Introducing autonomous aerial robots in industrial manufacturing

On Autonomous and Teleoperated Aerial Service Robots: Theory and Application

Solid Freeform Fabrication for Autonomous Manufacturing of Complete Mobile Robots

Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) allows 3D-printing of arbitrarily shaped structures, directly from computer-aided design (CAD) data. SFF has traditionally focused on printing passive mechanical parts. Advances in this technology and developments in materials science make it feasible to begin the development of a single, compact, robotic SFF system – including a small set of materials which can...

The ARK project: Autonomous mobile robots for known industrial environments

The ARK mobile robot project has designed and implemented a series of mobile robots capable of navigating within industrial environments without relying on arti cial landmarks or beacons. The ARK robots employ a novel sensor, Laser Eye, that combines vision and laser ranging to e ciently locate the robot in a map of its environment. Laser Eye allows self-location of the robot in both walled and...

Development of an Autonomous Friction Gripper for Industrial Robots

Industrial robots become useless without end-effectors that for many instances are in the form of friction grippers. Commonly friction grippers apply frictional forces to different objects on the basis of programmers’ experiences. This puts a limitation on the effectiveness of gripping force that may result in damaging the object. This paper describes various stages of design and development of...

Object Oriented Modeling, Design & Simulation of Industrial Autonomous Mobile Robots

This paper presents a graphical environment which allows modeling, designing and simulating autonomous mobile robots following ISO standard object-oriented paradigm. Modeling is done using a graphical editor that follows the object oriented methodology proposed by Grady Booch, producing an ISO EXPRESS language specification of classes and relations of inheritance and use. This specification is ...