Publisher's Synopsis
This book contains the proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Industrial Robots which was organized by: the International Federation of Robotics; Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Artlagenbau (VDMA); Fraunhofer Institut fur Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung; and Deutsche Messe AG.;It presents the latest achievements in robotics technology, covering control performance, man-machine interfaces, programming techniques and also technical aspects of sub-systems, such as sensors and grippers. Over recent years this conference has been increasingly involved in other fields of robotics applications and this book contains a significant number of papers concemed with service robots and robots in new application areas.