Today, robotics is an important cornerstone of modern industrial production. Robots are
used for numerous reasons including reliability and continuously high quality of work. The …

Industrial robots should perform complex tasks in the minimum possible cycle time in order
to obtain high productivity. The problem of determining the optimum route of a manipulator's …

Today's industrial manipulators are more and more demanding in terms of productivity. This
goal could be achieved by increasing speed of the robot manipulator and/or by optimizing …

Hexarot is a popular member of the axisymmetric parallel mechanisms family. One of the
challenges in hexarot manipulators is to analyze their manipulability. In this paper, the …

In this paper, a minimum time path planning strategy is proposed for multi points
manufacturing problems in drilling/spot welding tasks. By optimizing the travelling schedule …

This paper presents a Knowledge-Based Intelligent Decision system (KIDs) that takes
information from a vision sensor within the manufacturing process and generates automatic …

This article presents a critical evaluation of swarm intelligence techniques for solving
combinatorial optimization problems. Since, unarguably, the traveling salesman's problem is …

A method for searching the best location of a path in the robot workspace considering the
velocity performance of the robot is presented. After a thorough investigation of the robot …

O processo de soldagem é um método de união de materiais metálicos por meio do
aquecimento até uma temperatura adequada. Esse processo é crucial na manufatura de …

Performance evaluation is an important issue for optimal robot positioning within workcells.
Performance indexes can provide essential contributions to such an evaluation, in particular …