Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design an integrated localization system for mobile robots in underground environments for exploring and rescuing tasks after incidents and detection of hazard gas in tunnels before ingress. Design/methodology/approach – An integrated localization...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a novel multimodal approach to the problem of planning and performing a reliable grasping action on unmodeled objects. Design/methodology/approach – The robotic system is composed of three main components. The first is a conceptual...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a navigation system designed for highly dynamic environments which is independent from a metrically exact global map. Design/methodology/approach – A navigation system is developed to cope with highly dynamic environments. Here, this refers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages of two‐arm robots in the industrial environment. Design/methodology/approach – The innovative thinking behind Motoman's dual arm humanoid robot is presented. Then, its technical design and its industrial applications are...

Purpose – Path planning approaches based on conventional occupancy grid maps are problematic in off‐road environment because impossible areas include not only obstacles but also landscapes like ramps and pits. The purpose of this paper is to develop a path planning method in a hybrid grid...

Purpose – Provide a better understanding of the functionalities and benefits of the procurement card technology (P‐Card), and examines the card's impact on management control and the audit function. Design/methodology/approach – Describes the recent published works on P‐Card's benefits...

Manufacturers of consumer goods need to see the market situation and end customer demand in order to efficiently allocate production capacity and procure materials. However, the difficulty to obtain timely and accurate demand data from the point‐of‐sales (POS) calls for alternative solutions...

In order to bridge the increasing gap between the micro‐ and nanotechnologies, a European consortium is currently developing and investigating a cluster of mobile, wireless cubic centimetre‐sized microrobots. The control and sensor issues which are to be solved for such a robot system are...