... (blue) and back again. The picking and placing heads' z‐axis motion is performed by the up and down linear slide (pink). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Robots Materials handling Packaging Multi‐head robot Pick and place An innovative robotic pick and place...

...Richard Bloss Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the Automate Show (robots and vision) and the Promat Show (material handling) that ran jointly in Chicago, with emphasis on the new robot innovations and applications on display. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth interviews...

... industry. Yoshihiro Kusuda can be contacted at: kusuda_itnl@ybb.ne.jp © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Japan Food industry Trade fairs Robotics Materials handling The shipment amount of the Japanese robotic industry finally came back to the pre‐Lehman‐shock level...

... or process further. The pose estimation, that gives information about the position, orientation, and that is saved in the transformation matrix, needs to be identified by sensors. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Food products Materials handling Robotics Cartoon technology...

... as a flexible material handling system (MHS) in dynamic industrial environments. Design/methodology/approach Introduces the entire on‐board control system including hardware and software designs. The sensory system consists of a laser navigation system for localisation and a security laser scanner...

... and rotating the waste in order to continue the measuring operation. Shigeru Aomura can be  contacted at:   aomura‐shigeru@c.metro‐u.ac.jp © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Radioactive wastes Materials handling Robotics Recently, many reactors in the nuclear power plants...

... and algorithm theory Robotics Materials handling The inverse kinematics of serial robotic manipulators has been in‐depth studied for decades at both displacement and velocity levels. It is well known that the former is highly non‐linear and deserve dedicated solution procedures, while the latter...

... times. For this paper, only the time where the manipulator is moving from one point to another, without picking or dropping, is important. Robotics Materials handling Agricultural equipment Robotic manipulators used in industrial applications are typically designed to be as fast...

... Materials handling Prepackaged food and snack items can be a problem to get from the production line where the product is processed, bagged or boxed into suitable shipping containers in an efficient manner. Soft flexible pouches of nuts or chips have no “sides” are hard to grip with a fingered gripper...

...Joe F. Engelberger; Richard Bloss Purpose To report on the design and development of a robotic palletizing system that handles both pails of lubricant as well as cardboard cartons or cases. Design/methodology/approach The customer selected a material‐handling expert to design and install...

... of unexpected motions during the delay can be handled by the system. Ian Walker can be contacted at: ianw@ces.clemson.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Sensors Robotics Image sensors Materials handling Plate 2 Two‐dimensional air conveyor system...

... the status of contact, such as presence or absence of an object in contact with the sensor, to a thorough mapping or imaging of the tactile state and the object surface texture (Crowder, 1998 ; Dargahi, 2000 ; Dargahi, 2002). Sensors Robotics Surgery Materials handling © Emerald Group...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Visual perception Materials handling Our methodology for synthesising grasps from an object model includes three principal phases illustrated in Figure 4 for a simple object. In the first phase, the profile lines are conditioned...

... Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Materials handling Simulation A basic body consists of a pointer to its geometry, a material specification, a list of contacts, and a transform that specifies the body's pose relative to the world coordinate system. The body geometry is read...

... develop fixture design criteria and a simple compensate algorithm to satisfy calibration requirements. We also verify our approach by a physical example. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Semiconductors Materials handling During front‐end semiconductor manufacturing...

..., and data is presented over a high‐speed 6‐wire serial connection,” Walker says. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Materials handling Shadow Robot Company has delivered its first robot hand. The customer is Prof. Dr Helge Ritter, a specialist in neuro‐informatics...

... in grasping and manipulation. While better hardware of course is desirable, the major challenges seem to lie in the development and application of grasping and manipulation algorithms. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Materials handling Sensors To pour and bring a glass...

... for the first time in the UK at the Open Days. Robotics Welding Sensors Materials handling Launched in the first quarter of 2004, ABB's new IRC5 robot controller has been both a success and a “headache” for the company. On the one hand ABB sold virtually all of its 2004 production to just one...

... different flat materials. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Handling Materials handling Robots In order to select an appropriate end‐effector for the handling of different products, several parameters, conditions and environmental effects must be taken into consideration. These include...

... Materials handling Postal services USA Robots are delivering the mail but they are not coming to your door and ringing twice, at least not yet. The robots are working behind the scenes in the major mail distribution centers. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is applying robots to handle...