DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLIGENT SENSOR-BASED INDUSTRIAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM.

Abstract

The authors present an overview of the research and development being carried as part of a major project on intelligent sensor-based robot systems. Results are reported on tactile sensing using a force-optical technique, the integration of such a sensor into a gripper finger, video-rate stereo vision processing, VLSI implementation of a novel vision architecture, inference imaging device using SHADOW technique, and highly adaptive self-tuned control. The system ultimately will incorporate twin-camera-head stereo vision, range finding, and intelligent tactile processing.