The AGV (automated guided vehicle) was introduced in UK in 1953 for transporting. But nowadays, due to their high efficiency, flexibility, reliability, safety and system scalability, they are used in various application in industries. In brief, the AGV robot is a system which typically made up of vehicle chassis, embedded controller, motors, drivers, navigation and collision avoidance sensors, ...

Simulation and teleoperation tools offer many advantages for the training or learning of technological subjects, such as flexibility in time-tables and student access to expensive and limited equipment. In this paper, we present a new system for simulating and teleoperating robot arms through the Internet, which allows many users to simulate and test positioning commands for a robot by means of...

In this paper, the concept of human-robot-team is presented. Because of its high flexibility and adaptability, the human-robot cooperation is expected to have a wide range of applications in uncertain environments, not only in future construction and manufacturing industries but also in service branches. A multi-agent control architecture gives an appropriate frame for the flexibility of the hu...

To improve the operation and the flexibility of the robot hand, in this paper we presented a new type pneumatic flexible robot hand based on the pneumatic artificial muscles and active flexible bending joints which developed in the previous research. The robot hand is imposed of five three-joint fingers; the middle finger is on the datum axis with the other four fingers orthogonal and symmetric...

This paper suggests and employs a method for reducing vibrations at the tip of a robot. The vibrations, caused by structural flexibility, are detected using accelerometers. The robot control system consists of two complementary sub-systems: a nominal motion controller and a vibration compensator. The former one realizes joint motions in accordance with a prescribed tip trajectory. The latter on...

The first part of the paper describes different concepts for micro production. The potential of miniaturised size adapted robots is pointed out based on their flexibility. Flexibility thereby is discussed in a detailed way that leads to two different ways of robot integration. The second part of the paper deals with the desktop factory concept. Beginning with a short state of the art for deskto...

In this paper, a surface sculpturing system based on 8-axis robot is proposed, the CAD/CAM software and tool path generation algorithm for this sculpturing system are presented. The 8-axis robot is composed of a 6-axis manipulator and a 2-axis worktable, it carves block of polystyrene foams by heated cutting tools. Multi-DOF (Degree of Freedom) robot benefits from the faster fashion than tradit...

We propose a unified mathematical framework for local navigation and position localization of a mobile robot which is based on the use of flexibility maps of the environment. Flexibility maps contain both the current knowledge of the robot about the positions of objects as well as the information required to calculate its future path. The major benefit of our approach is that several navigation...

Advanced manufacturing technologies, and programmable machines such as industrial robots, are used to increase productivity and quality for competitiveness on a global market. Development of increasingly flexible manufacturing systems has resulted in an increasing importance of software aspects, both on a system level and for efficient interaction with human operators. Trends toward providing c...