Intelligent robotics

An industrial robot routinely carrying out an assembly or welding task is an impressive sight. More important, when operated within its design conditions it is a reliable production machine which - depending on the manufacturing process being automated - is relatively quick to bring into operation a...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Mark H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Open University Press Robotics Series
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02721nmm a2200301 u 4500
001 EB000629467
003 EBX01000000000000000482549
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 140122 ||| eng
020 |a 9781468462371 
100 1 |a Lee, Mark H. 
245 0 0 |a Intelligent robotics  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c by Mark H. Lee 
250 |a 1st ed. 1989 
260 |a New York, NY  |b Springer US  |c 1989, 1989 
300 |a XIV, 210 p. 56 illus  |b online resource 
505 0 |a 1 Setting the scene -- 2 Sensing the world -- 3 Artificial sight -- 4 The problem of perception -- 5 Building a knowledge base -- 6 Machinery for thinking about actions -- 7 Speech and language: from mouse to man -- 8 Emulating the expert -- 9 Errors, failures and disasters -- 10 Better by design -- 11 Towards a science of physical manipulation 
653 |a Humanities and Social Sciences 
653 |a Humanities 
653 |a Social sciences 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b SBA  |a Springer Book Archives -2004 
490 0 |a Open University Press Robotics Series 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-1-4684-6237-1 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6237-1?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 001.3 
082 0 |a 300 
520 |a An industrial robot routinely carrying out an assembly or welding task is an impressive sight. More important, when operated within its design conditions it is a reliable production machine which - depending on the manufacturing process being automated - is relatively quick to bring into operation and can often repay its capital cost within a year or two. Yet first impressions can be deceptive: if the workpieces deviate somewhat in size or position, or, worse; if a gripper slips or a feeder jams the whole system may halt and look very unimpressive indeed. This is mainly because the sum total of the system's knowledge is simply a list of a few variables describing a sequence of positions in space; the means of moving from one to the next; how to react to a few input signals; and how to give a few output commands to associated machines. The acquisition, orderly retention and effective use of knowledge are the crucial missing techniques whose inclusion over the coming years will transform today's industrial robot into a truly robotic system embodying the 'intelligent connection of perception to action'. The use of computers to implement these techniques is the domain of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (machine intelligence). Evidently, it is an essential ingredient in the future development of robotics; yet the relationship between AI practitioners and robotics engineers has been an uneasy one ever since the two disciplines were born