Special Issue on Recent Advancements on Industrial Robot Technology
In recent years, the assembly cells are often introduced in manufacturing plants. Although introducing robots to an assembly cell is very difficult and challenging, recent advancement on industrial robot technology gradually has been enabling industrial robots to perform difficult process of product manufacturing. Such difficult process includes product assembly, parts supply, and product inspection. This special issue attempts to showcase state-of-the-art studies on industrial robot technology. Emphasis has been given to ‘novel algorithms and theories’ and ‘novel techniques on application and system integration.’
In the first paper, we invited Dr. Kodaira to review the history on the industrial robot technology and to discuss its expected innovation. In addition to the review paper, we have included 10 original papers. Among them, four papers are on the motion optimization of an industrial manipulator. Two papers are on motion control of an industrial manipulator. Two papers are on end-effector mechanism. One paper is on motion planning of a dual-arm hand-over task. One paper is on pose estimation by using a vision sensor. We believe that the papers published in this special issue cover the important topics of current industrial robot technology.
The guest editors would like to express their deepest thanks to the editorial office of Advanced Robotics journal and especially to Mrs Noriko Watanabe for their substantial support.
Osaka University/National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Katja Mombaur
University of Heiderberg, Germany
Takayuki Matsuno
Okayama University, Japan
Dinesh Manocha
UNC-Chapel Hill, USA