Computing Techniques for Robots PDF
by Igor Aleksander
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I. ALEKSANDER Kobler Unit for Information Technology Management, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England It is now over half a decade since Joseph Engelberger wrote: 'Given a six-articulation arm of any configuration, software can be powerful enough to think only in tool coordinates.
That is, a programmer concerns himself only with the tool on the end of the robot arm.
He can think of the tool's frame of reference and com- puter subroutines automatically make the various articulations move so as to accomplish the desired tool manipulation. ' As is often the case with statements of this kind, they are appealing and generally well-founded in technological feasibility.
But in order to turn the prediction into reality it requires the dedication and in- ventiveness of an international community of researchers.
The object of this book is to provide a window on to some of the advances made by this community which go towards the fulfilment of Engelberger's predictions.
A significant factor in the framework within which this work is being pursued is the phenomenal advance in the availability of inex- pensive and highly compact computing power.
It becomes increas- ingly possible to imagine powerful microprocessors providing local intelligence at key points in a robot arm Uoints, gripper, etc) by being connected through a communications network and controlled by some specially designated supervisory microchip.
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