Industrial Robot: Volume 45 Issue 3

Rehabilitation robots

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide an insight into the emerging use of robots in the rehabilitation of sufferers from strokes and other neurological impediments.

The Pransky interview – Martin Haegele, Head of Department Robotics and Assistive Systems, Fraunhofer IPA

Joanne Pransky

The following 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 experience…

Advances in robotics for additive/hybrid manufacturing: robot control, speech interface and path planning

J. Norberto Pires, Amin S. Azar

This paper aims to introduce the ideas of practical implications of using industrial robots to implement additive/hybrid manufacturing. The process is discussed and briefly…

A robotic boring system for intersection holes in aircraft assembly

Yingjie Guo, HuiYue Dong, Guifeng Wang, Yinglin Ke

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a robotic boring system for intersection holes in aircraft assembly. The system is designed to improve the boring quality and position…

Design and qualification tests of a robotic joint module for tokamak in-vessel manipulator use

Liang Du, Jia-Bo Feng, Hua Wang, Wei-jun Zhang

This paper aims to present the design and a prototype experiment of a robotic joint module for tokamak in-vessel manipulator-related research; the results will promote the…

Energy-optimal motion planning of a biped pole-climbing robot with kinodynamic constraints

Xuefeng Zhou, Li Jiang, Yisheng Guan, Haifei Zhu, Dan Huang, Taobo Cheng, Hong Zhang

Applications of robotic systems in agriculture, forestry and high-altitude work will enter a new and huge stage in the near future. For these application fields, climbing robots…

Manipulator residual estimation and its application in collision detection

Mingming Guo, Hua Zhang, Chuncheng Feng, Manlu Liu, Jianwen Huo

This paper aims to present a method to improve the sensitive and low probabilities of false alarm of a manipulator in a human–robot interaction environment, which can improve the…

Task constrained motion planning for 7-degree of freedom manipulators with parameterized submanifolds

Qiang Qiu, Qixin Cao

This paper aims to use the redundancy of a 7-DOF (degree of freedom) serial manipulator to solve motion planning problems along a given 6D Cartesian tool path, in the presence of…

Introducing data analytics to the robotic drilling process

Toufik Al Khawli, Hamza Bendemra, Muddasar Anwar, Dewald Swart, Jorge Dias

This paper presents a method for extracting the geometric primitives of a circle in a three-dimensional space from a discrete point cloud data set obtained by a laser stripe…

Robust adaptive sliding mode control for a human-driven knee joint orthosis

Rihab Bkekri, Anouar Benamor, Mohamed Amine Alouane, Georges Fried, Hassani Messaoud

Assistive technology products are designed to provide additional accessibility to individuals who have physical or cognitive difficulties, impairments and disabilities. The…

Motion and path planning of a novel multi-mode mobile parallel robot based on chessboard-shaped grid division

Zhaotian Wang, Yezhuo Li, Yan-An Yao

The purpose of this paper is to put forward a rolling assistant robot with two rolling modes, and the multi-mode rolling motion strategy with path planning algorithm, which is…

Visual-inertial SLAM method based on optical flow in a GPS-denied environment

Chang Chen, Hua Zhu

This study aims to present a visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method for accurate positioning and navigation of mobile robots in the event of global…

A flexible calibration method connecting the joint space and the working space of industrial robots

Ying Cai, Peijiang Yuan, Dongdong Chen

To improve the accuracy of the industrial robots’ absolute positioning, a Kriging calibration is proposed.

An optimized artificial neural network for human-force estimation: consequences for rehabilitation robotics

Vahab Khoshdel, Alireza Akbarzadeh

This paper aims to present an application of design of experiments techniques to determine the optimized parameters of artificial neural networks (ANNs), which are used to…