This is the first text of a series that focuses on developments in robotics and intelligent systems, and provides insight, guidance, and specific techniques for those concerned with the design and implementation of robotics and intelligent system applications.
Series Preface v1 Abstraction and Representation of Serial Robotic Tasks 1Barry R. Fox2 Automated Manufacturing Networks 37J.R. Pimental3 Computer Networking for Manufacturing Systems 78Asok Ray4 HAL: A New Robotic Programming Language 106John J. Fox, Soundar R.T. Kumara, S.S. Iyengar, and Jacob Rubinovitz5 On the Structure of the Minimum-Time Control Law for Robotic Manipulators 136Yaobin Chen and Alan A. Desrochers6 Symbolic Automation for the Direct Kinematics Model of the Robotic Manipulator 182C.Y Ho and Jen Sriwattanathamma7 Minimally Ordered Sets 215Barry R. Fox8 Communication in Automated Manufacturing Systems 245Sunderesh S. Heragu and A. Kusiak9 Multifinger Gripping 270Anthony de Sam LazaroAuthor Index 298Subject Index 303