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It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the 6th Robotics and Mechatronics (RobMech) conference at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. The conference is held at the new Engineering Building that is designed to create an enabling environment for the students, while providing a “green” hub for university, industry and community-related activities.
In recent years there has been a growing demand on manufacturers to produce products at higher throughputs while maintaining low operational costs. A poor performance of the materials handling component in a flexible manufacturing system negatively impacts the material flow efficiency which creates bottlenecks in the manufacturing process. This paper discusses the development of an intelligence system...
The aim of this paper is to analyze literature related to Reconfigurable Supply Chains (RSC) and how it can be used to assist the South African Press Tool Manufacturing Industry to become more competitive globally. The method used is an Inductive Approach where it starts by looking at the current state of the South African Manufacturing Industry and then moves to how Reconfigurable Supply Chains can...
Mobile robots have demonstrated their versatility in a wide range of applications and situations. However, they are limited due to their reliance on traditional energy sources such as electricity and petroleum which cannot always provide a convenient energy source in all situations. Moreover, in a more eco-conscious modern world, these energy sources, which require the burning of a fuel in order to...
This paper presents a path planning approach for kinematically redundant manipulators working in cluttered environments. The focus of this paper is on the challenges of spatial manipulators with large number of degrees of freedom (dof's). For obstacle avoidance in three-dimensional workspaces, a penalizing scheme is proposed. Based on variational calculus, this approach involves the formulation of...
Presented in this paper is an investigation of the use of ensemble methods in machine learning for developing function approximation models of the analytical objective function, to be applied to an optimization search process of a 6 DOF parallel manipulator. The process of optimization of these mechanisms can be cumbersome, as it often involves complex objective functions and diverse design parameters...
The aim of this project was to create a 6 degree of freedom (DOF) robotic manipulator that had a workspace to footprint ratio comparable to that of a serial robot but with a lower inertia, higher speed and improved energy efficiency. This paper briefly describes some parts of the design and then discusses the method used to obtain results for a simulated energy comparison against a serial robot.
In this paper, high-index norm approach towards inverse kinematic problem of redundant manipulators is investigated. It is well known that the inverse kinematics problem of redundant manipulator has infinite solutions. Out of these infinite solutions, only those solutions are preferred which fulfill some optimization criterion e.g joint toque minimization, obstacle avoidance, singularity avoidance...
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