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Service robots for personnel/domestic use. Stock at the end of 2006 437
and projected installations in 2007 – 2010
3,000
2,500
'000s of units 2,000

1,500
1,000
500
0
Vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers Entertainment and leisure robots
Up to end 2006 New installations 2007 – 2010

FIGURE 8.47 Robot installation projection 2006–2010 for domestic and personal
use.

Further Reading
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Ballard, D. H., “Generalizing the Hough Transform to Detect Arbitrary Shapes,”
Pattern Recognition, 13(2): 111–112 (1981).
Barrow, H. G., and R. J. Popplestone, “Relational Descriptions in Picture Processing,”
Machine Intelligence 6, Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
“Decade of Robotics,” 10th anniversary issue of International Robot, IFS Publications,
1983.
Dell’Acque, R., “A Bright Future for Thick Film Sensor,” SAE 890480.
Duba, R. O., and P. E. Hart, “Use of Hough Transform to Detect Lines and Curves
in Pictures,” Communications of AQCM, 15(1): 11–15, January 1972.
DuPoint-Gateland, C. “Flexible Manufacturing Systems for Gearboxes,” Proc. 1st
Int. Conf. on FMS, Brighton, UK, 453–563, October 20–22, 1982.
Heintz, F., and E. Zabler, “Motor Vehicle Sensors Based on Film-Technology: An
Interesting Alternative to Semiconductor Sensors,” SAE 870477.
Freeman, H., “Computer Processing of Line-Drawing Images,” Computing Survey
6(1), March 1974.
Gilbert, J. L., and V. Y. Paternoster, “Ultrasonic End Effector for Weld Inspection,”
NASA Tech Briefs, May 1992.
Hench, L. L., and J. K. West, Principles of Electronic Ceramics, John Wiley & Sons,
New York, 1990.
Ingersol Engineers, The FMS Report, IFS Publications, 1982.
Karp, R. M., “Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems,” Complexity of Computer
Computations, Plenum Press, 85–103, 1972.
Kingery, W. D., H. K. Bowen, and D. R. Uhlmann, Introduction to Ceramics, John
Wiley & Sons, New York, 1976.
Morgan, T. K., “Planning for the Introduction of FMS,” Proc. 2d Int. Conf. on FMS,
349–357, 1983.
Novak, A., “The Concept of Artificial Intelligence in Unmanned Production—
Application of Adaptive Control,” Proc. 2d Int. Conf. on FMS, 669–680, 1983.
Perkins, W. A., “A Model-Based Vision System for Industrial Parts,” IEEE Trans.
Computers, C-27, 126–143, February 1978.
Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Brighton, 20–22 October 1982.
IFS Publications and North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982.