novel power line inspection robot is studied. This robot can be used to move on ground wires for special purposes such as inspection and…

Automated de-stacking using compact and low-cost robotized system

Yufeng Qu, Guanghua Zong

This paper aims to introduce a compact and low-cost robotized system and corresponding processing method for automatically identifying and de-stacking circulation boxes under…

Analysis of the human arm gesture for optimizing cutting process in ham deboning with a redundant robotic cell

Kévin Subrin, Laurent Sabourin, Franck Stephan, Grigoré Gogu, Matthieu Alric, Youcef Mezouar

The mechanization of the meat cutting companies has become essential due to the lack of skilled workers and to working conditions. This paper deals with the analysis of human…

Robust-PCA-based hierarchical plane extraction for application to geometric 3D indoor mapping

Suyong Yeon, ChangHyun Jun, Hyunga Choi, Jaehyeon Kang, Youngmok Yun, Nakju Lett Doh

– The authors aim to propose a novel plane extraction algorithm for geometric 3D indoor mapping with range scan data.

Underwater localization and mapping: observability analysis and experimental results

Mohammadreza Bayat, A. Pedro Aguiar

The authors aim to investigate the observability properties of the process of simultaneous localization and mapping of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a challenging and…

Tracking performance improvements of an electrohydraulic Gough-Stewart platform using a fuzzy incremental controller

Guojun Liu, Zhiyong Qu, Xiaochu Liu, Junwei Han

Sinusoidal signals are often used as the inputs of the six degree of freedom (DOF) motion simulator platforms. The purpose of this paper is to propose a fuzzy incremental…

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