Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) plays a major role in quality and flexibility improvements in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Advanced manufacturing technologies provide a great potential for improving manufacturing performance to compete in the global markets. Proper decision making in pre-implement and implementation of Robot technology as one of the types of AMT plays an importa...

Environment mapping is considered an essential skill for a mobile robot in order to actually reach autonomy [1]. The robotic mapping can be defined as the process of acquiring a spatial model of the environment through sensory information. The environment map allows mobile robots to interact coherently with objects and people in this environment. The robot can safely navigate, identify surround...

An inchworm-like robot is a mobile robot that imitates the locomotion pattern of a natural inchworm. Inchworm or snake like robots can crawl or move in highly constrained environment such as maintenance conduit for buildings and factories, and human intestines and blood vessels. In this paper, the development a planar inchworm robot based on the basic inchworm motion is presented. The motion is...

In this paper, to improve the efficiency of welding and user convenience in the shipbuilding industry, a PC-based off-line programming (OLP) technique and the development of a robot transfer unit are presented. The developed OLP system is capable of not only robot motion simulations but also automatic generations of a series of robot programs. The strength of the developed OLP system lies in it...

A major challenge in deploying service robots into the real world is to design a framework that provides effective, long-term interactions with people. This includes interacting with people in a natural way, dealing with multiple users, and being continually aware of the surroundings. This paper proposes a robot control architecture that addresses these issues. First, it enables the representat...

This paper presents trajectory tracking based on a sliding mode controller for the Puma robot manipulator. is most commonly used in industries; it has great flexibility compared to other manipulators like SCARA, which decreases its precision. In order increase precision Sliding Lyapunov stability approach this work. The first motion control block Controller designed and link with Robot manipula...

Advances in robotics research bring robots closer to real world applications. Although robots have become increasingly capable, productive interaction is still restricted to specialists in the field. In this paper, we propose an interactive architecture, based on visual capabilities, which allows robots to interact with people in a natural way, to deal with multiple users, and to be constantly ...

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a widely-used technique for programming robot behavior. Despite its flexibility and applicability to a wide range of tasks, LfD is most typically used to learn non-social behaviors. To our knowledge, no prior work has learned robot behavior from demonstration for interaction that is primarily social in nature. In this paper, we conjecture that LfD can be use...

FIRA robot soccer is strongly affected by the central vision system because of the head mounted camera. A single camera implies a central image processing system, which conflicts with the demands on autonomous acting of the individual robots. Even so this approach will continue to be used in the near future due to the limitations of the robot hardware. This paper presents a flexible and robust ...

In this paper, to improve the efficiency of welding and user convenience in the shipbuilding industry, a PC-based off-line programming (OLP) technique and the development of a robot transfer unit are presented. The developed OLP system is capable of not only robot motion simulations but also automatic generations of a series of robot programs. The strength of the developed OLP system lies in it...