Industrial Robot: Volume 43 Issue 4

The Pransky interview: Dr William “Red” Whittaker, Robotics Pioneer, Professor, Entrepreneur

Joanne Pransky

The following paper details a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky, Associate Editor of Industrial Robot Journal, to impart the combined technological, business and…

The role of robots in the battlefields of the future

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide an overview of robots presently in use by the military and an insight into some that are under development.

Mobile robot vision system using continuous laser scanning for industrial application

Lars Lindner, Oleg Sergiyenko, Julio C. Rodríguez-Quiñonez, Moises Rivas-Lopez, Daniel Hernandez-Balbuena, Wendy Flores-Fuentes, Fabian Natanael Murrieta-Rico, Vera Tyrsa

The purpose of this paper is the presentation and research of a novel robot vision system, which uses laser dynamic triangulation, to determine three-dimensional (3D) coordinates…

Path planning towards non-compulsory multiple targets using TWIN-RRT*

Nino Pereira, A.Fernando Ribeiro, Gil Lopes, Jorge Lino

The purpose of this paper is to characterise the TWIN-RRT* algorithm which solves a motion planning problem in which an agent has multiple possible targets where none of them is…

Designing robot behavior in human robot interaction based on emotion expression

Yuan Wei, Jing Zhao

This paper aims to deal with the problem of designing robot behaviors (mainly to robotic arms) to express emotions. The authors study the effects of robot behaviors from our…

Haptic industrial robot control with variable time delayed bilateral teleoperation

Servet Soyguder, Tayfun Abut

This study attempts to control the movement of industrial robots with virtual and real-time variable time delay. The improved variable wave method was used for analyzing position…

A coiling robot for elevator compensation chain

Xianchuan Shi, Liang Gao, Lei Qian, Mingya Cheng, Kyle Jiang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a coiling robot in the production of coated elevator compensation chains to replace the manual coiling operations and improve the quality…

Experimental comparison of drag-wiper and roller-wiper glass-cleaning robots

Qiang Zhou, Xin Li

Glass-cleaning robots were developed to perform the difficult, time-consuming and dangerous job of cleaning windows that had traditionally been done by humans. The wiping…

Towards robotic post-trimming of salmon fillets

Eirin Bar, John Reidar Mathiassen, Aleksander Eilertsen, Terje Mugaas, Ekrem Misimi, Ådne Solhaug Linnerud, Cecilie Salomonsen, Harry Westavik

Practically all salmon fillets produced in Norway are trimmed clean of unwanted fat, bone remnants and other defects according to customer requirements. In today’s modern…

Development of climbing robot for steel bridge inspection

Rui Wang, Youhei Kawamura

The purpose of this paper is to present a design of climbing robot with magnetic wheels which can move on the surface of steel bridge. The locomotion concept is based on adapted…