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The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) is currently developing a facility for conduction research on automated manufacturing. This facility, called the...
The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) is being established at the National Bureau of Standards. This manufacturing testbed provides a means for...
Robotics is a system science that attempts to integrate artificial intelligence with feedback control of mechanical devices. It draws on work in pattern...
HCL is a hierarchical cellular logic, in which operations are applied to objects called bit-pyramids which themselves are functions on spaces called...
The advent of low cost microcomputer hardware has provided the capability for sophisticated control of robot machinery, allowing such features as straight line...
The goal of the sensory system is to supply sufficient information to the robot control system, which actually moves the robot, to accomplish a desired task...
This paper describes two laser tracking techniques currently under development at the National Bureau of Standards for robot performance measurements. Tests...
This paper will discuss a possible low-level control interface for a robot manipulator. The first section will present background information describing a...
A method is described of representing curved or line-like segments of images using Chebyshev polynomials. The advantages of the approximations include fast...