Industrial Robot: Volume 44 Issue 3

Europe leads the way in assistive robots for the elderly

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of European research projects and product developments involving robots that can assist the ageing population.

The Pransky interview: Dr Cory Kidd, Founder and CEO at Catalia Health

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…

Synthesis and experiment of a lower limb exoskeleton rehabilitation robot

Jian Li, Diansheng Chen, Chunjing Tao, Hui Li

Many studies have shown that rehabilitation robots are crucial for lower limb dysfunction, but application of many robotics have yet to be seen to actual use in China. This study…

Output feedback assistive control of single-DOF SEA powered exoskeletons

Iman Kardan, Alireza Akbarzadeh

This paper aims to overcome some of the practical difficulties in assistive control of exoskeletons by developing a new assistive algorithm, called output feedback assistive…

Design of a novel robotic system for minimally invasive surgery

Yue Ai, Bo Pan, Yili Fu, Shuguo Wang

Robot-assisted system for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has been attracting more and more attentions. Compared with a traditional MIS, the robot-assisted system for MIS is able…

Real-time control of bilateral teleoperation system with adaptive computed torque method

Tayfun Abut, Servet Soyguder

This paper aims to use the adaptive computed torque control (ACTC) method to eliminate the kinematic and dynamic uncertainties of master and slave robots and for the control of…

Soft landing control strategy for biped robot

Hongbo Zhu, Minzhou Luo, Jianghai Zhao, Tao Li

The purpose of this paper was to present a soft landing control strategy for a biped robot to avoid and absorb the impulsive reaction forces (which weakens walking stability…

Singularity avoidance of 6R decoupled manipulator using improved Gaussian distribution damped reciprocal algorithm

Hong-Xin Cui, Ke Feng, Huan-Liang Li, Jin-Hua Han

To improve the trajectory tracking accuracy of 6R decoupled manipulator in singularity region, this paper aims to propose a singularity avoidance algorithm named “singularity…

Development and implementation of a robotic inspection system for power substations

Haojie Zhang, Bo Su, Hong Meng

With the dramatically increasing number of substations, robots are expected to inspect equipment in the power industry. However, a traditional robotic system cannot work stably…

A four-point measurement model for evaluating the pose of industrial robot and its influence factor analysis

Chuangui Yang, Junwen Wang, Liang Mi, Xingbao Liu, Yangqiu Xia, Yilei Li, Shaoxing Ma, Qiang Teng

This paper aims to propose a four-point measurement model for directly measuring the pose (i.e. position and orientation) of industrial robot and reducing its calculating error…

Robotic autonomous behavior selection using episodic memory and attention system

Dong Liu, Ming Cong, Yu Du, Qiang Zou, Yingxue Cui

This paper aims to focus on the autonomous behavior selection issue of robotics from the perspective of episodic memory in cognitive neuroscience with biology-inspired attention…

Rapid satellite capture by a space robot based on delay compensation

Zhenyu Li, Bin Wang, Haitao Yang, Hong Liu

Rapid satellite capture by a free-floating space robot is a challenge problem because of no-fixed base and time-delay issues. This paper aims to present a modified target…

SLEGS robot: development and design of a novel flexible and self-reconfigurable robot leg

Servet Soyguder, Walter Boles

This paper aims to explain the design of a novel leg mechanism for SLEGS robot. SLEGS means both “S”-shaped for the legged robot and “O”-shaped for the wheeled robot. It is a…