Industrial Robot: Volume 6 Issue 2

Social implications of automation

P. Senker

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…

Recognition of angular orientation of objects with the help of optical sensors

P. Martini, G. Nehr

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…

Mobile robots for industrial use

M.H.E. Larcombe

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…

Robot application simulation

W.B. Heginbotham, M. Dooner, K. Case

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…

A compliant device for inserting a peg in a hole

H. McCallion, G.R. Johnson, D.T. Pham

The insertion of a peg in a hole is the final phase in the assembly of a peg and a block with a hole. This paper briefly analyses the physical interaction between these two…