Purpose – The paper aims to develop a robotic deburring method based on a new active pneumatic tool. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a new active pneumatic tool, which is developed by integrating two industrial pneumatic deburring tools based on a double cutting action –...

Purpose – The paper aims to develop a robot that climbs on non‐ferrous surfaces, e.g. aircraft wings and fuselages, carrying a heavy payload up to 18 kg including scanning arm and various equipments, for non‐destructive testing (NDT). Design/methodology/approach – This robot in the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to integrate perception, action and symbolic knowledge to allow an autonomous robot to operate in unstructured environments and to interact with non‐expert users. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve such goals, a cognitive robot architecture is...

Purpose – The paper seeks to develop a stereo vision system based on a new binocular device. It aims to present an explicit‐implicit correction method to correct radial and tangential distortion of image synchronously. It also aims to propose a step‐rotation rectification method to rectify...