Industrial Robot: Volume 5 Issue 1

Sensors for computer controlled mechanical assembly

S.S.M. Wang, P.M. Will

This paper describes many sensors which are applicable to the requirements of the computer controlled assembly and manufacturing process. Various new types of sensors are…

Automation in industry and its meaning for the engineering insurer

Automation at various levels is becoming accepted by many industries as either an improvemnt of existing procedures or a complete alternative.

Flexible moulding jaws for grippers

I. Schmidt

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…

Automation of arc welding

J.J. Hunter

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…

Object description with a manipulator

G. Gini, M. Gini

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…