As competition grows in the robot field and as more sophisticated applications emerge, it has become necessary to accurately predict robot cycle time. Especially in the area of robot assembly applications, it is necessary to estimate times to balance multi‐arm systems and to economically...

The role of microcomputers and their applications in industrial robotics is illustrated. The special case of an intelligent robot is examined in detail. The design of a microcomputer to be used for automatic spatial ordering of objects is presented, and the experimental results are briefly...

Almost everyone is familiar with the word “robot” in our civilized society. A man‐made man first appeared as Talos, a bronze giant of Creta in the remote past of greek mythology. Since ancient times, the robot has been an object of human imagination. Unexpectedly, the word “robot” was...

A system consisting of an industrial robot and a computer was provided with a camera of high resolution. The camera/computer interface was provided with an electronic window which was made controllable by computer program. A rough raster scan was used for detection of presence and approximate...

In the USSR industrial robots (automatic manipulators) are considered to be one of the most important means of achieving complex industrial automation. They provide a means for human emancipation from dangerous, hard and boring labour and solution to the problem of the more efficient use of...

During the first half on 1978 Rosenlew delivered and installed 44 industrial robots to the new colour picture tube (C.P.T.) plant of Valco Oy at Imatra, Finland. Together with an extensive conveyor system the robots form a highly automated and integrated transfer system. Although most of the...

Some may think that a practical attitude to social implications would be “Automation and robotics are part of ‘progress’. Progress is inevitable. So let's stop all this talk about social implications and get on with the job of developing, designing and installing more robots.”

When using photodiode arrays for optical recognition, the information of a picture is represented in a fixed orthogonal grid. This grid corresponds to the matrix arrangement of the individual photodiodes. In a square matrix of n × n points, the information in the picture can be presented as a...

The free roving robot in the form of a computer controlled industrial truck is now technically possible. The use of small on‐board computers and navigation aids frees the robot from dependence on fixed route marking. Conventional vehicles such as fork lift trucks may be modified for autonomous...

This paper represents a continuation of the earlier work as reported in Refs. More realism has been achieved and an increasing number of basic robots and “building blocks” have been developed. The rapidity with which Robot/ Workplace situations can be analyzed and performances evaluated...