Coordinated Research in Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing

摘要

The research procured under this contract is oriented toward the understanding and development of the flexible robot based manufacturing cells or islands which will increasingly become basic blocks for the building of modern parts production and assembly facilities. Present work spans a hierarchy of sub-systems oriented toward the development and integration of high performance manipulators into flexible manufacturing cells. The research topics being pursued range from highly sophisticated and accurate control algorithms for robot arm control, new types of sensors, analysis and use of advanced sensors information, to higher level languages for robot control, integration of robot systems with CAD databases, and heuristic problem solving techniques.