Sensor-Based Robots: Algorithms and Architectures (Nato ASI Subseries F: (closed))

This volume originates from the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sensor-Based Robots: Algorithms and Architectures, held at Château de Bonas, France, in October 1988. The increasing demand for high performance sensor- based robot manipulators in assembly tasks can only be met by: - efficient acquisition and processing of internal/ external sensory information, - utilization and integration of sensory information from various sensors to acquire knowledge in a changing environment, - exploitation of inherent robotic parallel algorithms and efficient VLSI architectures for robotic computations, - system integration into a working and functioning robotic system. The aim of the workshop was to study the fundamental research issues and problems associated with sensor- based robot manipulators and to propose approaches and solutions from various viewpoints in improving pres- ent-day robot manipulators in the areas of sensor fusion and integration, sensory information processing, and parallel algorithms and architectures for robotic computations.