Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results obtained in the field tests of a new system for detection and location of antipersonnel land mines. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents briefly the overall system and then it focuses on the description and analysis of...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to provide a new wafer prealigning robot for the photo‐etching facility during the manufacturing of IC products. Design/methodology/approach – The shape center is measured by a reflection‐style laser sensor in the wafer's radial direction, and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of time delay on the ability of a human operator to complete a task with a teleoperated mobile‐robot using two systems, two different ways of interacting with the mobile‐robots and several different environments....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to make powered‐wheelchair driving easier using simple expert systems to interpret joystick and ultrasonic sensor data. The expert systems interpret shaky joystick movement and identify potentially hazardous situations and then...