Problems in the application of industrial robots for the handling of workpieces in small series production and in assembly arise from the gripper's structure among other things. The differences in form and weight of the workpieces make it impossible in most cases to apply a single traditional...

Welding is becoming increasingly unacceptable as a manual job and this is causing an acceleration in the trend towards automation. This paper briefly reviews some recent efforts at automating welding processes, including a program in the UK by the National Engineering Laboratory and the Welding...

This paper presents an interactive system, called POINTY. The goal of this system is to solve problems encountered when a high‐level manipulator lanaguage, as AL, is employed. Those problems are related to the necessity of supplying any manipulation program with a complete description of the...

The throughput of a manipulation process depends upon the arm's speed of operation, but many existing controllers provide accurate trajectory control only at low or moderate velocities. We propose a control method that explicitly compensates for configuration‐dependent gravity, acceleration,...

In the paper is presented the practical application of the manipulator automatic two‐level control concept. Anthropomorphic configuration of the system was chosen, consisting of the minimal configuration, which solves the task of attaining the position and the gripper, which has to satisfy...

In this report, accounts will be presented on the experience obtained from approximately 100 practical applications of industrial robots. The industrial robots used derive partly from the company's own production as well as from other domestic and foreign robot manufacturers.

It is shown that location of objects (in the field of vision of “robot's eye”) with simple centre of gravity method (proposed by some authors) leads to severe errors in positioning. In the paper detailed quantitative analysis of two main types of these errors is carried out, as well as some...

The work places in the forging factories are known to be particularly tiresome for the operators who have to work there. The noise, the heat, the weight of the parts to be handled, the place unctuosity are all elements which make the work hard and uncomfortable with a bad environment for the...

The definition of Industrial Handling which was established years ago is still valid:

The first sensing robots of the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute were designed in 1968. The next to be devised was an integral two‐hands robot, with ASVT.M‐6000 and Minsk‐32 computers serving as a hardware basis for the robot control systems. This robot permitted to experimentally master...