...Muhammet Aydin; Oguz Yakut Purpose The purpose of the study is to design a three-dimensional (3D) triglide parallel robot with a different approach and to control the manufactured robot via sliding mode control method that has not been applied to the robot before. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jie Liu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a robotic tooth brushing simulator mimicking realistic tooth brushing motions, thereby facilitating greater understanding of the generation of realistic tooth brushing motion for optimal design of toothbrushes. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jaime Martínez Verdú; José María Sabater Navarro; Vicente José González Penella; Nicolás Manuel García Aracil; Ángel Miguel López Buendía Purpose Currently, the majority of designed robots are not well‐matched to their applications because designers do not employ a clear and organized design...

... for industrial applications. The purpose of this paper is to present a software‐oriented approach to design optimal architectures of linkage‐driven adaptive (often a.k.a underactuated) fingers with three degrees of freedom. Design/methodology/approach The user of the software presented in this paper can...

... payload, and survive impacts from 3 meters. Design/methodology/approach The platform uses a two‐wheel, two‐motor design that delivers high mobility with low complexity. DROP extends microspine climbing technology from a linear to rotary implementation, providing improved transition ability, increased...

...Bertrand Tondu Purpose So‐called humanoid robots, among a large class of service robots, are designed to work in close harmony with humans. Their anthropomorphism and its consequences have, however, been little studied. The purpose of this paper is to tackle this question by differentiating...

... of improving energy efficiency in statically stable walking machines by comparing two leg, insect and mammal, configurations on the hexapod robotic platform SILO6. Design/methodology/approach Dynamic simulation of this hexapod is used to develop a set of rules that optimize energy expenditure in both...

...J. Norberto Pires; Antonio Gonzalez Rodriguez; Nestor Eduardo Nava Rodriguez; Angel Gaspar Gonzalez Rodriguez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel actuator with adaptable compliance for robotic applications. Design/methodology/approach In order to achieve limb actuation...

...Guido Bugmann; G. Bugmann; J.C. Wolf; P. Robinson Purpose Service robots need to be programmable by their users who are in general unskilled in the art of robot programming. We have explored the use of spoken language for programming robots. Design/methodology/approach Two applications domains...

...Manuel A. Armada; Brett Browning; Jeremy Searock; Paul E. Rybski; Manuela Veloso Purpose To adapt the segway RMP, a dynamically balancing robot base, to build robots capable of playing soccer autonomously. Design/methodology/approach Focuses on the electro‐mechanical mechanisms required...

...Manuel A. Armada; M. Tavakoli; M.R. Zakerzadeh; G.R. Vossoughi; S. Bagheri Purpose Aims to describe design, prototyping and characteristics of a pole climbing/manipulating robot with ability of passing bends and branches of the pole. Design/methodology/approach Introducing a hybrid (parallel...

...Dick Bloss Recent National Manufacturing Week Show in Chicago highlighted many new innovations. Assembly system designers can choose from new low inertia drives, more compact linear and rotary motors, innovative robots and pneumatic actuators along with new modular structural components which were...

...Philippe Poignet; Etienne Dombre; Olivier Merigeaux; François Pierrot; Gilles Duchemin This paper focusses on two active intrinsically safe medical robots – Hippocrate and DERMAROB – designed by the LIRMM laboratory and manufactured by SINTERS. For both of them, we discuss design and control issues...

...Brian R. Hopkins; Robert L. Williams, II The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University has designed, constructed, and controlled a new 6‐dof in‐parallel‐actuated platform, a combination and modification of existing designs. The 6‐PSU platform consists of six legs with a prismatic...

... composite engineering environment (CEE), CDT's composite design software, with Actaplace, Cincinnati Machine's fiber placement programming software. The fiber placement interface exports FiberSIM CEE data and part geometry directly from the user's CAD system to a file written in Cincinnati Machine's fiber...

..., design processing and manufacturing engineering. The book consists of 26 chapters, with the first five chapters addressing the design of composite products. Chapters 6 to 11 discuss different suitable materials for composite products, including fibres, matrix resins, lamina and laminate properties...