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Robot sensors and transducers

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  • © 1987

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  1. S. R. Ruocco
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • S. R. Ruocco
      Pages 1-9

  3. Transducers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Position transducers

      • S. R. Ruocco
      Pages 12-26

    3. Light transducers

      • S. R. Ruocco
      Pages 27-52

    4. Force transducers

      • S. R. Ruocco
      Pages 53-68

    5. Velocity transducers

      • S. R. Ruocco
      Pages 69-78

  4. Sensors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Robot vision sensors

      • S. R. Ruocco
      Pages 80-112

    3. Tactile sensors

      • S. R. Ruocco
      Pages 113-120

  5. Image Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Image processing

      • S. R. Ruocco
      Pages 122-154

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 155-166
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The use of sensor's with machines, whether to control them continuously or to inspect and verify their operation, can be highly cost-effective in particular areas of industrial automation. Examples of such areas include sensing systems to monitor tool condition, force and torque sensing for robot assembly systems, vision-based automatic inspection, and tracking sensor's for robot arc welding and seam sealing. Many think these will be the basis of an important future industry. So far, design of sensor systems to meet these needs has been (in the interest of cheapness) rather ad hoc and carefully tailored to the application both as to the transducer hardware and the associated processing software. There are now, however, encouraging signs of commonality emerging between different sensor application areas. For instance, many commercial vision systems and some tactile systems just emerging from research are able to use more or less standardized techniques for two-dimensional image processing and shape representation. Structured-light triangulation systems can be applied with relatively minor hardware and software variations to measure three-dimensional profiles of objects as diverse as individual soldered joints, body pressings, and weldments. Sensors make it possible for machines to recover 'sensibly' from errors, and standard software proce­ dures such as expert systems can now be applied to facilitate this.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Robot sensors and transducers

  • Authors: S. R. Ruocco

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6872-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: S. R. Ruocco 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-6874-8Published: 13 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-6872-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 166

  • Number of Illustrations: 96 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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