Sensor Review: Volume 3 Issue 2
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The international journal of sensing for industryTable of contents
Major advance by British company in automatic laser processing
To date lasers have not been used to their full capacity in industrial applications. However the situation could change as a British company is developing a commercial…
Proximity sensing uses re·entrant loop magnetic effect
G. Beni, L.A. Hornak, S. HackwoodAdvantages claimed by the authors for this type of magnetic sensor for embedding in robot fingers are that it is independent of the rate of approach, it is reliable in hostile…
Camshaft grinding burn detection by acoustic emission
D.A. Roberts, D.L. LeeteThis report describes the progress that has been made to date on burn detection by acoustic emission with two‐inch camshafts produced for V6 and V8 engines on a Norton ‘camomatic’…
Grabbing moving objects with visual feedback
Daniel Gelbgras, Marc BogaertThis paper describes a system to grasp oscillating shock absorbers on a variable speed aerial conveyor. The system includes a set of cameras and a gripping tool mounted on a…
Simple solutions trace complex surfaces
Relatively simple and standard sensing equipment is quite adequate for some quite advanced and productive applications with robots, as has been demonstrated at the Cranfield Robot…
A gripper for ultra·thin·walled tubes with a built·in force sensor
Y. Tur‐Kaspa, Sunrise Robotix, E. LenzThrough a unique design and application of a photo‐elastic material a gripper was developed that was able to perform high precision assembly tasks with a robot on ultra…
Eddy current and ultrasonic sensors for robot arc welding
M.P. Howarth, M.F. GuyoteEddy current and ultrasonic sensing have potentially large advantages over vision systems for guidance of arc welding, except with very complex geometries. They are simpler, less…
A multi·processor system for sensory robotic assembly
I. Mitchell, D.G. Whitehead, A. PughThe Robotics Research Unit at the University of Hull is engaged in work on robotic assembly problems using various sensory techniques.
Detection of cracked screw heads using a linescan camera
C. Wallis, I.T. FranksCracked screw heads have, as this paper describes, been automatically detected by a solid state electronic linescanning camera. The equipment which includes an automatic feeding…
Low·cost ultrasonics finds industrial use
Two other articles in this issue of Sensor Review make mention of the Polaroid ultrasonic rangefinding equipment which was originally developed for the company's own cameras…
Sensing down on the farm
Publication last month by the Agricultural Research Council of a report dealing with future needs for sensors highlights the need and opportunities for exchange of ideas and…
Vehicle finds its own way with mixed sensing
Using a variety of sensing methods the mobile robots laboratory at the University of Warwick is developing a free‐ranging vehicle for use in factories and stock yards.
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- Professor Kean C. Aw