ABSTRACT The World Robot Summit (WRS) is a robotic 'challenge and
exposition'organized by the Japanese government to accelerate social implementation …

The manufacturing industry is seeing an increase in demand for more custom-made, low-
volume production. This type of production is rarely automated and is to a large extent still …

To support shifting to high mix/low volume production, manufacturers in high wage countries
aim for robotizing their production operations–with a special focus on the late production …

This paper demonstrates that “completely-jigless” assembly of a model product that requires
fitting accuracy at the level of industrial products is possible by using a universal hand with …

Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) is about creating an intelligent network of machines to handle
readjustment in the production system and increase productivity effectiveness …

In this paper, we present a structured approach to selecting and designing a set of grippers
for an assembly task. Compared to current experience-based gripper design method, our …

This work presents a Digital Twin (DT) architecture for smart production cells tested on a
case of automated drone assembly. In this Industry 4.0 setting each step of the robotic …

To improve the accuracy of the grasping detection, this paper proposes a novel detector with
batch normalization masked evaluation model. It is designed with a two-layer sparse …

Feeding parts in automated manufacturing processes lack the adaptation flexibility to rapid
production changes, which are typical for small to medium enterprises. In this paper we …

In this work, we introduce a web-based system connected to a simulation framework that can
be used to facilitate the design of industrial fingers. We provide an overview of the state of …