Industrial Robot: Volume 1 Issue 6

A Simple Accurate Positioning System for an Industrial Robot

B.W. Rooks, S.A. Tobias

The present designs of industrial robots or mechanical handling units generally fall into two categories, the simple pick‐and‐place units with two fixed positions per axis, or the…

Visual Robots

Marc G. Dreyfus

Equipment is now available for factory use to automate visual recognition, memorization, orientation, and inspection. Standard units scan a field of view in a thousandth of a…

Industrial Robots and Fluid Control Systems

Goran Lundstrom

With the word fluid we mean gases and liquids. With a fluid control system we mean a control system in which we use a fluid as the signal carrier. Those fluid control systems in…

Spray Painting Robots: Advanced paint shop automation

K.M. Haugan

The increasing demand for industrial automation has finally reached the paint shops throughout the mechanical industry. The operations performed in most paint shops are stressing…

ASEA Industrial Robots‐Taking Over Unwanted Jobs Through Numerical Control

C. Hansson

Not many automation tools have been so much discussed as the industrial robot. Starting about ten years ago, robots were first marketed as universal machines, capable of replacing…