Research activities on robotics at the Electrotechnical Laboratory
Abstract
Various robotics research activities carried out at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Japan are discussed. The history of robotics research, which has been going on since the late 1960s as a part of artificial-intelligence research is described. Consideration is given to the full-scale robot system called ETL-ROBOT Mk. 1, to the carpenter robot, to the intelligent locomotive-handling robot, to the flexible finger, and to the hand-eye robot. The present aspect of the research in relation to past results is examined and includes the development of new robot systems such as a vision system based on a three-dimensional model, an interactive modeling system, a direct-drive manipulator, a robot vision language, and a language-aided robotic teleoperation system. Research themes planned for the near future include manipulation techniques, sensor techniques, autonomous robot control techniques, advanced teleoperation techniques, and system totalizing techniques.
- Publication:
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Journal of Robotic Systems
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985JRoS....2..145K
- Keywords:
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- Japan;
- Research And Development;
- Robotics;
- Artificial Intelligence;
- Computer Vision;
- Dynamic Control;
- Laboratories;
- Manipulators;
- Pattern Recognition;
- Programming Languages;
- Robot Control;
- Teleoperators;
- Three Dimensional Models;
- Engineering (General)