《DESIGN OF AND EQUIPMENT FOR HOT LABORATORIES》

CHAPTERS3

1 BASICS3

BASICS OF ROBOTICS By William R.Tanner Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,19773

THE TIME MAY SOON ARRIVE TO PUTA ROBOT IN YOUR SHOP By Jake Koekebakker Reprinted from Canadian Machinery and Metalworking,January,198013

ROBOTS ARE MOLDING A NEW IMAGE—PART Ⅰ By Norbert G.Seman Reprinted from Foundry Management and Technology,May,197928

ROBOTS ARE MOLDING A NEW IMAGE—PART Ⅱ By Norbert G.Seman Reprinted from Foundry Management and Technology,June,197933

OFF-THE-SHELF AUTOMATION Reprinted from Automation,May,1976,Copyright Penton/IPC 197636

2 IMPLEMENTATION43

A USER'S GUIDE TO ROBOT APPLICATIONS By William R.Tanner Presented at the First North American Industrial Robot Conference,October,197643

VERN'S RULES OF THUMB WHEN APPLYING ROBOTS By Vernon E.Estes Reprinted from Tooling ＆ Production,August,197953

CAN I USE A ROBOT? By William R.Tanner Reprinted from Robotics Today,Spring,198054

ROBOTS ARE EASY...IT'S EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S HARD By David T.Cousineau Presented at the Robots Ⅴ Conference,October,198056

ANALYSIS OF FIRST UTD INSTALLATION FAILURES By Gennaro C.Macri Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,197774

ROBOT INTERFACE:SWITCH CLOSURE AND BEYOND By Brian J.Resnick Presented at the Robots Ⅲ Conference,November,197885

ROBOT DECISION MAKING By H.Randolph Holt Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,197791

SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS By Dr.-Ing H.Worn Presented at the Robots Ⅴ Conference,October,1980100

SAFETY,TRAINING AND MAINTENANCE:THEIR INFLUENCE OF THE SUCCESS OF YOUR ROBOT APPLICATION By Robert R.Trouteaud Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979114

3 JUSTIFICATION127

"SELLING"THE ROBOT—JUSTIFICATION FOR ROBOT INSTALLATIONS By William R.Tanner Presented at the Robots Ⅲ Conference,November,1978127

ROBOTS MAKE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SENSE By Joseph F.Engelberger Reprinted by permission from Atlanta Economic Review(now BUSINESS Magazine),"Robots Make Economic and Social Sense,"by Joseph F.Engelberger,July-August,1977137

THE JUSTIFICATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT By Timothy Bublick Presented at the Finishing 77 Conference and Exposition,October,1977141

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ROBOT APPLICATIONS By John A.Behuniak Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979148

JUSTIFYING A ROBOT MACHINING SYSTEM IN BATCH MANUFACTURING By John G.Holmes Reprinted from Robotics Today,Summer,1979152

ROBOT FLEXIBILITY ALLOWS TRANSFER TO NEW JOB By Stan Gilbert Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979158

ROBOTS REDUCE EXPOSURE TO SOME INDUSTRIAL HAZARDS By Norman M.Heroux and George Munson,Jr. Reprinted by permission of the authors from National Safety News,July,1974160

4 HUMAN FACTORS169

THREE LAWS FOR ROBOTOCISTS:AN APPROACH TO OVERCOMING WORKER AND MANAGEMENT169

RESISTANCE TO INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS By Neale W.Clapp Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979169

A VIEW OF THE UNITED AUTOMOBILE,AEROSPACE AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA(UAW)STAND ON INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS By Thomas L.Weekley Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979176

MANAGEMENT RESISTANCE TO INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS By Neale W.Clapp Presented at the Robots Ⅴ Conference,October,1980181

AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT PUBLIC RELATIONS CHECKLIST By Robert Skole Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Industrial Robots,September,1975190

5 CAPABILITIES201

"ROBOT AUTOMATION"—TODAY'S STATUS By William Uhde Presented at the 1978 International Engineering Conference,May,1978201

WHAT CAN MEDIUM TECHNOLOGY ROBOTS DO? By Walter K.Weisel Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,1977210

ROBOTS DON'T JUST HANDLE THINGS—THEY DO THINGS TOO By John Mattox Reprinted from Automation,November,1976.Copyright Penton/IPC 1976220

APPLICATION FLEXIBILITY OF A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED INDUSTRIAL ROBOT By Richard E.Hohn Presented at the First North American Industrial Robot Conference,October,1976224

ASEA ROBOT SYSTEM—EXPANDING THE RANGE OF INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS By Bjorn Weichbrodt Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Industrial Robots,September,1975243

DEVELOPMENTS IN PROGRAMMABLE AUTOMATION By C.A.Rosen and D.Nitzan Reprinted from Manufacturing Engineering,September,1975254

6 APPLICATION261

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS TODAY By William R.Tanner and Raymond H.Spiotta Reprinted from Machine and Tool Blue Book,March,1980261

ROBOTS:NEW FACES ON THE PRODUCTION LINE By Carl Remick Reprinted,by permission of the publisher,from Management Review,May,1979.Copyright 1979 by AMACON,a division of American Management Associations.All rights reserved272

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF A LIMITED SEQUENCE ROBOT By Ronald D.Potter Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Industrial Robots,September,1975277

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS FOR ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN ROBOTS By Brian Ford Presented at the 1978 International Engineering Conference,May,1978286

MOVING LINE APPLICATIONS WITH A COMPUTER CONTROLLED ROBOT By Bryan L.Dawson Presented at the Robots Ⅱ Conference,October,1977294

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND NEW APPLICATIONS FOR THE TRALLFA ROBOT By Sjur Laerdal Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Industrial Robots,September,1975309

7 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY325

USE OF SENSORS IN PROGRAMMABLE AUTOMATION By Charles A.Rosen and David Nitzen 1977 IEEE,Reprinted,with permission,from COMPUTER,vol.10,no.12,pp.12-23,December,1977325

CONSIGHT:A PRACTICAL VISION-BASED ROBOT GUIDANCE SYSTEM By Mitchel R.Ward,Lothar Rossol,Steven W.Holland and Robert Dewar Presented at the Ninth International Symposium Industrial Robots Conference,March,1979337

REAL-TIME ROBOT CONTROL WITH A MOBILE CAMERA By Gerald J.Agin Reprinted from Robotics Today,Fall,1979354

WORKPIECE TRANSPORTATION BY ROBOT USING VISION By ？ben K.Kelley,J.Birk and V.Badami？359

EXPERIMENTS IN PART ACQUISITION USING ROBOT VISION By Roger N.Nagel,Gordon VanderBrug,James S.Albus and Ellen Lowenfeld Reprinted from Robotics Today,Winter,1980369

TOUCH-SENSING TECHNOLOGY:A REVIEW By Leon D.Harmon Presented at the Robots Ⅴ Conference,October,1980375

GIVING ROBOTS THE POWER TO COPE By Hans Colleen Reprinted from Robotics Today,Spring,1980401

THE REMOTE CENTER COMPLIANCE SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO HIGH SPEED ROBOT ASSEMBLIES By Paul C.Watson Presented at the Assemblex Ⅳ Conference,October,1977404

THE REMOTE AXIS ADMITTANCE—A KEY TO ROBOT ASSEMBLY By Paul C.Watson Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979415

USE OF SENSORY INFORMATION FOR IMPROVED ROBOT LEARNING By Donald S.Seltzer Presented at the Robots Ⅳ Conference,October,1979424

MANUFACTURERS AND435

DISTRIBUTORS435

ROBOTIC ORGANIZATIONS439

INDEX441