Approaches, such as Cloud Robotics, Robot-as-a-Service, merged Internet of Things and robotics, and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in production, show that the industrial robotics domain experiences a paradigm shift that increasingly links robots in real-life factories with virtual reality. However, despite the growing body of research to date, though insightful, the paradigm shift to CPS in indu...

ABSTRACT Formulating the suitable mathematical models and deriving the efficient algorithms for a robot kinematics mechanism are very crucial for analyzing the behavior of industrial robot manipulators. Direct kinematics that determines the Cartesian position and orientation of the end-effector for the specified values of joint parameters is generally performed using homogenous transforms. In t...

| In this paper the problem of designing a force controller for industrial robots with a positional interface is addressed. An automatic design procedure to compute the structure and the parameters of the controller is devised, to provide a useful tool for rapid and robust setup of force control at industrial level. The synthesis of the force controller simply requires technology parameters pro...

This paper introduces the development of prototype robot based thermography measuring system and a new concept for higher robot position accuracy for industrial applications. The developed thermography system is mounted at the end-effector of an industrial robot. Furthermore, a platform for offline programming is introduced, which enables the identification of measurement positions and the opti...

The Humanoid Robotics Project of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan realized that biped humanoid robots can perform manual labour. The project developed humanoid robot platforms, consisting of humanoid robot hardware and a package of fundamental software, and explored applications of humanoid robots on them. The applications include maintenance tasks of industrial plants, tele...

The paper describes the design of an offline path correction system for industrial robots using laser stripe sensors. Our approach offers high flexibility because of the systems ability to self-calibrate and a high speed measurement because of the usage of approximate positioning of the robot. The paper further reviews the advantages and disadvantages of online and offline path correction syste...

Most of the interfaces which are designed to control or program industrial robots are complex and require special training for the user and the programmer. This complexity alongside the changing environment of small medium enterprises (SMEs) has lead to absence of robots from SMEs. The costs of (re)programming the robots and (re)training the robot users exceed initial costs of installation and ...

A series of mechanical properties and disturbances limit the accuracy achievable in robotic applications. External control of the end effector position is commonly known as being an appropriate mean to increase accuracy. This paper presents an approach for position control of industrial robots using the pass-through between an industrial CNC and servomotors. A CNC-controlled robot is used toget...

An IRB6620 industrial robot from ABB Co. Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland) is used as a processing platform for optical processing, and computer-controlled optical surfacing is applied as a key technology. The function of each coordinate system of the robot in processing is reviewed, as well as the relationship of each coordinate system and coordinate transformation. An algorithm governing coordinate ...