From Touch to Feel: Contact-Sensing Technologies Bring Human-Like Sensitivities to the Machine/Work Interface

摘要

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS AND positioning equipment traditionally perform their tasks by following programmed, fixed paths along x-y-z coordinates. Some of them augment and modify these programs with inputs from contact, proximity and vision sensors to accommodate changes and variations in the nature and position of the work. But what about operations in which proximity doesn't provide enough precision, or vision can't see what needs to be done?