This book covers a wide range of topics relating to advanced industrial robotics, sensors and automation technologies. Although being highly technical and complex in nature, the papers presented in this book represent some of the latest cutting edge technologies and advancements in industrial robotics technology. This book covers topics such as networking, properties of manipulators, forward and inverse robot arm kinematics, motion path-planning, machine vision and many other practical topics too numerous to list here. The authors and editor of this book wish to inspire people, especially young ones, to get involved with robotic and mechatronic engineering technology and to develop new and exciting practical applications, perhaps using the ideas and concepts presented herein.


Table of Contents
01 A Design Framework for Sensor Integration in Robotic Applications
Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos

02 Joint Torque Sensory in Robotics
Farhad Aghili

03 Design and Validation of a Universal 6D Seam Tracking System in Robotic Welding Based on Laser Scanning
Mikael Fridenfalk and Gunnar Bolmsjo

04 Designing Distributed, Component-Based Systems for Industrial Robotic Applications
Michele Amoretti, Stefano Caselli and Monica Reggiani

05 Designing and Building Controllers for 3D Visual Servoing Applications under a Modular Scheme
M. Bachiller, C. Cerrada and J. A. Cerrada

06 Robot Calibration: Modeling Measurement and Applications
Jose Mauricio S. T. Motta

07 Accuracy and Calibration Issues of Industrial Manipulators
Mohamed Abderrahim, Alla Khamis, Santiago Garrido and Luis Moreno

08 Calibration of Serial Manipulators: Theory and Applications
Irene Fassi, Giovanni Legnani, Diego Tosi and Alberto Omodei

09 Calibration of Parallel Kinematic Machines: Theory and Applications
Giovanni Legnani, Diego Tosi, Riccardo Adamini and Irene Fassi

10 Interfacing the Gryphon Robot with the World Wide Web
Robert T. F. Ah King, Saravanen Mootien and Harry C. S. Rughooputh