Journal: Robotica

Volume 6, Issue 4

275 -- 284Murray A. Muspratt. Robot ensembles for building construction
285 -- 287A. W. De Groot. Effect of sensor size in robotic tactile sensor arrays
289 -- 296Witold Jacak, Barbara Lysakowska, Ireneusz Sierocki. Planning collision-free movements of a robot: A systems theory approach
297 -- 298Gamini Gunawardane. A note on planning station loading in flexible manufacturing systems
299 -- 309Kesheng Wang, Terje K. Lien. Structure design and kinematics of a robot manipulator
311 -- 318Manja V. Kircanski, Miomir Vukobratovic, Nenad Kircanski, Aleksandar Timcenko. A new program package for the generation of efficient manipulator kinematic and dynamic equations in symbolic form
319 -- 326Jan Kazimierczak, Barbara Lysakowska. Intelligent adaptive control of a mobile robot: The automaton with an internal and external parameter approach
327 -- 331J. Huddleston, N. R. Burgess, A. D. Walmsley. Sample manipulation using robotic principles
333 -- 338S. T. Rock. Intelligent robot programming: you can't get there from here - a viewpoint
339 -- 341Michel Cotsaftis, Claude Vibet. Consistent impulse conditions in Lagrangian system dynamics
343 -- 0Robin E. J. Chater. Sinclair and the Sunrise Technology by Ian Adamson and Richard Kennedy Penguin Books, London, 1986, 263 pp. (£3.95)
343 -- 344J. A. Rose. Expert Systems by A. Bonnet, J.P. Haton, J.M. Truong-Ngoc Prentice Hall, New York, 1988 (£11.95)
343 -- 0J. A. Rose. Introduction to Lisp and Symbol Manipulation by Sharam Hekmatpour Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, U.K., 1988 (£14.95)
344 -- 345Iain D. Craig. Linguistics: the Cambridge Survey VOLS I-III edited by F.J. Newmeyer Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988 (Vol 1...$49.50; Vol 2... $39.50; Vol 3... $39.50
344 -- 0J. A. Rose. Artifical Intelligence Through Prolog by Neils Rowe Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1988 (£15.95)
344 -- 0J. A. Rose. Prolog, Children and Students edited by Jon Nichol, Jonathan Briggs and Jackie Dean, Kogan Page, London/Nichols Publishing Company, New York, 1988 (£19.95)
345 -- 0Iain D. Craig. Mathematical Methods for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems by Edward R. Dougherty and Charles R. Giardina Prentice-Hall International, Hemel Hempstead, UK, 1988 (£17.95)
345 -- 0J. A. Esrom. International Encyclopedia of Robotics, edited by Richard C. Dorf J. Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK, 1988, 3 volumes, 2046pp., index (£300)
345 -- 346Tony Owen. Automatic Measurement and Control in Woodworking Industry, edited by Branislav Hrùz and Milan Cicel, Number 1 of IFAG Proceedings Series 1988 Persamon Press, Oxford, 1988 (£45.00)
346 -- 0Tony Owen. Theory of Robots, edited by P. Kopacek, I. Troch and K. Desoyer, Number 3 of IFAG Proceedings Series 1988 Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1988 (£65.00)
346 -- 0Tony Owen. Map and Top: Advanced Manufacturing Communications by John Dwyer and Adrian loannou, Kogan Page, London, 1987, 200pp. (£25.00)
346 -- 347J. A. Rose. Structured Induction in Expert Systems, by Alen D. Shapiro Turing Institute Press, Glasgow, Scotland, in association with Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Wokingham, England, 1987, 134 pages including index (£19.95)
347 -- 348J. A. Rose. Expert Systems in Business by Michael L. Barrett and Annabel C. Beerel. Ellis Horwood, Chichester, East Sussex, England, 1988, 258 pages including index (£29.95)
347 -- 0J. A. Rose. Application of Expert Systems, edited by J. Ross Quinlan, Turing Institute Press, Glasgow, Scotland, in association with Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Sydney, Australia, 1987 223 pages including index (£19.95)
347 -- 0J. A. Rose. os/2-A Business Perspective, by Dick Conklin, John Wiley & Sons, New York, U.S.A., 1988, 258pages including index (£17.95)
