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Many factors affect the absolute positioning accuracy and distance accuracy, and the calibration method of the industrial robot is an important factor. When the traditional calibration methods are applied on the industrial robot, the accumulative error will be involved according to the transformation between the measurement coordinate and the robot base coordinate.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 In this manuscript, a distance accuracy-based industrial robot kinematic calibration model is proposed. First, a simplified kinematic model of the robot by using the modified Denavit\u2013Hartenberg (MDH) method is introduced, then the proposed distance error-based calibration model is presented; the experiment is set up in the next section.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The experimental results show that the proposed calibration model based on MDH and distance error can improve the distance accuracy and absolute position accuracy dramatically.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The proposed calibration model based on MDH and distance error can improve the distance accuracy and absolute position accuracy dramatically.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/ir-04-2014-0319","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,9,22]],"date-time":"2014-09-22T06:09:10Z","timestamp":1411366150000},"page":"439-446","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["A distance error based industrial robot kinematic calibration method"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"41","author":[{"given":"Wang","family":"Zhenhua","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Xu","family":"Hui","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Chen","family":"Guodong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sun","family":"Rongchuan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Lining","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2020123000484126500_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Andreff, N. , Renaud, P. , Martinet, P. and Pierrot, F. 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