The cost of designing and fabricating fixtures can amount to 10-20% of the total
manufacturing system costs. To reduce manufacturing costs, a fixture system is designed to …

We present a novel approach to perform object-independent grasp synthesis from depth
images via deep neural networks. Our generative gras** convolutional neural network …

Mobile robots can use geometric or topological maps of their environment to navigate
reliably. Automatic creation of such maps is still an unrealized goal, especially in …

Vision guided robotics has been one of the major research issue for more than three
decades. The more recent technological development facilitated the advancement in the …

Background In the continuous world view, images are modeled as functions on a domain⊂
Rn. Geometric entities like curves and surfaces are manifolds, which can be described as …

Industrial robots have been utilized for factory automation due to their high repeatability.
Along with the development of visual servo and machine learning techniques, various vision …

This book starts with a short recapitulation on basic concepts, common to any types of robots
(serial, tree structure, parallel, etc.), that are also necessary for computation of the dynamic …

The use of a camera in a robot control loop can be performed with two types of architecture:
for eye-in-hand camera when it rigidly mounted on the robot end-effector; and for eye-to …

Program slicing is a viable method to restrict the focus of a task to specific sub-components
of a program. Examples of applications include debugging, testing, program …