Industrial Robot: Volume 23 Issue 5

Paint robots in the automotive industry – process and cost optimization

Udo Grohmann

Reviews the current use of paint robots in the automotive industry and looks at the further development of robot control which has extended its reach into the area of process…

Robot machines rapid prototype

Joris S.M. Vergeest, Johan W.H. Tangelder

Describes the application of an industrial robot to the rapid prototyping of 3D CAD‐defined products. Outlines the equipment and the major software issues of the fully automatic…

Task planning in robot simulation

John Owens

Describes the approach adapted by Robot Simulations Ltd in their development of successive versions of the Workspace software package, namely to place the emphasis on using the…

Industrial robotics in South‐East Asia: ISIR Report

Bijan Shirinzadeh

Reports on the proceedings of the 26th ISIR (International Symposium on Industrial Robots) held in Singapore, October 1995 and on the 4th Asian‐Pacific Industrial Automation…

Advanced robotics – thought for food

Anna Kochan

Reports on the industrial robots papers presented at the two‐day International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Machines held at the University of Salford. Subjects…

Stäubli path optimization

Anna Kochan

Summarizes the main characteristics of Stäubli’s V_Trajsig software option which the company claims provides a unique way of achieving an optimum path‐following performance.