Industrial Robot: Volume 44 Issue 2

Domestic robots: Has their time finally come?

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of commercially available domestic robots and recent product developments and consider whether a significant boost in the robot population is…

The Pransky interview: Mitchell Weiss, CTO, Seegrid Corporation

Joanne Pransky

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

Robot programming by demonstration using teleoperation through imitation

Abhishek Jha, Shital S. Chiddarwar

This paper aims to present a new learning from demonstration-based trajectory planner that generalizes and extracts relevant features of the desired motion for an industrial robot.

A novel data glove using inertial and magnetic sensors for motion capture and robotic arm-hand teleoperation

Bin Fang, Fuchun Sun, Huaping Liu, Di Guo

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel data glove which can capture the motion of the arm and hand by inertial and magnetic sensors. The proposed data glove is used to…

Tele-operated propeller-type climbing robot for inspection of petrochemical vessels

Mohamed Gouda Alkalla, Mohamed A. Fanni, Abdelfatah M. Mohamed, Shuji Hashimoto

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new propeller-type climbing robot called EJBot for climbing various types of structures that include significant obstacles, besides…

Seamless autonomous navigation based on the motion constraint of the mobile robot

Weina Chen, Qinghua Zeng, Jianye Liu, Huizhe Wang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a seamless autonomous navigation method based on the motion constraint of the mobile robot, which is able to meet the practical need of…

Benchmarking motion planning algorithms for bin-picking applications

Thomas Fridolin Iversen, Lars-Peter Ellekilde

For robot motion planning there exists a large number of different algorithms, each appropriate for a certain domain, and the right choice of planner depends on the specific use…

Which impedance strategy is the most effective for cooperative object manipulation?

Payam Zarafshan, Reza Larimi, S. Ali A. Moosavian, Bruno Siciliano

The purpose of this paper is to present a comparison study of cooperative object manipulation control algorithms. To this end, a full comprehensive survey of the existing control…

Adaptive neural network visual servoing of dual-arm robot for cyclic motion

Jiadi Qu, Fuhai Zhang, Yili Fu, Guozhi Li, Shuxiang Guo

The purpose of this paper is to develop a vision-based dual-arm cyclic motion method, focusing on solving the problems of an uncertain grasp position of the object and the…

Design of an electromagnetic prismatic joint with variable stiffness

Yong Zhao, Jue Yu, Hao Wang, Genliang Chen, Xinmin Lai

This paper aims to propose an electromagnetic prismatic joint with variable stiffness. The joint can absorb the sudden shocks and improve the natural dynamics of robotics. The…

Kinematic calibration of a 3-DOF parallel tool head

Yuzhe Liu, Jun Wu, Liping Wang, Jinsong Wang, Dong Wang, Guang Yu

The purpose of this study is to develop a modified parameter identification method and a novel measurement method to calibrate a 3 degrees-of-freedom (3-DOF) parallel tool head…

Application of bio-inspired control of AmphiHex-I in detection of Oncomelania hupensis, the amphibious snail intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum

Youcheng Zhou, Bin Zhong, Tao Fang, Jiming Liu, Xiaonong Zhou, Shiwu Zhang

This paper aims to construct a central pattern generator (CPG) network that comprises coupled nonlinear oscillators to implement diversified locomotion gaits of robot AmphiHex-I…