... is seen as the way forward, with robots performing various tasks instead of people. Meat cutting is one of these tasks. Smart novel solutions, including smart knives, are required, with the smart knife being able to analyse and predict the meat it cuts. This paper aims to review technologies...

...Umair Ali; Wasif Muhammad; Muhammad Jehanzed Irshad; Sajjad Manzoor Purpose Self-localization of an underwater robot using global positioning sensor and other radio positioning systems is not possible, as an alternative onboard sensor-based self-location estimation provides another possible...

... module indeed improved the accuracy and robustness in localization results. Yi Zhang can be contacted at: yi.zhang@scu.edu.cn 25 02 2021 29 04 2021 17 05 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Robotics Sensors...

...Rupeng Yuan; Fuhai Zhang; Yili Fu; Shuguo Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a robust iterative LIDAR-based pose tracking method assisted by modified visual odometer to resist initial value disturbance and locate a robot in the environments with certain occlusion. Design...

... on computers with low computational resources so that it can be deployed on autonomous mobile robots. Design/methodology/approach The method is designed to have a people detection pipeline with a series of operations. Efficient point cloud processing steps with a novel head extraction operation provide...

...Ravinder Singh; Kuldeep Singh Nagla Purpose The purpose of this research is to provide the necessarily and resourceful information regarding range sensors to select the best fit sensor for robust autonomous navigation. Autonomous navigation is an emerging segment in the field of mobile robot...

... re-use rights only Robotics Prosthetic hand Haptic devices Body sensors Bio-mechatronics The human hand has three main functions; gripping, manipulating and exploring (Carrozza et al., 2003) and the fourth aesthetical function of contributing to the form of the normal human...

... for artificial tactile sensing skin for robotic applications. Tactile sensation consists of sensory information at a contact status between humans and the environment. The contact status attracts some physical phenomena. The tactile sensor has to record the sensory information, so the sensor should record...

...) and surveillance. The human motion detection can be categorized into two groups: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Sensors Tracking Electrical faults Robotics Spacecraft 1. using multi‐view video sequences (Khan and Shah, 2009 ; Smith, 2007); and 2. using monocular video...

...Hongbo Ma; Shanchun Wei; Tao Lin; Shanben Chen; Laiping Li Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a kind of low cost measuring system based on binocular vision sensor to detect both the weld pool geometry and root gap simultaneously for robot welding process. Design/methodology...

... quantification of an object's dimensions. These data are used for product quality or for robotic guidance applications. Findings As technology progresses, a snapshot of trends is presented in 2009. Notable amongst these trends are advances in sensory capabilities, computational speed, flexibility...

... and subtle extraction, so as to restructure three‐dimensional information to guide robot move to IWP in the practical welding environment. Findings Experiments showed that mean square errors (MSEs) in X, Y, Z‐directions for both flat butt joint and flat flange are 0.4491...

...David Sanders Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect on completion of mobile‐robot tasks depending on how a human tele‐operator interacts with a sensor system and a mobile‐robot. Design/methodology/approach Interaction is investigated using two mobile‐robot systems...

...Torben Lenau; Christine Connolly Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the scientific developments behind the announcement of a sensor mimicking the human skin. Design/methodology/approach A brief review of the potential applications and design constraints of the robot skin is followed...

...Ahmed Al‐Shamma'a; E. Menegatti; G. Gatto; E. Pagello; Takashi Minato; Hiroshi Ishiguro Purpose Image‐based localisation has been widely investigated in mobile robotics. However, traditional image‐based localisation approaches do not work when the environment appearance changes. The purpose...

...John Billingsley; Richard Bloss Purpose To describe an innovative new technology, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), for creating maps and localization for autonomous robot operations. Design/methodology/approach A series of stereo cameras gather images of a 3D area. A software...

...Paul Fleming; David Lammlein; D. Wilkes; Katherine Fleming; Thomas Bloodworth; George Cook; Al Strauss; David DeLapp; Thomas Lienert; Matthew Bement; Tracie Prater Purpose This paper aims to investigate methods of implementing in‐process fault avoidance in robotic friction stir welding (FSW...

...Céline Filloy; Christine Connolly Purpose This paper sets out to describe hardware and software developments in robotic cameras for wildlife observation. Design/methodology/approach The role of automatic equipment in wildlife observation is introduced, and examples of suitable cameras...

... by a spring behind it, thus, avoiding loose contact between gears. Secondly, the conversion ratio of its tiny gear box increases the resolution of movement, i.e. a five‐step rotation of the stepper motor moves the rigid bar toward the target object by only a distance of 0.02 mm. Elasticity Robotics...

...Stéphane Holé; Sho Yokota; Yasuhiro Ohyama; Hiroshi Hashimoto; Jin‐Hua She; Kuniaki Kawabata; Hisato Kobayashi; Pierre Blazevic Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a sensor system and its measuring strategy. The proposed system is regarded as a total system of a robot and a sensor...