Robotics, sensors, & devices publications

Because the rationale for triangle tables still seems relevant, I have recently elaborated the original concept and have begun to consider how the expanded formalism could be used as a…

This report gives a preliminary account of the construction of a low-cost laser system for providing data on defective solder joints on printed circuit boards.

This paper describes an operator for detecting rivers in low-resolution aerial imagery. The operator provides results that would allow graph-traversing routines to delineate these structures.

We are interested in constructing a computer agent whose behavior will be intelligent enough to perform cooperative tasks involving other agents like itself. The construction of such agents has been…

A number of problems in this area requiring further research are discussed, including dealing with time, planning for parallel execution, planning for information gathering, planning for planning, learning, interactive planning,…

Characterized by flexibility and the ease of setup for new production tasks, programmable automation employs industrial robots. Today’s robots possess "muscles" only; there is a need to develop intelligent robots…

In this paper we are concerned with the application of sensor-mediated programmable automation to material-handling, inspection, and assembly operations in batch-produced, discrete-part manufacturing.

A new method for representing actions within a computer memory has been developed, and this new representation, called the procedural net, has been employed in developing new strategies for solving…

This report describes a robot control program consisting of a hierarchically organized plan generation and execution system written in QA4 and making use of several features of that language.

In this paper we describe some of the possible extensions, illustrating the discussion where possible with examples taken from the current Stanford Research Institute robot system.

This paper proposed the development of automation technology designed to increase quality, in all its aspects, at an acceptable cost to society.

In this report we consider other families of task, such as those involving the inhibition of an action or the maintenance of the current state of its environment.