1st Edition

Robot Technology and Applications

By Ulrich Rembold Copyright 1990
    696 Pages
    by CRC Press

    696 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Introduces designers to hardware and software tools necessary for planning, laying out, and building advanced robot-based manufacturing cells surveying the available technology for creating innovative machines suitable to individual needs. Considers assembly system simulation, task-oriented programm

    Preface -- 1 Types of Robots and Their Integration into Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems /Rudiger Dillmann -- 2 Planning of a Robot Integrated Manufacturing Process /Ulrich Rembold -- 3 Knowledge-Based Modeling for Computer-Integrated Manufacturing /Paul Levi -- 4 Simulation: Layout of a Robot Cell /Jim Browne and Subhash Wadhwa -- 5 Sensors and Grippers in Robot Work Cells /Theo Doll -- 6 Programming of the Robot Cell /Klaus Hormann -- 7 Path-Planning Methods for Robot Motion /C. Buckley -- 8 Automatic Error Detection and Recovery /Maria Gini -- 9 Databases for Planning and Manufacturing /Klaus Dittrich, Alfons Kemper, and Peter Lockemann -- 10 Development Toward Autonomous Systems /Volker Turau -- 11 Some Examples of Advanced Robot Systems Compiled and Translated by Ulrich Rembold -- 11.1 Introduction /Ulrich Rembold -- 11.2 The Automatic Assembly of Hoses Using Industrial Robots /Hans-Jiirgen Warnecke and Bruno Frankenhauser -- 11.3 A Dual-Armed Robot System for Assembly Tasks /Klaus Feldmann and Detlef Classe -- 11.4 Vision-Guided Robot Applications /Ulrich Rembold -- 11.5 Mobile Autonomous Robot IPAMAR Performs Free-Ranging AGV Operations /Hans-Jurgen Warnecke and Gerhard Drunk -- Index.

    Biography

    Ulrich Rembold (Author)