Intelligent assembly systems /

This book deals with a key area of industrial robotics - the automation of small batch assembly. Assembly imparts enormous added value but turns out to be extraordinarily difficult to automate. The work presented here, all from the Centre for Intelligent Systems at the University of Wales, Aberystwy...

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Corporate Authors: World Scientific Firm
Group Author: Lee, Mark H; Rowland, J. J
Published: World Scientific Pub. Co.,
Publisher Address: Singapore :
Publication Dates: 1995.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: World Scientific series in robotics and intelligent systems ; v. 12
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Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2963#t=toc
Summary: This book deals with a key area of industrial robotics - the automation of small batch assembly. Assembly imparts enormous added value but turns out to be extraordinarily difficult to automate. The work presented here, all from the Centre for Intelligent Systems at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, addresses this issue and shows ways in which the difficulties may be reduced through systematic architectural designs and specific structures for interfacing and controlling sensory-actuation systems. The book develops three main themes: a task-centred approach to robotic assembly, explicit re
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxii,239pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9789812812490
Index Number: TS191
CLC: TP278
Contents: 1. Knowledge-based robot supervision / D.P. Barnes and N.W. Hardy -- 2. Software tools for robot supervisors / C.H. Orgill -- 3. Qualitative reasoning for diagnosis of mechanical systems / C.J. Price -- 4. Tactile sensing for automation / H.R. Nicholls -- 5. Sensing and actuation for flexible assembly / J.J. Rowland and H.R. Nicholls -- 6. Supervisory and sensing software for an integrated flexible assembly machine / N.W. Hardy, J.J. Rowland and H.R. Nicholls -- 7. Towards a theory of sensory robotics / J.J. Pinkava.