A need has been identified for a flexible research instrument which will allow rapid reconfiguration of the sensors available to the robot workstation and which can be easily programmed to enable groups of different s...
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A need has been identified for a flexible research instrument which will allow rapid reconfiguration of the sensors available to the robot workstation and which can be easily programmed to enable groups of different sensors to be invoked as and when required throughout a given assembly process. This would allow a particular assembly problem to be tackled using a combination of sensors on a modular basis, thereby enabling more rapid evaluation of the effectiveness of different sensory techniques to take place. A multi-processor system is described which would consign all the data processing.software and special I/O requirements for given sensors to an array of dedicated slave processors. A Master processor would then simply allocate tasks to these sensory slaves as and when required within any given assembly process.
The work outlined in this paper forms the basis of a recently established, collaborative project between the School of Engineering, University of Sussex, and THORN EMI Central Research Laboratories. Its primary object...
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The work outlined in this paper forms the basis of a recently established, collaborative project between the School of Engineering, University of Sussex, and THORN EMI Central Research Laboratories. Its primary objective is to develop techniques for tactile sensing based on sensor arrays, and for interpretation of the sensor data, applicable to flexible assembly automation systems. Current use of tactile sensing in robotics is at an early stage. Recent developments in the USA, however, suggest that future assembly automation will make increasing use of high-resolution tactile arrays having similar sensory capabilities to the human finger.
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