Industrial Robot: Volume 49 Issue 5

Exoskeletons: a review of recent progress

Robert Bogue

This paper aims to provide an insight into recent developments in the robotic exoskeleton business by considering research, corporate activities, products and emerging…

The Pransky interview: Harry Kloor, PhD, PhD – CEO and Co-Founder, Beyond Imagination Inc.; scientist; entrepreneur; inventor; filmmaker

Joanne Pransky

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

Constant force control for aluminum wheel hub grinding based on ESO + backstepping

Shijie Dai, Yufeng Zhao, Wenbin Ji, Jiaheng Mu, Fengbao Hu

This paper aims to present a control method to realize the constant force grinding of automobile wheel hub.

Intelligent obstacle avoidance path planning method for picking manipulator combined with artificial potential field method

Zheng Fang, Xifeng Liang

The results of obstacle avoidance path planning for the manipulator using artificial potential field (APF) method contain a large number of path nodes, which reduce the efficiency…

Vision sensor based residual vibration suppression strategy of non-deformable object for robot-assisted assembly operation with gripper flexibility

Chetan Jalendra, B.K. Rout, Amol Marathe

Industrial robots are extensively deployed to perform repetitive and simple tasks at high speed to reduce production time and improve productivity. In most cases, a compliant…

Obtaining the effective gripper dimensions for a kiwifruit harvesting robot using kinematic calibration procedures

Chi Kit Au, Michael Redstall, Mike Duke, Ye Chow Kuang, Shen Hin Lim

A harvesting robot is developed as part of kiwifruit industry automation in New Zealand. This kiwifruit harvester is currently not economically viable, as it drops and damages too…

Robot hand-eye cooperation based on improved inverse reinforcement learning

Ning Yu, Lin Nan, Tao Ku

How to make accurate action decisions based on visual information is one of the important research directions of industrial robots. The purpose of this paper is to design a highly…

Design and kinematic analysis of new multi-mode mobile parallel mechanism with deployable platform

An Ping, Chunyan Zhang, Jie Yang

This study aims to make the mobile robot better adapt to the patrol and monitoring in industrial field substation area, a multi-mode mobile carrying mechanism which can carrying…

Adaptive enhanced admittance force-tracking controller design for highly dynamic interactive tasks

Chengguo Liu, Ye He, Xiaoan Chen, Hongli Cao

As more and more robots are used in industry, it is necessary for robots to interact with high dynamic environments. For this reason, the purpose of this research is to form an…

Development of a UVC-based disinfection robot

Ye Ma, Ning Xi, Yuxuan Xue, Siyu Wang, Qingyang Wang, Ye Gu

The disinfection robot developed by the authors and team focuses on achieving fast and precise disinfection under a given or specific disinfection zone. This looks to solve…

Mechanical performance analysis and experimental study of soft-bodied bird-billed pneumatic gripper

Lihua Cai, Shuo Dong, Xi Huang, Haifeng Fang, Jianguo She

Flexible mechanical gripper has better safety and adaptability than a rigid mechanical hand. At present, there are few soft grippers for small objects on a millimeter scale…

A novel closed-form solutions method based on the product of exponential model for the minimally invasive surgical robot

Tao Song, Bo Pan, Guojun Niu, Yili Fu

This study aims to represent a novel closed-form solutions method based on the product of the exponential model to solve the inverse kinematics of a robotic manipulator. In…

Modeling and implementation of a novel amphibious robot with multimode motion

Xuelong Li, Lei Jiang, Xinxin Liu, Ruina Dang, Fusheng Liu, Wang Wei, Tong Zhang, Guoshun Wang

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the modeling and implementation of a novel multimode amphibious robot, which is used for patrol and beach garbage cleaning in the…

Motion optimization of an omnidirectional mobile robot with MY wheel based on contact mechanics

Changlong Ye, Yingxin Sun, Suyang Yu, Jian Ding, Chunying Jiang

The mechanical properties between wheel and ground will affect the motion performance of wheeled omnidirectional mobile robot (OMR). MY3 wheel is an omnidirectional wheel. This…

An improved pure pursuit path tracking control method based on heading error rate

Lihui Wang, ZongLiang Chen, Wenxing Zhu

In path tracking, pure pursuit (PP) has great superiority due to its simple control. However, when in agricultural applications, the performance and accuracy of PP are not so…

Circumferentially rotatable inspection robot with elastic suspensions for bridge cables

Jie Li, Chenyang Yin, Yunde Shi, Suya Dai, Xingsong Wang

Periodic inspection of bridge cables is essential, and cable-climbing robots can replace human workers to perform risky tasks and improve inspection efficiency. However, cable…

A lightweight variable stiffness knee exoskeleton driven by shape memory alloy

Jiaqi Zhang, Ming Cong, Dong Liu, Yu Du, Hongjiang Ma

This paper aims to get rid of the traditional basic principle of using the motor as the variable stiffness drive source, simplify the structure of the exoskeleton and reduce the…

Research on obstacle avoidance gait planning of quadruped crawling robot based on slope terrain recognition

Peng Wang, Chunxiao Song, Renquan Dong, Peng Zhang, Shuang Yu, Hao Zhang

Aiming at the problem that quadruped crawling robot is easy to collide and overturn when facing obstacles and bulges in the process of complex slope movement, this paper aims to…