Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the torque, power, jerk and energy consumed constraints on the generation of minimum time collision‐free trajectories for industrial robots in a complex environment. Design/methodology/approach – An algorithm is presented in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the interdisciplinary research field, autonomous industrial mobile manipulation (AIMM), with an emphasis on physical implementations and applications. Design/methodology/approach – Following an introduction to AIMM, this paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to model a motor region named the mesencephalic locomotors region (MLR) which is located in the end part of the brain and first part of the spinal cord. This model will be used for a Nao soccer player humanoid robot. It consists of three main parts: High...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a screw axis identification (SAI) method based on the product of exponentials (POE) model, which is concerned with calibrating a serial robot with m joints equipped with a stereo‐camera vision system. Design/methodology/approach – Different...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the methodology to the robust stability analysis of a vision‐based control loop in an uncalibrated environment. The type of uncertainties considered is the parametric uncertainties. The approach adopted in this paper utilizes quadratic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a maximum speed algorithm for serial palletizing robots, which guarantees relatively low system modeling requirements and can be easily implemented in actual applications. Design/methodology/approach – Operation speed is an important index of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a new smooth online near time‐optimal trajectory planning approach to reduce the consuming time compared to the conventional dynamics trajectory planning methods. Design/methodology/approach – In the proposed method, the robot path is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the design and the multi‐mode locomotion function of the new reconfigurable modular robotic system – UBot system – which combines the advantages from the chain‐based and lattice‐based self‐reconfigurable robots....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide details on implementation of inexpensive and accurate automation solution for performing brisket cutting while the sheep/lamb is hanging by forelegs. Design/methodology/approach – The system developed uses 6 Degree of freedom (DOF) industrial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a calibration method that can calibrate the relationships among the robot manipulator, the camera and the workspace. Design/methodology/approach – The method uses a laser pointer rigidly mounted on the manipulator and projects the laser beam...