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8.10.1 Extreme Environments . . . . . . . . . . 409
8.10.2 Cryogenic Manufacturing
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
8.10.3 Measurement at High Temperatures
in Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
8.11 Robot Control through Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . 411
8.12 Multisensor-Controlled Robot Assembly . . . . 412
8.12.1 Control Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
8.12.2 Vision Sensor Modules . . . . . . . . . . 416
8.12.3 Software Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
8.12.4 Vision Sensor Software . . . . . . . . . . 417
8.13 History of Industrial Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
8.13.1 Early Modern Developments . . . . . 418
8.13.2 Modern Developments . . . . . . . . . . 418
8.14 The Invention of Industrial Robots . . . . . . . . 419
8.14.1 Technical Description . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
8.14.2 Robot Programming and
Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
8.14.3 End Effectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
8.14.4 Movement and Singularities . . . . . . 425
8.15 Robot Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
8.16 The 2006 World Robot Market—Total
Worldwide Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
8.17 Measurements of Robot Density Based on the
Total Number of Persons Employed . . . . . . . 434
8.17.1 Robot Densities—One Robot per
Ten Workers in the Motor Vehicle
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
8.17.2 Installations of Advanced
Multipurpose Industrial Robots
by Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
8.17.3 Distribution of Service Robots for
Professional Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
8.17.4 Distribution of Service Robots for
Personal and Private Use . . . . . . . . 435
8.18 Projections for the Period 2007–2010 . . . . . . 436
Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

9 Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
9.2 Single-Board Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
9.3 Sensors for Input Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
9.4 Microcomputer Interactive Development
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444