Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the control methods of the exoskeleton robotic arm for stroke rehabilitation. Design/methodology/approach – The robotic arm is driven by the pneumatic muscle actuators. The control system provides independent control for the robot. The joint...

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 – Active contour can describe target's silhouette accurately and has been widely used in image segmentation and target tracking. Its main drawback is huge computation that is still not well resolved. The purpose of this paper is to optimize the evolving path of active contour, to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the design and fabrication of magnetic couplings to use for vacuum robots. The permanent magnetic coupling (PMC) is appropriate for torque transmission in ultrahigh vacuum and highly clean environments. However, conventional structures of PMC...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a unified approach to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for camera calibration. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is based on the fact that camera calibration is a problem of parameter estimation and the parameters of interest are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new scout robot that tries to combine the hopping movement and the wheeling movement to greatly enlarge the scope of robot's activities. Design/methodology/approach – A five‐shank hopping mechanism was employed to build the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between automated assembly and mass production environments such as the manufacture of cars, airplanes and white goods and methods of modelling and simulation. Even in this environment high‐level automated assembly is...