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Industrial Intelligent Robots

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It has been believed for a long time since the birth of the industrial robot that the only task it could perform was to play back simple motions that had been taught in advance. At the beginning of the 21st century, the industrial robot was born again as the industrial intelligent robot, which performs highly complicated tasks like skilled workers on a production site, mainly due to the rapid advancement in vision and force sensors. The industrial intelligent robot has recently been a key technology to solve issues that todayʼs manufacturing industry is faced with, including the decreasing number of skilled workers and demands for reducing manufacturing costs and delivery time. In this chapter, the latest technology trends in its element technologies such as vision and force sensors are introduced with some of its applications such as the robot cell, which has succeeded in drastically reducing machining costs.

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Abbreviations

2-D:

two-dimensional

3-D:

three-dimensional

CCD:

charge-coupled device

CNC:

computer numerical control

MIT:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT:

miles in-trail

NC:

numerical control

PC:

personal computer

SCADA:

supervisory control and data acquisition

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  1. Fanuc Ltd., Oshino-mura, 401-0597, Yamanashi, Japan

    Yoshiharu Inaba

  2. Fanuc Ltd., Oshino-mura, 401-0597, Yamanashi, Japan

    Shinsuke Sakakibara

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Correspondence to Yoshiharu Inaba or Shinsuke Sakakibara .

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  1. PRISM Center, and School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 315 N. Grant Street, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Shimon Y. Nof

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Inaba, Y., Sakakibara, S. (2009). Industrial Intelligent Robots. In: Nof, S. (eds) Springer Handbook of Automation. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78831-7_21

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