348 -- 0J. A. Rose. Expert Systems for Business edited by Barry G. Silverman, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massuchusetts, U.S.A., 1987, 446 pages including index (£22.95)
348 -- 0J. A. Esrom. Technology Transfer and Innovation edited by G. Ashworth and A. Thornton, Taylor Graham (Publishing), London, 1988, 188pp. (£22)
348 -- 0Brian L. Davies. Cad/Cam Dictionary edited by Edward Preston et al., George Crawford and Mark Coticckia. Marcel Dekker, USA, 1985, 210pp. ($47.50)
349 -- 0. Erratum

Volume 6, Issue 3

185 -- 195Luc Van Aken, Hendrik Van Brussel. On-line robot trajectory control in joint coordinates by means of imposed acceleration profiles
197 -- 202Guy Jumarie. Trajectory control of manipulators with time varying inertia links
203 -- 212Ali Meghdari, Mohsen Shahinpoor. Three-dimensional flexural-joint stiffness analysis of flexible manipulator arms
213 -- 219Ilija Nikolic. Determination of elastodynamic errors in joints of industrial robots
221 -- 234Paul G. Ranky. A generic tool management system architecture for flexible manufacturing systems (FMS)
235 -- 241Qing Feng, Kazuo Yamafuji. Design and simulation of control systems of an inverted pendulum
243 -- 253Christian Laugier. Les apports respectifs des langages symboliques et de la cao en programmation des robots
257 -- 258Tony Owen. Profitability and Industrial Robots by Gösta Martins and Morgan Svensson IFS (Publications), Bedford, U.K., 11 1987 (Price £28)
257 -- 0Tony Owen. Brains, Machines, and Mathematics by Michael A. Arbib Springer-Verlag, New York, 1987 (Price DM55, circa £18.50)
257 -- 0J. A. Esrom. Scientific and Technical Organizations And Agencies Directory, Second Edition, edited by Margaret Labash Young two volumes, Gale Research Company, Detroit, USA, 1987, 1670 pp., Master Name and Keyword Index ($187 set)
257 -- 0Tony Owen. Standard Handbook Of Industrial Automation edited by Douglas M. Considine and Glenn D. Considine Chapman and Hall Advanced Industrial Technology Series, New York, 01 1987. (£79.50)
258 -- 0Tony Owen. Integrated Product Development by Mogens Myrup Andreasen and Lars Hein IFS (Publications), Bedford, U.K., 05 1987 (Price £39)
258 -- 0Tony Owen. Artificial Intelligence: Implications For CIM edited by Andrew Kusiak (Publications), Bedford, U.K., 11 1987 (Price £49)
258 -- 259Tony Owen. Surface Mount Technology: The Future Of Electronics Assembly by Charles-Henri Mangin and Stephen McClelland, IFS (Publications), Bedford, U.K., 02 1987 (Price £95)
259 -- 0Tony Owen. Tasks, Errors And Mental Models by L.P. Goodstein, H.B. Andersen and S.E. Olsen, Taylor & Francis, London, U.K., 1988 (Price £35)
259 -- 0Tony Owen. Shape Memory Alloys edited by Hiroyasu Funakubo, translated from the Japanese by J.B. Kennedy Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York, 1986 (Price $135.00, circa £75.00)
259 -- 260Iain D. Craig. A Guide To SPSS/PC + by Neil Frude Macmillan Education, Basingstoke, U.K., 1987 (Price £12.00)
259 -- 0Tony Owen. Image Segmentation and Uncertainty by Roland Wilson and Michael Spann Research Studies Press Ltd, Hertfordshire, (and John Wiley & Sons Ltd) U.K., 1988 (Price £35.50)
260 -- 261Tony Owen. Networks and Distributed Computation: Concepts, Tools And Algorithms by M. Raynal North Oxford Academic Publishers, London 1987 (£25.00)
260 -- 0Tony Owen. Seals and Sealing Handbook, 2nd Edition The Trade & Technical Press, Surrey, U.K., 1986 (£66.00)
260 -- 0Iain D. Craig. Misused Statistics (Straight Talking For Twisted Numbers) by A.J. Jaffe and Herbert F. Spirer Dekker, New York & Basel, 1986 (Price $39.95)
261 -- 0Tony Owen. Manufacturing Systems: An Introduction To The Technologies by David J. Williams Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 01 1988 (£16.00 paperback; £32.50 hardback)
261 -- 262Tony Owen. Hydraulic Handbook, 8th Edition The Trade & Technical Press, Surrey, U.K., 506 pp., 1983 (£65.00)
