Showing papers in "Computers in Industry in 1986"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review literature and discuss both the major characteristics of FMS and the contemporary decision support systems that have emerged to address the planning and control problems inherent in FMS.

TL;DR: It is shown that the language LOTOS, developed by the International Organisation for Standardization, is suitable for this purpose and an architecture of a workcell comprising ‘workstations’, a ’workcell controller’ and a ‘transport system’ is specified using LOTOS.

TL;DR: The investigation provides an insight into the inherent properties of the Bezier curve and surface scheme making the use of rational functions for curve/surface representation and design easier.

TL;DR: The pattern recognition model of monitoring problems and its use in general purpose monitoring systems are discussed and a realized on-line monitoring system with pattern recognition facilities is realized.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is used either to generate standard values for the monitoring parameters, or to derive a systematic diagnostic algorithm, where all possible combinations of failure causes are obtained by solving the simultaneous Boolean equations derived from the model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a two-dimensional computer control model with discrete state space form for the slab reheating furnaces, which gives the temperature profile of all slabs or the arbitrarily slab in the furnace by means of the real-time knowledge of working conditions.

TL;DR: A leak detection method by intensive computer data processing and a flaw detection methods by a mobile inspection robot to detect leakage and flaws on pipelines are described.

TL;DR: In this paper, a shape-preserving interpolative hyperbolic spline based on Schweikert's spline in tension is presented. But this spline is not a cubic interpolant.

TL;DR: In this article, the main tasks of monitoring systems for boring and milling production cells are discussed, and a new approach is given to arrange the process and the condition monitoring tasks.

TL;DR: A robot programming system for industrial applications that generates information of robot motion from the task description written in a high-level language and verifies the generated motion with simulation based on models.

TL;DR: The structure and strategy of the computer assisted diagnosis system are shown and data structure is described by an effective concept of a uniform parametric membership function.

TL;DR: A set of independent software modules for robot motoring control, low level sensoring processing, kinematics simulation and world model construction has been merged in a software environment whose implementation is based on the operating system Accent and can be accessed through an advanced graphics workstation.

TL;DR: The use of a hardware Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) convulutional filter is shown to provide processing times commensurate with industrial requirements and a novel pre-processing transducer applicable to this area is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a modular, flexible monitoring and diagnosis system has been developed for a variety of manufacturing equipment and tasks, and its consequent simplicity of programming and ease of use make it an effective aid to process and machine diagnosis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model for yield prediction and associated cost for printed circuit pack (PCP) is given, and an application for a PCP and conclusions are presented, based on which yield prediction is important to enable prediction of full scale production based on product design, manufacturing processes and production methods.

TL;DR: It is found that, although general quantitative results cannot be obtained, the method does produce a good indication of controller robustness] for the plant investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how these companies can upgrade and automate their existing facilities at a minimal and viable cost, and propose a new method for the selection of the best alternative using the data base.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the development of conception, simulation and visualization tools for rigid body mechanisms, accounting for member deformations in the dynamic behavior of mechanical systems, from the application of an updated Lagrangian method to finite element discretizations.

TL;DR: In this article, a method of designing transport systems is proposed which should ensure that these systems can indeed play their vital role in the establishment of co-operation of the parts, and the Reference Model of internal transport system is a major aid in this design method.

TL;DR: If an automatic diagnostic system has to compete with the capabilities of human testers, parallel computation is an equivalent approach that can be applied to automatic testing and failure detection.

TL;DR: An interactive personal computer program package based on the acoustic plane wave model has been elaborated, using graph and matrix interpretation of the system, tree-structure pipeline networks are handled by generalized algorithms which make it possible to realize pulsation calculations on two levels.

TL;DR: This method utilizes a single look-up table and a hardware counter for generating the firing pulse for generatingThe firing pulse in the microprocessor based ignition control for an automobile.

TL;DR: A different approach is presented which is driven by solid modeling, where a common three-dimensional representation coordinates the activities of early processing modules.

TL;DR: In this article, the design of a three-link robot arm engaged in a given work space and serving workpieces at two different levels is discussed and geometric design parameters are discussed.

TL;DR: The paper centers around the description of selected problems connected with producing the software for such a monitoring system, and attention is also paid to hardware problems of the computerized on-line system.

TL;DR: The synchronization tools of the according real-time operating system REX are described, supporting parallel co-operating jobs on different subsystems that compare or vote on process-output-signals.

TL;DR: Connexions among researches on biomechanics and the design and realization of mechanical hands for robots and the optimized determination of parameters of models are dealt with.

TL;DR: It is shown how a low cost personal computer, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, may be used in a high technology and sophisticated application, such as a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) system for a lathe.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is presented according to which robot-actions and the activities in manufacturing cells can be designed, and the need is stressed for simulation environments so that it is possible to test the design thoroughly on the basis of actually observed sensor-data before the programs are taken into production.

TL;DR: An approach to robot programming that supports task-oriented specifications of manipulation activities by using plan formation and program generation techniques to transform task specifications into executable programs for various robots.