...Haolong Wang; Tiejun Li; Xiaohui Jia; Shuo Xu; Jinyue Liu Purpose This study aims to address the issues of low positioning accuracy in industrial robot end-effectors and the high costs as-sociated with traditional calibration methods, proposing a novel robot self-calibration approach based...

...Xiaoyu Lu; Wei Tian; Xingdao Lu; Bo Li; Wenhe Liao Purpose This study aims to propose a calibration method to enhance the positioning accuracy in dual-robot collaborative operations, aiming to address the challenge of drilling hole spacing errors in spacecraft core cabin brackets that require...

...Mohamed Slamani; Hocine Makri; Aissa Boudilmi; Ilian A. Bonev; Jean-Francois Chatelain Purpose This research paper aims to optimize the calibration process for an ABB IRB 120 robot, specifically for robotic orbital milling applications, by introducing and validating the use of the observability...

...Zixin Mu; Zhenhua Cai; Chunnian Zeng; Zifan Li; Xufeng Liang; Fan Yang; Tingyang Chen; Shujuan Dong; Chunming Deng; Shaopeng Niu Purpose During the process of the robotic grinding and polishing operations on aero-engine blades, the key problem of calibration error lies in fixture error and uneven...

...Yunfei Fan; Yilian Zhang; Huang Jie; Tang Yue; Qingzhen Bi; Yuhan Wang Purpose This paper aims to propose a novel model and calibration method to improve the absolute positioning accuracy of a robotic drilling system with secondary encoders and additional axis. Design/methodology/approach...

...Yanwu Zhai; Haibo Feng; Yili Fu Purpose This paper aims to present a pipeline to progressively deal with the online external parameter calibration and estimator initialization of the Stereo-inertial measurement unit (IMU) system, which does not require any prior information and is suitable...

...Bence Tipary; Ferenc Gábor Erdős Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel measurement technique and a modelless calibration method for improving the positioning accuracy of a three-axis parallel kinematic machine (PKM). The aim is to present a low-cost calibration alternative...

...Jinlei Zhuang; Ruifeng Li; Chuqing Cao; Yunfeng Gao; Ke Wang; Feiyang Wang Purpose This paper aims to propose a measurement principle and a calibration method of measurement system integrated with serial robot and 3D camera to identify its parameters conveniently and achieve high measurement...

... assembly of aircraft large component (ALC), the posture alignment accuracy of ALC is difficult to be guaranteed, and the posture adjustment stress is easy to be generated. Aiming at these problems, this paper aims to propose a calibration method of redundant actuated parallel mechanism (RAPM) for posture...

.../approach In this work, a calibration procedure is proposed to evaluate this transformation. The method does not require a predefined marker (commonly used despite its numerous disadvantages), as it uses planar features in the point acquired clouds. Findings Qualitative inspections show...

...Dianjin Zhang; Guangyu Zhang; Longqiu Li Purpose This paper aims to provide a simple and flexible calibration method of parallel manipulators for improving the position accuracy only using partial pose information. Design/methodology/approach The overall idea of this method is to use BP neural...

... of position and posture of the bracket type posture alignment mechanism has a great influence on the operation effect of the machine. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out the kinematic calibration. Design/methodology/approach Based on analysis of elastic deformation of the bracket and geometric errors...

...Chen Shen; Youping Chen; Bing Chen; Yu Qiao Purpose This paper aims to propose a novel robot kinematic calibration method based on the common perpendicular line (CPL) model to improve the absolute accuracy of industrial robots. Design/methodology/approach The deviation between the nominal...

.... Mostly, robot calibration approaches are used for the improvement of the pose accuracy. Such approaches however require a profound understanding of the determining effects. This paper aims to provide a non-destructive analysis method for the identification and characterisation of non-geometric accuracy...

...Haixia Wang; Xiao Lu; Zhanyi Hu; Yuxia Li Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a fully automatic calibration method for hand-eye serial robot system is presented in this paper. The so-called “fully automatic” is meant to calibrate the robot body, the hand-eye relation, and the used...

...Hui Pan; Na Li Wang; Yin Shi Qin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a method that calibrates the hand-eye relationship for eye-to-hand configuration and afterwards a rectification to improve the accuracy of general calibration. Design/methodology/approach – The hand-eye...

...Wang Zhenhua; Xu Hui; Chen Guodong; Sun Rongchuan; Lining Sun Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a distance accuracy-based industrial robot kinematic calibration model. Nowadays, the repeatability of the industrial robot is high, while the absolute positioning accuracy and distance...

...Mehdi Dehghani; Mahdi Ahmadi; Alireza Khayatian; Mohamad Eghtesad; Mehran Yazdi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a vision-based method for the kinematic calibration of a six-degrees-of-freedom parallel robot named Hexa using only one Universal Serial Bus (USB) camera and a chess...

...Wei Wang; Gang Wang; Chao Yun Purpose – Calibrating kinematic parameters is one of the efficient ways to improve the robot's positioning accuracy. A method based on the product-of-exponential (POE) formula to calibrate the kinematic parameters of serial industrial robots is proposed. The paper...

...Xiaoxiao Zhu; Qixin Cao Purpose The purpose of the present paper is to propose a full model‐based method for distance‐mapping calibration for the non‐SVP (non‐single viewpoint) catadioptric camera of the soccer robot. The method should be easy to operate, efficient, accurate, and scalable to fit...