Robotics in Alpe-Adria Region

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Surveys

   1. Robotics Research in Austria

      • K. Desoyer, P. Kopacek, I. Troch

      Pages 1-7

   2. Considerations on Objectives, Tasks, and Organisation of Alpe-Adria Centre for Robotics and Automation

      • J. Lenarcic, U. Stanic, P. M. Oblak

      Pages 8-12

   3. Advanced Control Concepts for Industrial Robots

      • P. Kopacek, P. Otto, J. Wernstedt

      Pages 13-23

   4. IMProvement in Automation and Control Technology A Joint European initiative

      • P. Gabko, M. Stierle

      Pages 24-28

3. Robotics Research in Alpe Adria

   1. Research Activities in Robotics at RISC-Linz

      • S. Stifter

      Pages 29-33

   2. Applied Robotics Group Research Activities at the ITIA-Institute for Industrial Technologies and Automation of CNR

      • C. R. Boër, E. Imperio

      Pages 34-38

   3. Robotic Research at the Scientific Academy of Lower Austria

      • P. Kopacek, G. Krenn

      Pages 39-43

4. Robot Kinematics and Kinetics

   1. Robot Wrist Configurations, Mechanisms and Kinematics

      • A. Romiti, T. Raparelli, M. Sorli

      Pages 44-48

   2. Parallel Evaluation of Robot Kinematic Transformations

      • K. Dobrovodsky, P. Kurdel

      Pages 49-53

   3. Robot Arm Modelling and Control

      • S. Uran, K. Jezernik

      Pages 54-58

   4. Dynamic Model of a Mobile Robot for Analyzing End-effector Deviations Caused from Ground Unevenness

      • G. Elsbacher

      Pages 59-63

5. Construction, Design and Simulation of Robots

   1. Considerations for the Construction of Lightweight Robots

      • K. Desoyer, I. Caushi, P. Kopacek

      Pages 64-68

   2. Design and Construction of a Modular Robot with Eulerian Joints

      • M. M. Gola, D. Botto

      Pages 69-73

   3. Design of SCARA robot

      • D. Noe, M. Skubic

      Pages 74-78

   4. Design Measures for Lightweight Industrial Robots

      • I. D. Çaushi

      Pages 79-83

   5. Designing Manipulators for a Robotized Manufacturing

      • M. Ceccarelli, L. Carrino

      Pages 84-88

   6. Optimal Stochastic Design of a Parallel Robot for Tolerance

      • P. B. Zobel, P. Di Stefano

      Pages 89-93

   7. USIS — An advanced 3D-Robot Simulation System

      • L. Bauer, R. Stetter, C. Woenckhaus

      Pages 94-98

   8. Emulation of Articulated Robots

      • G. Conte, T. Leo, S. Longhi, R. Zulli

      Pages 99-103

Industrial robots as a kind of a mechatronic system were the objects for intensive scientific research in the last years. Kinematics and kinetics, advanced control algorithms, flexible robots, mobile robots, cooperation of robots were research topics. Meanwhile the industrial robot is more or less a tool on the shop floor level like NC- and CNC-machines, transportation and storage devices. The current research landscape on industrial robots can be divided in two directions. The first direction is the scientific one and topics like fuzzy control, applications of neuronal networks, application of methods of artificial intelligence for robot control, optimal path planning are currently headlines in this field. On the other hand the application oriented research goes in the direction to develop and create new low-cost concepts including industrial robots applicable in a commercially efficient way mainly in small and medium sized companies. The industry in most of the member countries of the Alpe-Adria Group are dominated by small and medium sized companies. Industrial robots together with the appropriate CIM-concepts are a very efficient tool for increasing the flexibility of such companies. At the first meeting in Portoroz (June 1992), a first overview on robotics research and applications in Alpe-Adria countries was given. First steps were done in the direction of a broader cooperation in science, development, production and level of education among these countries.

• automation
• computer-aided design (CAD)
• computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
• construction
• control
• kinematics
• kinetics
• measurement
• model
• modeling
• robot
• robotics
• sensor
• simulation
• stability

• Scientific Academy of Lower Austria, Krems, Austria

  Peter Kopacek

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