Search Results - subject:"robotics"

Connolly, Christine - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 456-459

Purpose – Examines a recently launched integration of smart cameras into industrial robots to make them responsive to a changing environment. Design/methodology/approach – Reviews the capabilities of the vision‐enabled robot, citing installations in Sweden and the UK, then describes the...

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Japanese prototype service robot R&D trends and examples

Ranky, Gregory N.; Ranky, Paul G. - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 460-464

/methodology/approach – Displays two examples of service robotics: the forestry robot WOODY‐1, and the android presenter and entertainer …/informer/guide Repliee Q1. Findings – More and more frequently robotics usage has expanded into more diverse areas that involve work outside … identifies some new R&D trends and requirements. Research limitations/implications – The potential for new service robotics …

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Automation in the sky

Kochan, Anna - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 468-471

Purpose – Aims to summarise the programme of UV Europe, a conference on unmanned vehicles that took place in Paris in June 2005. Design/methodology/approach – Selects key conference presentations and summarises their contents, indicating the main themes. Findings – Finds very strong...

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Japanese robotics – where to go?

Kusuda, Yoshihiro - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 472-476

society. Leads to suggest the new direction of Japanese robotics. Findings – Specific target robots for the future are …

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Weighted path planning based on collision detection

Lu, Shujun; Chung, Jae H. - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 477-484

Purpose – Aims to make an industrial robot work human‐friendly while coexisting with humans in a same working space, without any modification of the manipulator hardware as well as its motion controller. Design/methodology/approach – Presents a weighted path planning approach based on...

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Flexible full‐body tactile sensor of low cost and minimal output connections for service robot

Pan, Zengxi; Zhu, Zhenqi - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 485-491

Purpose – This paper aims to design a new full‐body tactile sensor which is essential for the application of personal service robot similar to human skin. Design/methodology/approach – The largest difficulty for designing a full‐body tactile sensor is the huge number of output...

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SOHO security with mini self‐balancing robots

Ko, Albert; Lau, H.Y.K.; Lau, T.L. - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 492-498

Purpose – To present the design and control of a low cost, two‐wheeled, self‐balancing robot for detecting and reporting fire and intruders in a small home/office setting. Design/methodology/approach – Implement an intelligent control system to make up for instabilities of low‐cost...

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The impact of spoken interfaces on the design of service robots

Bugmann, G.; Wolf, J.C.; Robinson, P. - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 499-504

Purpose – Service robots need to be programmable by their users who are in general unskilled in the art of robot programming. We have explored the use of spoken language for programming robots. Design/methodology/approach – Two applications domains were studied: that of route instructions...

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Robot‐by‐voice: experiments on commanding an industrial robot using the human voice

Norberto Pires, J. - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 6, pp. 505-511

Purpose – This paper reports a few results of an ongoing research project that aims to explore ways to command an industrial robot using the human voice. This feature can be interesting with several industrial, laboratory and clean‐room applications, where a close cooperation between robots...

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Intelligent manipulation and grasping: a challenge for near future robotics

Molfino, Rezia - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 32 (2005) 1

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