261 -- 0Tony Owen. Industrial Fasteners Handbook, 3rd Edition The Trade & Technical Press, Surrey, U.K., 650 pp., 1985 (£70.00)
262 -- 0Iain D. Craig. Machine Translation Systems edited by Johnathan Slocum Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988 (£9.50 paperback; £27.50 hardback)
262 -- 0Tony Owen. Handbook of Mechanical Power Drives, 3rd Edition The Trade & Technical Press, Surrey, U.K., 680 pp., 1980 (£65.00)
262 -- 263Iain D. Craig. Systemic Text Generation as Problem Solving by Terry Pattern Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988 (£25.00 hardback)

Volume 6, Issue 2

101 -- 105Motoji Yamamoto, Hiroaki Ozaki, Akira Mohri. Planning of manipulator joint trajectories by an iterative method
107 -- 113Joonhong Lim, Dong H. Chyung. Admissible trajectory determination for two cooperating robot arms
115 -- 121M. Y. Ibrahim, C. Cook, K. Tieu. Dynamic behaviour of a SCARA robot with links subjected to different velocity trajectories
123 -- 129Hans-Jürgen Warnecke, B. Frankenhauser, D. G. Gweon, Hyung Suck Cho. Fitting of crimp contacts to connectors using industrial robots supported by vibrating tools
131 -- 139Yoshitaka Suzuki, Shigeru Niinomi, Yoshiyuki Saito, Takuro Hatakeyama, Kazuo Tsuchiya. A new control method for motor vehicles for the severely handicapped
141 -- 148Luc Van Aken, Hendrik Van Brussel. Robot programming languages: the statement of a problem
149 -- 154George N. Sandor, Yongxian Xu, Tzu-Chen Weng. On the elimination of branching in the synthesis of spatial single-loop mechanisms with lower pairs
155 -- 160Edward T. Lee. Pictorial knowledge representation using pictorial semantic networks
163 -- 0P. A. W. Walker. Stochastic Optimal Control - Theory and Application by R.F. Stengel John Wiley, Chichester, UK 1986, 638 pp., (£52.75)
163 -- 164J. A. Esrom. Scientific and Technical Organizations and Agencies Directory, Second Edition edited by M.L. Young, two volumes Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1987, 1670 pp, master name and keyword index ($185)
164 -- 0Tony Owen. Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: The First Decade, edited by William J. Clancey and Edward H. Shortcliffe Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, USA, 1984 (£41.95)
164 -- 165Tony Owen. Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control by John J. Craig Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, USA, 1986, (£17.95, student hardback edition)
164 -- 0Tony Owen. The Fifth Generation - an Annotated Bibliography by Max & Dawn Bramer Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Wokingham, England, 1984 (£11.95)
164 -- 0J. A. Esrom. Systems and Control Encyclopedia edited by M.G. Singh Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1987, eight volumes ($2300/£1600)
165 -- 0Tony Owen. Building Expert Systems, edited by Frederick Hayes-Roth, Donald A. Waterman and Douglas B. Lenat Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, USA, 1983 (£32.95)
165 -- 0Tony Owen. Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer Problem Solving by Judea Pearl Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, USA, 10 1985 (£43.95)
165 -- 0Tony Owen. Artificial Intelligence by Patrick Henry Winston (second edition) Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, USA, July 1984 (£18.95, student hardback edition)
166 -- 0Tony Owen. Visual Reconstruction by Andrew Blake and Andrew Zisserman, The MIT Press, Massachusetts, USA, 1987 (£22.50)
166 -- 0Tony Owen. Spatial Reasoning and Multi-Sensor Fusion, edited by Avi Kak and Su-shing Chen, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los Altos, California 1987 (£22.50)
166 -- 167F. H. George. Computing 85 A Broad Perspective of Current Developments by G. Bucci and G. Valle (Editors) North Holland, pp 361 + ix. ($74)
