espite the tremendous growth in the use of robots during the last D five years, no standard robot performance and calibration tests exist. Currentfy, several commitees formed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) are working on the development of such standards on the intemational level. In the US, several technical committees of the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) in...

Robot programming methodologies are moving from the traditional "Teach" and "O ine" into more human friendly, rapid and exible programming alternatives. In this paper a new Visual Robot Programming Methodology is introduced. The proposed programming methodology physically disconnects the robot programmer from the robot itself. Thus, the operator can move freely around in the production faciliti...

In order to improve the trajectory planning efficiency and accuracy of multi-joint welding robot, according to the movement feature of multi-joint welding robot, the paper analyzed on existing problems in spatial joint planning of the robot, proposed a terminal priority planning method of robot joint planning, based on the study of energy conservation and accuracy of robot terminal. Using this ...

This paper presents the results of the development of an autonomous mobile robot, designed according to some new concepts established in this eld during the last decade. These principles can be found in other work based on the constructivist approach, arti cial life, subsumption architecture and other bottom-up methodologies. These ideas have been applied to the complete robot design, spanning ...

Programming the behavior of multi-robot systems is a challenging task which has a key role in developing effective systems in many application domains. In this paper, we present Petri Net Plans (PNPs), a language based on Petri Nets (PNs), which allows for intuitive and effective robot and multi-robot behavior design. PNPs are very expressive and support a rich set of features that are critical...

Robot manipulators, some thirty years after their commercial introduction, have found widespread application in structured industrial environments, performing , for instance, repetitive tasks in an assembly line. Successful application in unstructured environments however has proven much harder. Yet there are many such tasks where robots would be useful. We present a promising approach to visua...

In this paper we present the current stage of development of EMMA, a small autonomous robot inspired by the Khepera robot widely distributed in the scientific community. EMMA features a modern microcontroller as the central processing unit (CPU) being very efficient in processing sensor and motor signals and a black–white camera as the main sensory system. The test application of EMMA is autono...

The CotsBots are inexpensive and modular mobile robots built entirely from commercial off-the-shelf components. These robots provide a convenient platform on which to investigate algorithms, cooperation, and distributed sensing in large (> 50) robot networks. Each robot is small (13cm x 6.5cm base) and costs under $200. Each is equipped with on-board processing, radio communication, and a base ...

Increase in application of mobile robots and the annual growth of robotics industry, cyber security is essential for robot system to ensure the security of human daily life. Cyber‐ attacks such as fault data injection (FDI) or data scoping critically affects the safety of robot systems especially for those which requires continuous supervision or the monitoring of the system operation. As an...