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This paper is focused on a complex robotic process called bin-picking. It is a very known and well-researched topic in the field of robotic manipulation where the robot is expected to grasp non-oriented objects from a bin and placed them to locations within the following process flow. Although we present here a functional case study of a bin-picking system based on a modified revolving vision system,...
Modern day automated systems within industry used fixed programming methods to control their systems. This ensures error-free and quick operation resulting in quick product creation. While this method is assuring for a fixed product line, it requires changes to be made when introducing different or new products on the same assembly system. The RobotSensorInterface (RSI) system allows an external sensor...
This article introduces the Hardware Robot Operating System (H-ROS), a joint hardware and software infrastructure to create vendor-agnostic reusable and reconfigurable robot hardware components. These robot components dynamically modify and extend the internal representation model of the robot enabling robots to switch on or off components selectively and literally exchange hardware components between...
Most industrial/commercial robots typically employ an unmodifiable inner joint controller and only the joint position or velocity command can be designed by the user. In this paper, we propose a robust approach to the control of such robotic systems with the uncertainty and nonlinearity being taken into consideration. We develop robust outer loop controllers that can rigorously ensure the uniform...
The use of robots is becoming more common in society. Industrial robots are being developed to work with people, and lower-force collaborative robots are being developed to help people in their everyday lives. These may need fast and sophisticated motion control and behavioral algorithms, but are expected to be more compact and lower cost. This paper proposes a processor plus FPGA solution for the...
The growing interest in robotics has originated, in these recent years, the development of a high variety of intelligent and autonomous robots, and a great number of software frameworks for robotics. This paper surveys some representative of the existing of these development frameworks. In addition, it describes and compares their principal features and limitations. The paper provides also information...
The article shows an omnidirectional mobile platform control using the PWM technique for mobile robot applications like service robots. Characterization methodology to obtain information of the real operation for platform omnidirectional displacements are shown. Implementation with a commercial mechanical platform to be used as the vehicle as well as the used components are described in order to be...
This paper gives an instruction of the robotics applied for power industry in China. Firstly, it is the instruction of the actuality of the electric power industry in China. And we introduce the robotics applied in the field of the power generator, for different application requirements, include generator detection robot, robot in nuclear power station and for the hydropower station detection. Then...
Using standard 6 DOF industrial robots for machining applications represents a significant market potential. Industrial robots have become a tool for various machining processes due to its universality — an ability to perform any type of movement in space — and low price compared to CNC milling machines. However, there are still limitations concerned with a much lower absolute accuracy, in comparison...
Begin Robotics is a successful open online course developed at the University of Reading, run on the FutureLearn platform, for which around 25,000 participants have enrolled in its first three runs. Whilst it is aimed at introducing robotics and the associated subjects of cybernetics, artificial intelligence, control and haptics to Key Stage 3 pupils, it has been taken by other groups from around...
From drones to self-driving cars, robot swarms are becoming pervasive and are used in many kinds of applications. However, common "swarm libraries" for software development do not yet exist, and reusing code is difficult owing to the lack of swarm-centric development platforms. Buzz, a programming language for heterogeneous robot swarms, aims to address these problems.
Robotics as a subject has always been an attractive course for students due to current overwhelming present of robots in various human activities, and desire to learn the magic behind the machine operation. However, delivering the fundamental concepts in robotic (especially for serial robot manipulator) such as kinematics, dynamics, coordinate transformation and trajectory planning is neither easy...
RoboCup is a platform for professionals, students and enthusiasts to demonstrate their technical skills in the domain of Artificial Intelligence for everyday life usage like in soccer, home or work. RobCup@Home is a part of RoboCup, which deals with domestic service Robots. In this paper we discuss different development approaches, components and algorithms used to design and develop Robots used in...
In this paper we present a novel idea for the creation of an intelligent interface that allows the remote control of arbitrarily complex robotics morphologies by translating intuitive human behaviours into purposeful robotic actions. By taking inspiration from human robot interaction, ergonomic principles, and autonomous robotics this paper proposes a human-centric framework for robot control inspired...
Industrial 6DOF robots have become a tool for various machining processes due to its universality — an ability to perform any type of movement in space — and low price compared to standard 5-Axis milling machines. However, main limited factors stems from the fact that the robot accuracy with serial kinematics is much lower in comparison with CNC machines. Using the robots for machining is therefore...
Industrial robots have been employed worldwide in the manufacturing sector for performing tasks quickly, repeatedly and accurately in relatively static environments for over 30 years. In recent years, close physical interaction between industrial robots and human operators has attracted researchers' attention and encouraged a number of technological innovations to turn these robots into human-robot...
Robotics is considered to be a powerful tool for teaching STEM especially when employing white-box platforms to build and program robots. In this context, programming environments should be simple and understandable for increasing the learning success and for easing the entry for teachers with non-informatics background. Furthermore, many robotics applications can also benefit from flexibility in...
This paper discusses the architecture, the development and the implementation of a natural interface based on a vision system to control an industrial hydraulic robot arm with three Degrees Of Freedom (3 DOF). The project consists of using the natural movements of a human operator to capture commands to move the robot arm. By moving his upper limbs, hands and arms, the human operator generates control...
Due to its high potential and encouraging results, project-based learning emerges as a highly interesting paradigm in the education systems worldwide. Moreover, robotics is an interdisciplinary field where students could learn and apply their skills in mechanics, electronics, computer science, mathematics and control engineering. This paper presents a robotics project-based learning methodology which...
We propose an approach for integrated object and path demonstration. The main idea is to choose the motion of the robot depending on the object it grabs. When programming, an object is fixed at the robot's gripper. Path programming is done using haptic guidance. Afterwards, if a robot is handed over an object it knows before, it reproduces the path assigned to the object. Path programming and object...
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