Analysis of more than 20 projects for clustering small and medium enterprises and supporting organizations in different Latin American countries has uncovered a number of barriers, activities, structures, strategies, policies and procedures that impact competitiveness. These factors mean that there are different appropriate industrial cluster and industrial business models appropriate for the s...

Abstract: To avoid the singularities of an image-based visual control of an industrial robot (Mitsubishi PA-10), a simple and efficient control law which combines the information of two cameras in a cooperative way has been developed and tested. One of this cameras is rigidly mounted on the robot end-effector (eye-in-hand configuration) and the other one observes the robot within its workspace ...

Cooperation between a small industrial robot and human operator is studied in this paper. To ensure safe human-robot interaction several safety features should be introduced into the industrial cell. Despite all the precautions undertaken the collision between robot and man can occur. In present study impact assessments of point robot end-effector with passive mechanical arm were carried out. T...

This paper presents a robot control system using force control on a redundant industrial robot. The control system is based upon an active force feedback system using six axes force sensor attached to the robot’s end effector. The redundancy is used to explore a model for singularity avoidance based on different states of redundancy. The system is implemented and tested experimentally for one o...

We present a parallel control architecture for industrial robot cells. It is based on closed functional components arranged in a flat communication hierarchy. The components may be executed by different processing elements, and each component itself may run on multiple processing elements. The system is driven by the instructions of a central cell control component. We set up necessary requirem...

Promoting synergy creation of technology in industrial cluster is the key of advancing innovation ability and technology level. The technology innovation of industrial cluster is synergy innovation process, according to the analysis for activities of innovation. And the paper explains the synergy process of cluster innovation activities. The process includes: technological decision and concept ...

In spite of the increasing concern on the role of technological change and innovation as a key factor of sustainability, environmental economics has paid little attention to the understanding of environmental innovation. Until recently, scholars working in environmental economics consider environmental innovation as induced by regulation. Within this perspective, one of the main research questi...

Every industrial robot has a specific kinematics, which often results in anisotropic performance within its workspace in terms of force and velocity. A cable-driven system can be used to improve the force manipulability of a robot by introducing an actuation redundancy. Such system acts directly on the robot end-effector increasing its flexibility of use in applications where a higher and more ...

This paper presents a recognition method for ordering an industrial robot using isolated words, and also a method of speaker recognition, in case an order may be amended only by a particular person. Finally, some results of the simulation are presented. Key-Words: Voice processing, Speech recognition, Speaker recognition, Industrial robot