Purpose – The paper aims to overcome the shortcomings that proportional‐integral‐derivative (PID) control for unmanned robot applied to automotive test (URAT) needs a priori manual retuning, has large speed fluctuations and is hard to adjust control parameters. A novel control approach...

Purpose – Mobile robots become more and more important for many potential applications such as navigation and surveillance. The paper proposes an image processing scheme for moving object detection from a mobile robot with a single camera. It especially aims at intruder detection for the...

Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to propose a full model‐based method for distance‐mapping calibration for the non‐SVP (non‐single viewpoint) catadioptric camera of the soccer robot. The method should be easy to operate, efficient, accurate, and scalable to fit larger...

Purpose – This paper aims to address a new iterative tuning method of PID control for robot manipulators. Design/methodology/approach – This tuning method uses several properties of the robot control, such as any PD control can stabilize a robot in regulation case, the closed-loop system of...

Purpose – Refurbishing may be the most practical approach under the low volume production. This effort aims to achieve robotic laser cladding with the main purpose of achieving maximum processing flexibility, predictably high quality, lower maintenance and operating costs. This study aims to...

Purpose – The electronics industries are relying increasingly on robotics for their production. Wafer handling robots are used to transfer wafers between wafer processing stations. A pick‐measure‐place method is typically utilized to transfer wafers accurately. The measurement step is...

Purpose – Penetration state is one of the most important factors for judging the quality of a gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) joint. The purpose of this paper is to identify and classify the penetration state and welding quality through the features of arc sound signal during robotic GTAW...

Purpose – This paper aims to present a technique for optimal trajectory planning of industrial robots that applies a new harmony search (HS) algorithm. Design/methodology/approach – The new HS optimization algorithm adds one more operation to the original HS algorithm. The objective function...

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss the review of the most recent PackExpo show in Chicago with emphasis on the new robot innovations and applications on display. Design/methodology/approach – In-depth interviews with exhibitors of robots, integrators of robots and suppliers of robot...

Purpose – With the rapid and pervasive introduction of robots into human environments, ethics scholars along with roboticists are asking how ethics can be applied to the discipline of robotics. The purpose of this paper is to provide a concrete example of incorporating ethics into the design...