CHAPTERS

1 BASICS

BASICS OF ROBOTICS By William R.Tanner Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,1977

THE TIME MAY SOON ARRIVE TO PUTA ROBOT IN YOUR SHOP By Jake Koekebakker Reprinted from Canadian Machinery and Metalworking,January,1980

ROBOTS ARE MOLDING A NEW IMAGE—PART Ⅰ By Norbert G.Seman Reprinted from Foundry Management and Technology,May,1979

ROBOTS ARE MOLDING A NEW IMAGE—PART Ⅱ By Norbert G.Seman Reprinted from Foundry Management and Technology,June,1979

OFF-THE-SHELF AUTOMATION Reprinted from Automation,May,1976,Copyright Penton/IPC 1976

2 IMPLEMENTATION

A USER'S GUIDE TO ROBOT APPLICATIONS By William R.Tanner Presented at the First North American Industrial Robot Conference,October,1976

VERN'S RULES OF THUMB WHEN APPLYING ROBOTS By Vernon E.Estes Reprinted from Tooling ＆ Production,August,1979

CAN I USE A ROBOT? By William R.Tanner Reprinted from Robotics Today,Spring,1980

ROBOTS ARE EASY...IT'S EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S HARD By David T.Cousineau Presented at the Robots Ⅴ Conference,October,1980

ANALYSIS OF FIRST UTD INSTALLATION FAILURES By Gennaro C.Macri Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,1977

ROBOT INTERFACE:SWITCH CLOSURE AND BEYOND By Brian J.Resnick Presented at the Robots Ⅲ Conference,November,1978

ROBOT DECISION MAKING By H.Randolph Holt Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,1977

SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS By Dr.-Ing H.Worn Presented at the Robots Ⅴ Conference,October,1980

SAFETY,TRAINING AND MAINTENANCE:THEIR INFLUENCE OF THE SUCCESS OF YOUR ROBOT APPLICATION By Robert R.Trouteaud Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979

3 JUSTIFICATION

"SELLING"THE ROBOT—JUSTIFICATION FOR ROBOT INSTALLATIONS By William R.Tanner Presented at the Robots Ⅲ Conference,November,1978

ROBOTS MAKE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SENSE By Joseph F.Engelberger Reprinted by permission from Atlanta Economic Review(now BUSINESS Magazine),"Robots Make Economic and Social Sense,"by Joseph F.Engelberger,July-August,1977

THE JUSTIFICATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT By Timothy Bublick Presented at the Finishing 77 Conference and Exposition,October,1977

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ROBOT APPLICATIONS By John A.Behuniak Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979

JUSTIFYING A ROBOT MACHINING SYSTEM IN BATCH MANUFACTURING By John G.Holmes Reprinted from Robotics Today,Summer,1979

ROBOT FLEXIBILITY ALLOWS TRANSFER TO NEW JOB By Stan Gilbert Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979

ROBOTS REDUCE EXPOSURE TO SOME INDUSTRIAL HAZARDS By Norman M.Heroux and George Munson,Jr. Reprinted by permission of the authors from National Safety News,July,1974

4 HUMAN FACTORS

THREE LAWS FOR ROBOTOCISTS:AN APPROACH TO OVERCOMING WORKER AND MANAGEMENT

RESISTANCE TO INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS By Neale W.Clapp Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979

A VIEW OF THE UNITED AUTOMOBILE,AEROSPACE AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA(UAW)STAND ON INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS By Thomas L.Weekley Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979

MANAGEMENT RESISTANCE TO INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS By Neale W.Clapp Presented at the Robots Ⅴ Conference,October,1980

AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT PUBLIC RELATIONS CHECKLIST By Robert Skole Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Industrial Robots,September,1975

5 CAPABILITIES

"ROBOT AUTOMATION"—TODAY'S STATUS By William Uhde Presented at the 1978 International Engineering Conference,May,1978

WHAT CAN MEDIUM TECHNOLOGY ROBOTS DO? By Walter K.Weisel Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,1977

ROBOTS DON'T JUST HANDLE THINGS—THEY DO THINGS TOO By John Mattox Reprinted from Automation,November,1976.Copyright Penton/IPC 1976

APPLICATION FLEXIBILITY OF A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED INDUSTRIAL ROBOT By Richard E.Hohn Presented at the First North American Industrial Robot Conference,October,1976

ASEA ROBOT SYSTEM—EXPANDING THE RANGE OF INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS By Bjorn Weichbrodt Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Industrial Robots,September,1975

DEVELOPMENTS IN PROGRAMMABLE AUTOMATION By C.A.Rosen and D.Nitzan Reprinted from Manufacturing Engineering,September,1975

6 APPLICATION

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS TODAY By William R.Tanner and Raymond H.Spiotta Reprinted from Machine and Tool Blue Book,March,1980

ROBOTS:NEW FACES ON THE PRODUCTION LINE By Carl Remick Reprinted,by permission of the publisher,from Management Review,May,1979.Copyright 1979 by AMACON,a division of American Management Associations.All rights reserved

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF A LIMITED SEQUENCE ROBOT By Ronald D.Potter Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Industrial Robots,September,1975

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS FOR ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN ROBOTS By Brian Ford Presented at the 1978 International Engineering Conference,May,1978

MOVING LINE APPLICATIONS WITH A COMPUTER CONTROLLED ROBOT By Bryan L.Dawson Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,1977

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND NEW APPLICATIONS FOR THE TRALLFA ROBOT By Sjur Laerdal Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Industrial Robots,September,1975

7 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

USE OF SENSORS IN PROGRAMMABLE AUTOMATION By Charles A.Rosen and David Nitzen 1977 IEEE,Reprinted,with permission,from COMPUTER,vol.10,no.12,pp.12-23,December,1977

CONSIGHT:A PRACTICAL VISION-BASED ROBOT GUIDANCE SYSTEM By Mitchel R.Ward,Lothar Rossol,Steven W.Holland and Robert Dewar Presented at the Ninth International Symposium Industrial Robots Conference,March,1979

REAL-TIME ROBOT CONTROL WITH A MOBILE CAMERA By Gerald J.Agin Reprinted from Robotics Today,Fall,1979

WORKPIECE TRANSPORTATION BY ROBOT USING VISION By ？ben K.Kelley,J.Birk and V.Badami？

EXPERIMENTS IN PART ACQUISITION USING ROBOT VISION By Roger N.Nagel,Gordon VanderBrug,James S.Albus and Ellen Lowenfeld Reprinted from Robotics Today,Winter,1980

TOUCH-SENSING TECHNOLOGY:A REVIEW By Leon D.Harmon Presented at the Robots Ⅴ Conference,October,1980

GIVING ROBOTS THE POWER TO COPE By Hans Colleen Reprinted from Robotics Today,Spring,1980

THE REMOTE CENTER COMPLIANCE SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO HIGH SPEED ROBOT ASSEMBLIES By Paul C.Watson Presented at the Assemblex Ⅳ Conference,October,1977

THE REMOTE AXIS ADMITTANCE—A KEY TO ROBOT ASSEMBLY By Paul C.Watson Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979

USE OF SENSORY INFORMATION FOR IMPROVED ROBOT LEARNING By Donald S.Seltzer Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979

MANUFACTURERS AND

DISTRIBUTORS

ROBOTIC ORGANIZATIONS

INDEX