166 -- 0Tony Owen. Fuzzy Mathematical Techniques with Applications by Abraham Kandel Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, USA 1986 (£37.95)
167 -- 0F. H. George. Thinking Machines - The Search for Artificial Intelligence, by I. Aleksander and P. Burnett, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 208 pp 1987 (£15)
167 -- 168Tony Owen. Machine Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering for Robotic Applications, edited by Andrew K. C. Wong and Alan Pugh, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987 (Price DM 145) (c. £49)
168 -- 169Tony Owen. Expert Judgement and Expert Systems, edited by Jeryl L. Mumpower, Lawrence D. Phillips, Ortwin Renn and V.R.R. Uppuluri, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987 (Price DM 98) (c. £33)
168 -- 0Tony Owen. Modelling, Robustness and Sensitivity Reduction in Control Systems, edited by Ruth F. Curtain, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987 (Price DM 148) (c. £50)
169 -- 0Tony Owen. The International Robot Industry Report, by John Mortimer and Brian Rooks, IFS (Publications) Ltd, Bedford, U.K., 04 1987, (Price £65)
169 -- 0Tony Owen. Automated Guided Vehicle Systems, edited by R.H. Hollier, IFS (Publications) Ltd, Bedford, U.K., 02 1987 (Price £39)
169 -- 170J. A. Rose. Essential Lisp by John R. Anderson, Albert T. Corbett and Brian J. Reiser, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and Wokingham, England, 1987 (£13.95)
170 -- 0J. A. Rose. Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence by Ivan Bratko, both published by Addison-Wesley Publishers, Wokingham, England, 1986, (both at £19.95)
170 -- 0J. A. Rose. Prolog Programming by Claudia Marcus (Arity Corporation), Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and Wokingham, England, 1986 (£22.00)
170 -- 171Iain D. Craig. Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing edited by Lawrence Davis Pitman, London, 1987 (£19.95)
171 -- 172J. A. Rose. Looking At Lisp by Tony Hasemer, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company I., Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and Wokingham, England, 1984 (£11.95)
171 -- 0Iain D. Craig. Distributed Artificial Intelligence edited by Michael N. Huhns Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Pitman, London, 1987
172 -- 0J. A. Rose. Simulating Computer Systems by Myron H. MacDougall The MIT Press, Cambridage, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and London, England, 1987 (£29.25)

Volume 6, Issue 1

7 -- 12M. E. Bowman, Andrew K. Forrest. Visual detection of differential movement: applications to robotics
13 -- 21Guy Jumarie. On the use of deformation matrices in artificial vision Systems
23 -- 30Kah Bin Lim, Yoon-Song Chong. Low cost tactile gripper using silicone rubber sensor array
31 -- 34R. Andrew Russell. Thermal sensor for object shape and material constitution
35 -- 40Enrique Palma-Villalon, Pierre Dauchez. World representation and path planning for a mobile robot
41 -- 46Hiroaki Ozaki, Akira Mohri. Synthesis of a minimum-time manipulator trajectories with geometric path constraints using time scaling
47 -- 51G. Hurteau, Neil F. Stewart. Distance calculation for imminent collision indication in a robot System simulation
53 -- 62W. K. Chung, Hyung Suck Cho. Sensitivity analysis of balanced robotic manipulators
63 -- 69Veljko Potkonjak. Contribution to the dynamics and control of robots having elastic transmissions
71 -- 79Jack Baranson. Prospects for introducing computer-integrated manufacturing in the USSR - a viewpoint
83 -- 0Tony Owen. Engineering Foundations Of Robotics by Francis N-Nagy and Andras Siegler Prentice-Hall International, Hempstead, UK, 1987 (£34.95, hardback; £14.95, paperback)
83 -- 84Tony Owen. Ai In The 1980s And Beyond: An Mit Survey, edited by W. Eric, L. Grimson and Ramesh S. Patil MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987 (£22.50)
