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23 May 1983 Sensor Robotics In The National Bureau Of Standards
James S. Albus, Anthony J. Barbera, M. L. Fitzgerald
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Abstract
For robots to operate effectively in the partially unconstrained environment of manufacturing, they must be equipped with control systems that have sensory capabilities. This paper describes a control system that consists of three parallel cross-coupled hierarchies. First is a control hierarchy which decomposes high level tasks into primitive actions. Second is a sensory processing hierarchy that analyses data from the environment. Third is a world model hierarchy which generates expectations. These are compared against the sensory data at each level of the sensory processing hierarchy. Deviations between expected and observed data are used by the the control hierarchy to modify its task decomposition strategies so as to generate sensory-interactive goal-directed behavior. This system has been implemented on a research robot, using a network of microcomputers and a real-time vision system mounted on the robot wrist.
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James S. Albus, Anthony J. Barbera, and M. L. Fitzgerald "Sensor Robotics In The National Bureau Of Standards", Proc. SPIE 0360, Robotics and Industrial Inspection, (23 May 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934079
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

Control systems

Robots

Sensory processes

Computing systems

Standards development

Data modeling

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