Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a novel automatic planning and coordinated control method of redundant dual‐arm space robot for inner space‐station operation based on multiple sensors information by stages. Design/methodology/approach – In order to improve the...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the development and testing of a system for the automated deburring of aero‐engine components. Design/methodology/approach – The system described in this paper uses an in‐process measurement sensor to determine the component's exact location prior to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the design and implementation of a new manipulator with six joints driven by a single DC motor. Design/methodology/approach – The manipulator consists of several modules, each of which has the twisting and pivoting degrees of freedom. Two...

Purpose – Building inspection tasks usually involve working at life‐threatening height, especially for high‐rise buildings. The purpose of this paper is to introduce two service robots which are designed for high‐rise building inspection applications. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – Object tracking has been a challenging problem of robot vision over the decades, which plays a key role in a wide spectrum of visual tracking‐related applications such as surveillance, visual servoing, sensing and navigation in robotics, video compression. The purpose of this paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a two‐wheeled inverted pendulum with self‐tilt‐up motion ability. With this ability, the two‐wheeled inverted pendulum can erect without assistance, and then the vehicle can be autonomously deployed. The paper proposes an approach to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case‐based system for offline automatic programming in robotic assembly production. This system can reuse past learned robot programs to generate programs for new assembly tasks. Design/methodology/approach – The approach used in this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the uses of robots in the nuclear power industry, with an emphasis on newer developments and applications. Design/methodology/approach – Following an introduction to the nuclear industry, this paper considers robotic applications...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the development and validation of a methodology which allows modeling and solving the inverse and direct dynamic problem in real time in robot manipulators. Design/methodology/approach – The robot dynamic equation is based on the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the control of six degrees of freedom (PUMA560) robotic arm using visual servoing, based upon linear matrix inequality (LMI). The aim lies in developing such a method that neither involves camera calibration parameters nor inverse kinematics....