TY  - JOUR
AB  - The use of industrial robots in the advanced countries of the world is growing. Whilst generally the concept of a robot is taken as a highly versatile human‐like device the term also extends to include much simpler devices of the pick‐and‐place type with a fixed sequence of events and these form by far the largest proportion of the world's robot population. Whilst they lack versatility in themselves they often form part of a much more complex automatic system in which some degree of flexibility is required. In addition they must operate at their optimum rate whilst being fail‐safe in operation. The design of a suitable control system to meet such demands particularly when a number of such devices and the primary process machinery have to be interlinked can be solved with the aid of sequential switching theory.
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
SN  - 0143-991X
DO  - 10.1108/eb004448
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004448
AU  - Rooks B.W.
AU  - Okpere K.O.
AU  - Cheng R.H.M.
PY  - 1974
Y1  - 1974/01/01
TI  - Asynchronous Sequential Control of a Billet Handling System for Feeding a Hot Forging Machine
T2  - Industrial Robot: An International Journal
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 66
EP  - 71
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -