Describes a European project to develop vision‐based, closed‐loop robot control technology to facilitate assembly tasks in the automotive industry. Looks particularly at the problem of placing a sunroof on a car body accurately.

ProMES, a method for the measurement and feedback of performance data is related to the concepts of goal setting and feedback (Locke, 1991; Locke and Latham, 1990), and to the concept of self‐control (Bandura, 1991). The result is a model for self‐management: the “accepted control loop”....

Jointly determines the optimal level to which the mean of a critical variable should be set up, and the optimal number of repetitions until recalibration, for the case where the variable is distributed normally, the mean changes linearly with the number of repetitions, and the revenue per...