Page 6 - Robot Builders Source Book - Gordon McComb

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition ix

1 Introduction: Brief Historical Review and Main Definitions 1

1.1 What Robots Are I
1.2 Definition of Levels or Kinds of Robots 6
1.3 Manipulators 12
1.4 Structure of Automatic Industrial Systems 20
1.5 Nonindustrial Representatives of the Robot Family 26
1.6 Relationship between the Level of Robot "Intelligence"
and the Product 34
References 36

2 Concepts and Layouts 37

2.1 Processing Layout 37
2.2 How Does One Find the Concept of an
Automatic Manufacturing Process? 45
2.3 How to Determine the Productivity of a Manufacturing Process 50

2.4 The Kinematic Layout 55
2.5 Rapid Prototyping 61

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