Purpose – Different machines are already present in the human environment, easing human beings' daily life. In the future, this tendency will be accentuated by integration of numerous robots (e.g. wheeled robots, legged robots, humanoid robots, network sensors, etc.) in the human environment....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the radial basis function (RBF) networks‐based adaptive robust control for an omni‐directional wheeled mobile manipulator in the presence of uncertainties and disturbances. Design/methodology/approach – First, a dynamic model is obtained...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the applicability of biometric systems in travel and explain how they can be used in response to today's increasing security problems. Design/methodology/approach – This research is conceptual. Its analysis is based on an extensive review of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of simple expert systems to improve the performance of tele‐operated mobile robots and ultrasonic sensor systems. The expert systems interpret data from the joystick and sensors and identify potentially hazardous situations and then...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the trajectory planning problem of industrial robots in a complex environment. Design/methodology/approach – A simultaneous algorithm was presented in which the trajectory was generated gradually as the robot moves. It takes into account the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new manipulator structure to configure power‐assist devices in order to protect the operator from suffering musculoskeletal disorders. The mechanical structure and the control system along with their main features are presented....

Purpose – Nonprofit performance measurement is receiving increasing academic and practitioner attention, but the design of nonprofit measurement systems has received limited consideration. This is in contrast to the well‐established body of knowledge that focuses on performance measurement...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel error‐ranking methodology and two compensation strategies for hybrid parallel kinematic machines (HPKMs). Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines an error analysis methodology developed for HPKMs and applies the technique...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a distributed multiple mobile robot system that provides a collaborative control and simulation environment. Design/methodology/approach – A CORBA‐based cooperative system is designed to implement a robotic layered cooperative mechanism....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the properties of the classical goodness of fit test statistics X 2 , G 2 , GM 2 , and NM 2 in testing quality of process represented as the trinomial distribution with dip null hypothesis and to devise a control chart for the trinomial...