84 -- 0Tony Owen. Vision, Brain and Cooperative Computation edited by Michael A. Arbib and Allen R. Hanson MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987 (£58.50)
84 -- 0Tony Owen. Thinking Machines: The Search For Artificial Intelligence by Igor Aleksander and Piers Burnett Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987 (£15.00)
84 -- 0Tony Owen. Proceedings Of The Fourth International Workshop On Machine Learning at University of California at Irvine Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Oxford, 06 1987 (£22.50)
84 -- 85P. L. Primrose. Microelectronics, Automation And Employment In The Automobile Industry edited by S. Watanabe John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1987 (£24.50)
85 -- 0P. L. Primrose. Social and Labour Effects Of Computeraided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacture by K.H. Ebel and E. Ulrich. International Labour Office, Geneva, 1987 (SwF 15.00)
85 -- 0Peter B. Scott. Proceedings of the Third International Conference On Lasers In Manufacturing edited by A. Quinzer 392 pages, black/white photographs and Une drawings IFS (publications) Milton Keynes, 1986 ($99.00)
85 -- 86Peter B. Scott. Design Automation by Robert Smith and Steve Shapiro 193 pages, black/white photographs and line figures, Prentice-Hall, Hemel Hempstead, 1986 (£50.30)
86 -- 0Peter B. Scott. Industrial Robots: Computer Interfacing And Control by Wesley E. Snyder 325 pages, black/white photographs and line drawings, Prentice-Hall 1985 (£15.95)
86 -- 0Peter B. Scott. Cad And Robotics In Architecture And Construction 287 pages, black/white photographs and line drawings, copublished by Kogan Page, London, 1986 (£37.50)
86 -- 87Peter B. Scott. Practical Robotics: Systems, Interfacing And Applications by William Burns and Janet Worthington 296 pages, black/white photographs and line drawings, Prentice-Hall, Hemel Hempstead, 1986 (£34.25)
87 -- 0Peter B. Scott. Conference Proceedings Of The 17th International Symposium On Industrial Robots Black/white photographs, line drawings, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, 1987
87 -- 0Peter B. Scott. Software For Industrial Automation by the Economic Commission for Europe 208 pages, line drawings, United Nations Publication, Geneva, 1987
87 -- 0Peter B. Scott. E'ssembly Black/white photographs and line drawings, co-published by Morgan Grampion and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, 1986
87 -- 0Peter B. Scott. The Changing Face Of Manufacturing edited by J. A. Collins 355 pages, black/white photographs and line drawings, copublished by British Robot Association and Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986 (£25.00 for members; £48.00 for nonmembers)
88 -- 0Peter B. Scott. Industrial Robot Applications by E. Appleton and D. J. Williams 229 pages, black/white photographs and line drawings, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1987 (£14.50, paperback; £30.00, hardback)
88 -- 0Peter B. Scott. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Robot Vision and Sensory Controls edited by M. Briot 248 pages, black/white photographs and line drawings, published by IFS. Bedford, 1986 (£49.00)
88 -- 89Tony Owen. RoManSy 6, edited by A. Morecki, G. Blanchi and K. Kedzior Kogan Page, London, 1987 (£45.00)
88 -- 0Tony Owen. Direct Drive Robots: Theory And Practice, by Haruhiko Asada and Kamal Youcef-Toumi The MIT Press, Massachusetts, 1987 (£26.95)
89 -- 90Alex M. Andrew. Reasoning about Actions and Plans: Proceedings of the 1986 Workshop, edited by Michael P. Georgeff and Amy L. Lansky Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, California, vi + 425 pp. (£24.95)
90 -- 0Alex M. Andrew. The Representation Of Knowledge And Belief (Arizona Colloquium in Cognition series, no 1), edited by Myles Brand and Robert M. Harnish University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1986. xviii + 368 pp. ($39.95)