Introduces designers to hardware and software tools necessary for planning, laying out, and building advanced robot-based manufacturing cells surveying the available technology for creating innovative machines suitable to individual needs. Considers assembly system simulation, task-oriented programm

Preface -- 1 Types of Robots and Their Integration into Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems /Rudiger Dillmann -- 2 Planning of a Robot Integrated Manufacturing Process /Ulrich Rembold -- 3 Knowledge-Based Modeling for Computer-Integrated Manufacturing /Paul Levi -- 4 Simulation: Layout of a Robot Cell /Jim Browne and Subhash Wadhwa -- 5 Sensors and Grippers in Robot Work Cells /Theo Doll -- 6 Programming of the Robot Cell /Klaus Hormann -- 7 Path-Planning Methods for Robot Motion /C. Buckley -- 8 Automatic Error Detection and Recovery /Maria Gini -- 9 Databases for Planning and Manufacturing /Klaus Dittrich, Alfons Kemper, and Peter Lockemann -- 10 Development Toward Autonomous Systems /Volker Turau -- 11 Some Examples of Advanced Robot Systems Compiled and Translated by Ulrich Rembold -- 11.1 Introduction /Ulrich Rembold -- 11.2 The Automatic Assembly of Hoses Using Industrial Robots /Hans-Jiirgen Warnecke and Bruno Frankenhauser -- 11.3 A Dual-Armed Robot System for Assembly Tasks /Klaus Feldmann and Detlef Classe -- 11.4 Vision-Guided Robot Applications /Ulrich Rembold -- 11.5 Mobile Autonomous Robot IPAMAR Performs Free-Ranging AGV Operations /Hans-Jurgen Warnecke and Gerhard Drunk -- Index.