A pneumatic‐fluidic system has been designed and built, with the purpose to recognize the side orientation of pieces.

The evolvement of batch manufacturing systems from groups of linked, tape operated NC machine tools to computer controlled integrated systems is described. In the span of a few years, computerized integrated systems have appeared in most major industrial countries and are being built at...

This thesis concerns with a computer‐controlled assembly system using a robot. The system performs simple assemblies, determines the three dimensional position and orientation of parts which are supplied one by one, grasps the part from its respective appropriate direction, and inserts it into...

Second to Japan, the European and Scandinavian industrial complexes are the most aggressive users of industrial robots. Currently, manufacturers in these countries are absorbing 40% of Unimation's output. Most of these sales are to automobile manufacturers and their suppliers.

This paper presents an analysis of the problem of Assembly Facility Assignment in a Mixed Model Assembly Line. Poisson arrivals and exponential service time distribution have been assumed. On the basis of the analysis presented it is possible to choose a particular facility on economic...

For the purpose of controlling industrial robots attached to various types of technological equipment the configuration structures and unification principles were investigated and the unified controlling systems of positional and cyclic type developed.

The fact that you are reading this article indicates that you have optical sensors (eyes). Pick up a pencil from your desk. You will almost certainly locate it visually, guiding your hand towards it by employing visual feedback. Is the tip of the pencil broken? Again, you will probably use...

The compliant hand robot was developed for metal stamping press feeding at Fisher and Paykel Ltd., home appliance manufacturer, New Zealand.

Using an industrial assembly robot to manipulate objects of significantly differing shapes is practically impossible without a universal prehension organ. Robot grippers of great simplicity and dependability are too specific to one particular geometry, whereas existing, complicated grippers,...

A new phase of automation has already started in the Federal Republic of Germany: industrial robots are ousting men from dangerous work places.