After over two decades of research in the field of assembly and task planning, an IEEE
Technical Committee on Assembly and Task Planning has been created. One of the first …

In this article, we present Spar (simultaneous planner for assembly robots), an implemented
system that reasons about high-level operational goals, geometric goals, and uncertainty …

The diagnostic step of the error recovery process in manufacturing systems is discussed,
and an algorithm for constructing and pruning a failure propagation tree is formalized. The …

Modern computer‐controlled robots typically fail at their tasks whenever they encounter an
error, no matter how minor. The physical environment of a typical assembly robot is too …

In this paper, a control theoretic model is developed for analyzing the dynamics of
distributed cooperative control systems for manufacturing job shops with multiple processing …

The implementation of intelligent error recovery in a robot system imposes special
requirements on the real time operation of the robot. This paper examines four issues raised …

An approach to handling error recovery for mobile robots is proposed. To understand the
way in which detection, error analysis, and mission insertion are carried out, the …

The automatic failure recovery of assembly tasks in robot workcells is discussed. An efficient
scheme for the design of autonomous workcell system management systems is presented …

This paper presents a new approach to error detection during motion in contact under
uncertainty for robotic manufacturing tasks. In this approach, artificial neural networks are …

This paper presents current trends in robot programming. The open problems with current
robot programming systems are outlined and indications for solutions are given. Since …