Industrial Robot: Volume 46 Issue 5

Bioinspired designs impart robots with unique capabilities

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide an insight into robot developments that use bioinspired design concepts.

The Pransky interview: Dr Hod Lipson, Professor at Columbia University; Robotics, AI, Digital Design and Manufacturing Innovator and Entrepreneur

Joanne Pransky

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 experience of a…

Accuracy estimation of a stretch-retractable single section continuum manipulator based on inverse kinematics

Hao Wang, GuoHua Gao, Qixiao Xia, Han Ren, LianShi Li, Yuhang Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel stretch-retractable single section (SRSS) continuum manipulator which owns three degrees of freedom and higher motion range in…

Kinematic calibration of bracket type parallel posture alignment mechanism considering the gravity effect

Zhihao Wang, Wenliang Chen, Min Wang, Qinghe Xu, Can Huang

The purpose of this study is to improve the position and posture accuracy of posture alignment mechanism. The automatic drilling and riveting machine is an important equipment for…

A medical transportation robot for carrying and positioning patients between different devices

Weidong Wang, Chengjin Du, Zhijiang Du

This paper aims to present a prototype of medical transportation robot whose positioning accuracy can reach millimeter-level in terms of patient transportation. By using this kind…

A rehabilitation gait for the balance of human and lower extremity exoskeleton system based on the transfer of gravity center

Hansong Wang, Canjun Yang, Wei Yang, Meiying Deng, Zhangyi Ma, Qianxiao Wei

Most current lower extremity exoskeletons emphasize assistance for walking rather than stability. The purpose of this paper is to propose a rehabilitation gait based on the…

Complete relative pose error model for robot calibration

Shiwei Wang, Qingxuan Jia, Gang Chen, Dan Liu

This paper aims to present a complete relative pose error model for robot calibration, considering both the relative distance error and the relative rotation error of the robot…

Motion posture control for power cable maintenance robot in typical operation conditions

Wei Jiang, Meng Huai Peng, Yu Yan, Gongping Wu, An Zhang, Lianqing Yu, Hong Jun Li

In the extreme power environment of flexible transmission line, wind load, high voltage and strong electromagnetic interference, the motion performance of the robot manipulator is…

Effects on knee joint force from a body weight load reduction system driven by rubber-less artificial muscle

Naoki Saito, Toshiyuki Satoh, Norihiko Saga

The purpose of this study is to confirm that the body weight load reduction system which is developed by us is effective to reduce the knee joint force of the walking user. This…

High precise and zero-cost solution for fully automatic industrial robot TCP calibration

Mustafa Cakir, Cengiz Deniz

The purpose of this study is to present a novel method for industrial robot TCP (tool center point) calibration. The proposed method offers fully automated robot TCP calibration…

A coupled and indirectly self-adaptive under-actuated hand with double-linkage-slider mechanism

Siyun Liu, Wenzeng Zhang, Jie Sun

Underactuated fingers are adapted to generate several grasping modes for different tasks, and coupled fingers and self-adaptive fingers are two important types of them. Aiming to…

System identification and a model-based control strategy of motor driven system with high order flexible manipulator

Youshuang Ding, Xi Xiao, Xuanrui Huang, Jiexiang Sun

This paper aims to propose a novel system identification and resonance suppression strategy for motor-driven system with high-order flexible manipulator.

Design, analysis and experiment of an eight-wheel robotic vehicle with four-swing arms

Miaolei He, Changji Ren, Jilin He, Kang Wu, Yuming Zhao, Zhijie Wang, Can Wu

Excellent obstacle surmounting performance is essential for the robotic vehicles in uneven terrain. However, existing robotic vehicles depend on complex mechanisms or control…

Calibration of a six-axis parallel manipulator based on BP neural network

Dianjin Zhang, Guangyu Zhang, Longqiu Li

This paper aims to provide a simple and flexible calibration method of parallel manipulators for improving the position accuracy only using partial pose information.

Torque control based direct teaching for industrial robot considering temperature-load effects on joint friction

Liming Gao, Jianjun Yuan, Yingjie Qian

The purpose of this paper is to design a practical direct teaching method for the industrial robot with large friction resistance and gravity torque but without expensive…

Live maintenance robot for high-voltage transmission lines

Wei Jiang, Yu Yan, An Zhang, Lianqing Yu, Gan Zuo, Hong Jun Li, Wei Chen

The purpose of this paper is to improve the operation and maintenance intelligence of power systems, and summarize the transmission line robots and their key technologies…