Industrial Robot: Volume 6 Issue 4

Computer techniques used in industrial robots

M.P. Skidmore

The term ‘Flexible Automation’ is used by Cincinnati Milacron to describe their Industrial Robots. Many aspects of this flexibility have occurred because of the computer control…

Robot arc welding developments

J. Weston, S.B. Jones, J.J. Hunter

This paper outlines the range of robots available and in use in Britain for arc welding, and gives examples of typical current industrial applications. Work at the National…

Open die forging with industrial robots

E. Appleton, W.B. Heginbotham, D. Law

This paper surveys the work on robot forging which has been taking place at the University of Nottingham over the last two years, initially using a Versatran D301 as a base for a…

Grippers and clamping elements‐modular elements for the automation of production technology

W. Fröhlich

The problems of handling technology are no longer confined to robot technology alone, i.e. to specific equipment developments, insertion devices, and industrial robots, even if…

Recognition and orientation of component profiles within the low resolution of teletext graphics

C. Loughlin, A. Pugh

Teletext as a communication and information medium has aroused considerable interest in the U.K. and the system has been under test for three years by the national television…

Automobile body assembly line system based on module type robot application

Yutaka Mishima, Sadaji Murakami

The OKAZAKI plant of the Mitsubishi Motor Corporation started production in August 1977. The plant has adopted the latest layout which could not be developed without the concepts…