Industrial Robot: Volume 24 Issue 2
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
Industrial mobile robots: the future
G.S. VirkPresents the state‐of‐the‐art in industrial mobile robotics within Europe and how the future industrial requirements can best be satisfied. States that the focus for the…
Robots and landmines
James TrevelyanThere is a widespread belief that the global land‐mine problem can be solved using a combination of advanced robotics, sophisticated sensors and powerful computing devices. Recent…
Mobile robots: big benefits for US military
Joanne PranskyDescribes two types of mobile robots designed for the US military. One is the mobile detection assessment response system (MDARS), which is an automated robotic security and…
Robot sees the way to cut costs at Kent Meters
Brian W. RooksKent Meters is the leader in the manufacture of residential and bulk flow water meters, with 20 production operations in five continents producing some seven million meters…
Hazardous climb to industrial recognition
Jack HollingumReviews the highlights of a two‐day European colloquium on information technology for climbing and walking robots held at the University of Portsmouth, UK, with progress reports…
Atlas ‐ road robot
Graham DaltonStates that the Atlas navigation system is the fruit of four years’ work by a UK Robotics development team which, in conjunction with European partners, has been working on an…
Powder painting of truck cabs ‐ helping to preserve the environment
Erland JosefssonExplains how, four years ago, Scania, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses, decided to invest in a more environmentally friendly method for painting truck…
Robots help out with bricks
Anna KochanDescribes one of the first robotic installations in a brickworks in Europe, now operating in the UK at the Warnham factory of Ibstock Building Products in Horsham. Explains how…
The Sprite aerial robot
Reg G. AustinExplains the raison d’être of the Sprite aerial robot and describes the system engineering, including a description of a range of interchangeable payloads to suit various mission…
Climbing, walking and intervention robots
Manuel Armada, Pablo Gonzalez de SantosExplains how the Automatic Control Department of the Instituto de Automatica Industrial (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain has been developing robots for over 15 years. This activity began…
Vehicles and robots for humanitarian demining
J.‐D. NicoudOutlines sustainable humanitarian demining procedures and some of the breaching and post‐conflict demining equipment currently in use. Explains that several projects have proposed…
Robots in space into the 21st century
C.R. Weisbin, D. Lavery, G. RodriguezDescribes the technological developments which are establishing the foundation for an exciting era of in situ exploration missions to planets, comets and asteroids with advanced…
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0143-991xOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou