Development Status and Prospects of Industrial Robots
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2024) | Viewed by 245
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Interests: industrial robots; autonomous vehicles; machine vision; machine learning; advanced manufacturing; fuel cells; renewable energy
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Dear Colleagues,
Since General Motors first used an industrial robot in 1961 to handle die castings, robotic technology has become an integral factor in many industrial fields. The integration of robotics in manufacturing improves productivity, accuracy, repeatability, safety, and quality. Industrial robots are vital components in repetitive and tedious tasks, in dangerous environments, or in flexible manufacturing systems. More recent use of industrial, collaborative, and mobile robots in Industry 4.0 has led to a new age of smart manufacturing in which robots are integrated with other digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect high-quality research papers that address the development status and prospects of industrial robots, by covering a range of topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Robots in manufacturing;
- Robots in other industrial fields, in medical fields, or in agriculture;
- Integration of industrial robots with machine vision, sensors, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things;
- Collaborative robots;
- Soft robotics;
- Robot motion and control;
- Human–robot interactions.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Vladimir Gurau
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- industrial robots
- collaborative robots
- mobile robots
- robot motion and control
- human–robot interaction
- robot networking
- robots in Industry 4.0
- soft robotics
- robot models
- robot kinematics and dynamics
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