Industrial Robot: Volume 47 Issue 4

Humanoid robots from the past to the present

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide technical details of humanoid robot developments from the 1970s to the present day and to consider their potential applications and prospects.

High torque realization of the stepping over gait for a humanoid robot

Keqiang Bai, Yunzhi Luo, Guanwu Jiang, Guoli Jiang, Li Guo

This paper aims to propose a pulsing type joint servo driver-based obstacle surmounting method for a humanoid robot according to the whole-body dynamics model, which fully takes…

Design and control of an exoskeleton robot with EMG-driven electrical stimulation for upper limb rehabilitation

Yassine Bouteraa, Ismail Ben Abdallah, Ahmed Elmogy

The purpose of this paper is to design and develop a new robotic device for the rehabilitation of the upper limbs. The authors are focusing on a new symmetrical robot which can be…

Workspace analysis of Cartesian robot system for kiwifruit harvesting

ChiKit Au, Joshua Barnett, Shen Hin Lim, Mike Duke

This paper aims to investigate if a Cartesian robot system for kiwifruit harvesting works more effectively and efficiently than an articulated robot system. The robot is a key…

Hybrid calibration and detection approach for mobile robotic manufacturing systems

Jing Bai, Yuchang Zhang, Xiansheng Qin, Zhanxi Wang, Chen Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to present a visual detection approach to predict the poses of target objects placed in arbitrary positions before completing the corresponding tasks…

Robot-assisted 3D digital reconstruction of heritage artifacts: area similarity approach

Rajkumar Gothandaraman, Sreekumar Muthuswamy

This paper aims to propose a system to acquire images automatically for digital reconstruction of heritage artifacts using a six-degree of freedom industrial manipulator.

Optimal path search and control of mobile robot using hybridized sine-cosine algorithm and ant colony optimization technique

Saroj Kumar, Dayal R. Parhi, Manoj Kumar Muni, Krishna Kant Pandey

This paper aims to incorporate a hybridized advanced sine-cosine algorithm (ASCA) and advanced ant colony optimization (AACO) technique for optimal path search with control over…

Offline programming method and implementation of industrial robot grinding based on VTK

Lei Hong, Baosheng Wang, XiaoLan Yang, Yuguo Wang, Zhong Lin

The purpose of this paper is to present a robotic off-line programming method for freeform surface grinding based on visualization toolkit (VTK). Nowadays, manual grinding and…

Image-based control of delta parallel robots via enhanced LCM-CSM to track moving objects

J. Guillermo Lopez-Lara, Mauro Eduardo Maya, Alejandro González, Antonio Cardenas, Liliana Felix

The purpose of this paper is to present a new vision-based control method, which enables delta-type parallel robots to track and manipulate objects moving in arbitrary…

Plane-based stairway mapping for legged robot locomotion

Seungjun Woo, Francisco Yumbla, Chanyong Park, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Hyungpil Moon

The purpose of this study is to propose a novel plane-based mapping method for legged-robot navigation in a stairway environment.

A novel multi-brand robotic software interface for industrial additive manufacturing cells

Carlos Ye Zhu, J. Norberto Pires, Amin Azar

This study aims to report the development of a provisional robotic cell for additive manufacturing (AM) of metallic parts. To this end, the paper discusses cross-disciplinary…

Deep instance segmentation and 6D object pose estimation in cluttered scenes for robotic autonomous grasping

Yongxiang Wu, Yili Fu, Shuguo Wang

This paper aims to design a deep neural network for object instance segmentation and six-dimensional (6D) pose estimation in cluttered scenes and apply the proposed method in…

A survey of energy-efficient motion planning for wheeled mobile robots

Haojie Zhang, Yudong Zhang, Tiantian Yang

As wheeled mobile robots find increasing use in outdoor applications, it becomes more important to reduce energy consumption to perform more missions efficiently with limit energy…

Dynamical system based variable admittance control for physical human-robot interaction

Feifei Bian, Danmei Ren, Ruifeng Li, Peidong Liang, Ke Wang, Lijun Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to enable robots to intelligently adapt their damping characteristics and motions in a reactive fashion toward human inputs and task requirements…