The World Yearbook of Robotics Research and Development
How quickly the technological 'flavour of the month' changes. At the beginning of the 1980's many saw 'robotics' as being something of a pana cea for those problems in the manufacturing industries which had been exacerbated by the world recession. Those
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YEARBOOK OF
ROBOTICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
THE WORLD YEARBOOK OF
ROBOTICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Consultant Editor Peter Scott
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Kogan Page
Distributed exclusively in the United States, possessions, and Canada by Gale Research Company, Book Tower, Detroit, Michigan 48226.
First published 1986 by Kogan Page Ltd 120 Pentonville Road, London Nt 9JN Copyright © Kogan Page Ltd 1986 All rights reserved British Llbl1lry Cataloguing in Publication Data The World yearbook of robotics research and development - 2nd ed. 1. Robot s, Industrial - Periodicals I. Title 629.8'92 TS I91.8 ISBN 978-94-011-9710-6 ISBN 978-94-011-9708-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-9708-3
CONTENTS
Introduction
9
PART 1: ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS
11
USA perspectives on the integration of robots into the factory of the future Richard L Smith, Professor of Industrial Management Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, USA
13
Research and development programmes in computer-integrated manufacturing in Europe J-F Le Maitre, General Manager, International Institute of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Marseilles, France
21
Robotics research and development in 1985: a Japanese perspective M P Turchan, Faculty ofEngineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
27
Tactile sensors for robots: a review A M M Yardley and Professor K D Baker, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Plymouth Polytechnic, Devon, UK
47
New manufacturing concepts - the plant engineer's perspective A Mullin, Manager, Asset Preservation Plant Engineering, Ford ofEurope, UK
85
Robotics - some wider implications Professor M Cooley, Director of Technology, The Greater London Enterprise Board, UK
95
PART 2: CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS: OVERVIEWS AND NATIONAL FUNDING PROGRAMMES
105
Australia 107, Canada 110, Federal Republic of Germany 114, Finland 116, Hungary 117, Italy 118, Israel 120, Japan 121, Norway 125, Spain 128, Sweden 130, United Kingdom 132, United States 136, Yugoslavia 139
PART 3: WORLD DIRECTORY OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
141
Australia 143, Austria 157, Belgium 161, Bulgaria 165, Canada 166, Denmark 206, Federal Republic of Germany 207, Finland 222, France 224, Hungary 256, Israel 259, Italy 260, Japan 278, The Netherlands 310, Norway 311, Poland 314, Singapore 319, Spain 321, Sweden 325, Switzerland 328, United Kingdom 332, United States 417, Yugoslavia 504
PART 4: WORLD INDEX OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRES
509
PART 5: WORLD INDEX OF ROBOTICS RESEARCHERS
521
PART 6: SUBJECT INDEX TO RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
541
PART 7: FURTHER INFORMATION
567
Useful addresses 569, Select bibliography 575
FOREWORD
How quickly the technological 'flavour of the month' changes. At the beginning of the 1980's many saw 'robotics' as being something of a panacea for those problems in the manufacturing industries which had been exacerbated by the world recession. Those working at the time in the field of robotics stressed that robots themselves were only part of the solution. Yet in many quarters the 'hype' for the new technolo
