.... Naoki Saito can be contacted at: naoki_saito@akita‐pu.ac.jp © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Artificial organs Muscles Pneumatic equipment Artificial muscle Mechanical equilibrium model Position control Antagonistic drive system Recently, many studies of robot...

... technologies. These are expected to play a vital role in future robot generations. Robert Bogue can be contacted at: robbogue@aol.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Robots Polymers Alloys Muscles Pneumatic equipment Soft gripping Artificial muscles Pneumatics Soft robotics...

... the slaughter line. Originality/value This paper presents a new complete salmonid slaughter line that has reduced the need for manual labor in salmonid slaughtering plants. Actuators Slaughtering Pneumatic equipment Fisheries The system captures 3D images by means of a line‐scan laser...

... et al., 1995, 2001). Pneumatic equipment Muscles Robotics Although the history of pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) – PAM (titles used in practice: air muscle, fluidic muscle, pneumatic muscle actuator, fluid actuator, fluid‐driven tension actuator, axially contractible...

... . Caihua Xiong can be contacted at: chxiong@mail.hust.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Robotics Rehabilitation Artificial limbs Muscles Actuators Pneumatic equipment The well‐known proportional‐integral‐derivative (PID) controller with a feedback and feedforward is used...

... Pneumatic equipment Abrasives © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 A coordination control method is developed by decomposing the robotic deburring system into two subsystems; the robotic arm and the active deburring tool. The two subsystems differ substantially in their task assignments...

... performance improvements in serpentine robots. Robotics Pneumatic equipment Adaptability Many industrial inspection tasks exist, in which sensors or probes must be transported to hard‐to‐reach areas, for example to take measurements, perform visual inspections, or to conduct surveillance. Some...