... accelerations of up to 13 G forces in order to achieve 150 picks per minute. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Robots Materials handling Packaging Multi‐head robot Pick and place An innovative robotic pick and place motion design (the FlowBot) was previously created by pack flow...

...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 Now Japanese robot manufacturers also offer multi‐joint vertically articulated and SCARA robots...

... to bin picking opens a new industrial sector (food industry) for 3D handling. Food products Materials handling Robotics Cartoon technology © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 The Food Standards Agency (2009) of the UK defines the food industry as “that from farming and food...

... 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...

... extended manipulability tend to concentrate in a particular region, and the extended manipulability would not decrease rapidly if the operation is started from anywhere near these positions. Radioactive wastes Materials handling Robotics Recently, many reactors in the nuclear power plants...

... and algorithm theory Robotics Materials handling Before formulating the problem, let us briefly recall the two basic sources of kinematic redundancy of a robotic manipulator with respect to a given task. In the case of functional redundancy, J is often a full rank square matrix, i.e. its null...

... this section focuses on manipulators for picking and placing pieces of fruit or vegetable from plants into cases. The manipulators are all traditional, not intrinsically safe, and are listed to obtain a required cycle time and product payload: Robotics Materials handling Agricultural equipment...

... that the system meets project goals. Originality/value Knowing what others have accomplished can provide not only a project plan but can also bring fresh ideas to other projects. Helps designers think outside the box for new ideas. Robotics Packaging Materials handling Prepackaged food and snack...

... unpredictable moving objects in their workcells. Results are of value to practitioners working to expand the capabilities of their systems. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Ian Walker can be contacted at: ianw@ces.clemson.edu Sensors Robotics Image sensors Materials handling...

...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...

... state and the object surface texture (Crowder, 1998 ; Dargahi, 2000 ; Dargahi, 2002). Sensors Robotics Surgery Materials handling © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Stiffness is an important parameter in determining the physical properties of living tissue. Considerable...

... tactile arrays manufactured in a silicon processes (Kane et al., 2000), that control is evolving (Okamura and Cutkosky, 2001), and that system integration is taken to a new level (Butterfaß et al., 2001). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Materials handling...

... Robotics Semiconductors Materials handling During front‐end semiconductor manufacturing, silicon wafers are transported in cassettes via automated guided vehicles (AGVs) or over hoist vehicles (OHVs). The wafer‐handling robot picks up the wafer from the cassette, and then hands it to a pre...

... to our optimality criteria. To evaluate our grasp synthesis methodology, initially 20 revolute and extruded objects were used. Results are presented here for three of these objects chosen to demonstrate the different grasp types. Robotics Visual perception Materials handling Robotic...

... Materials handling Shadow Robot Company has delivered its first robot hand. The customer is Prof. Dr Helge Ritter, a specialist in neuro‐informatics at the University of Bielefeld in Germany. The contract, worth more than ∈100,000, includes about ∈30,000 for a new tactile sensing option that Shadow...

... surgeries. Originality/value We describe our publicly available grasping simulator and review experiments performed with it. The paper demonstrates the usefulness of this system as a tool for grasping research. Robotics Materials handling Simulation The ability to easily add new robot designs...

... teams in Norway, Germany and Switzerland (Apneseth et al., 2002) and demonstrated publicly for the first time in the UK at the Open Days. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Robotics Welding Sensors Materials handling Launched in the first quarter of 2004, ABB's new...

... 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...

... the distribution center. One hundred installations already completed by ABB have proven the benefits of robot mail container handling. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Robots Automation Materials handling Postal services USA Plate 1 IRB 840 ganrty robot palletizes a flat mail tray...