Industrial Robot: Volume 50 Issue 3

The role of robots in environmental monitoring

Robert Bogue

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the growing role of robots in environmental monitoring.

Robotic direct grinding for unknown workpiece contour based on adaptive constant force control and human–robot collaboration

Wei Zhao, Juliang Xiao, Sijiang Liu, Saixiong Dou, Haitao Liu

In customized production such as plate workpiece grinding, because of the diversity of the workpiece shapes and the positional/orientational clamping errors, great efforts are…

Kinematic modeling of a spatial three degrees-of-freedom compliant micro-motion parallel mechanism considering input coupling effect and bilateral restrained torsion

Zhicheng Song, Xiang Li, Xiaolong Yang, Yao Li, Linkang Wang, Hongtao Wu

This paper aims to improve the kinematic modeling accuracy of a spatial three-degrees-of-freedom compliant micro-motion parallel mechanism by proposing a modified modeling method…

Robot vision-based control strategy to suppress residual vibration of a flexible beam for assembly

Chetan Jalendra, B.K. Rout, Amol Marathe

Industrial robots are extensively used in the robotic assembly of rigid objects, whereas the assembly of flexible objects using the same robot becomes cumbersome and challenging…

A fully actuated aerial manipulator system for industrial contact inspection applications

Shuang Hao, Guangming Song, Juzheng Mao, Yue Gu, Aiguo Song

This paper aims to present a fully actuated aerial manipulator (AM) with a robust motion/force hybrid controller for conducting contact-typed inspection tasks in industrial plants.

A systematic review of technological advancements in signal sensing, actuation, control and training methods in robotic exoskeletons for rehabilitation

Meby Mathew, Mervin Joe Thomas, M.G. Navaneeth, Shifa Sulaiman, A.N. Amudhan, A.P. Sudheer

The purpose of this review paper is to address the substantial challenges of the outdated exoskeletons used for rehabilitation and further study the current advancements in this…

An inchworm-inspired soft robot with combined functions of omni-directional steering and obstacle surmounting

Jiang Ding, Hanfei Su, Weihang Nong, Changyang Huang

Soft rod-climbing robots have been known to have great potential in a wide variety of working conditions, including cable inspection and pipeline maintenance. However, one of the…

Event-triggered aperiodic intermittent sliding-mode control for master–slave bilateral teleoperation robotic systems

Hang Gao, Chao Ma

The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel event-triggered aperiodic intermittent sliding-mode control (ETAI-SMC) algorithm for master–slave bilateral teleoperation robotic…

M³LVI: a multi-feature, multi-metric, multi-loop, LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping

Jiaxiang Hu, Xiaojun Shi, Chunyun Ma, Xin Yao, Yingxin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi-feature, multi-metric and multi-loop tightly coupled LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry, M³LVI, for high-accuracy and robust state…

PP-GraspNet: 6-DoF grasp generation in clutter using a new grasp representation method

Enbo Li, Haibo Feng, Yili Fu

The grasping task of robots in dense cluttered scenes from a single-view has not been solved perfectly, and there is still a problem of low grasping success rate. This study aims…

An iterative path-following method for hyper-redundant snake-like manipulator with joint limits

Cheng Wang, Haibo Xie, Huayong Yang

This paper aims to present an iterative path-following method with joint limits to solve the problem of large computation cost, movement exceeding joint limits and poor…

Design and development of a cable-driven elephant trunk robot with variable cross-sections

Guodong Qin, Qi Wang, Changyang Li, Aihong Ji, Huapeng Wu, Zhikang Yang, Shikun Wen

In large equipment and highly complex confined workspaces, the maintenance is usually carried out by snake-arm robots with equal cross-sections. However, the equal cross-sectional…

Adaptive fractional-order admittance control for force tracking in highly dynamic unknown environments

Kaixin Li, Ye He, Kuan Li, Chengguo Liu

With the increasing demands of industrial applications, it is imperative for robots to accomplish good contact-interaction with dynamic environments. Hence, the purpose of this…

Semantic stereo visual SLAM toward outdoor dynamic environments based on ORB-SLAM2

Yawen Li, Guangming Song, Shuang Hao, Juzheng Mao, Aiguo Song

The prerequisite for most traditional visual simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) algorithms is that most objects in the environment should be static or in low-speed…