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, ...

A general robotic mechanism was presented for in-pipe inspection oflevel pipes with varied diameter or curved pipelines. The robot employed three legs comprised of parallelogram linkages mechanism which enables adapting to various elbow joints in the piping systems. The curvatures in pipeline are the most important constraints in front of the robot through navigation process. To study the adapt...

Recently, various robot off-line programming systems have promoted their own robot data models, resulting in a plethora of robot representation methods and unchangeable data files among CAx and robot off-line programming systems. The current paper represents a STEP-compliant Industrial Robot Data Model (IRDM) for data exchange between CAx systems and robot off-line programming systems. Using th...

Abstract The design of user interfaces (UIs) for assistive robot systems can be improved through the use a set guidelines presented in this article. As an example, article presents two different UI designs manipulation system. We explore considerations from these contrasting UIs. first is referred to as graphical interface (GUI), which operates entirely touchscreen representation state art. sec...

gait rehabilitation using body weight support on a treadmill is a recommended rehabilitation technique for neurological injuries, such as spinal cord injury. in this paper, a new robotic orthosis is presented for treadmill training. in the presented design the criteria such as low inertia of robot components, backdrivability, high safety and degrees of freedom based on human walking are conside...

A survey on different fields of application of robots and robot technology in medicine is presented. Robotics applications will be categorized according to the following areas: stationary laboratory robot systems, autonomous robot transport systems, robot systems for the severely handicapped, robot patient simulators, and robot applications in surgery. It is argued that robots and robot technol...