"After digesting the contents of this book, readers will be left in no doubt that robot vision and its application to robot technology is in its infancy ... Only with relentless pursuit will second generation robotics become an industrial reality by incorporating robot vision and other sensory methods as an essential part of the specfication"--Page viii.

Second generation robotics / Alan Pugh -- Computer vision in industry / Lothar Rossol -- Processing of binary images / P.W. Kitchin and A. Pugh -- Recognising and locating partially visible objects : the local-feature-focus method / R.C. Bolles and R.A. Cain -- The coupling of a workpiece recognition system with an industrial robot / G. Nehr and P. Martini -- Evaluating vision system performance / C.A. Rosen and G.J. Gleason -- Adaptive visual servo control of robots / Arthur C. Sanderson and Lee E. Weiss -- Use of a TV camera system in closed-loop position control of mechanisms / P.Y. Coulon and M. Nougaret -- Towards a flexible vision system / O.D. Faugeras [and others] -- The use of taper light beam for object recognition / Dai Wei and M. Gini -- Present industrial use of vision sensors for robot guidance / Philippe Villers -- A visual sensor for arc-welding robots / Takao Bamba [and others] -- Vision guided robot system for arc welding / Ichiro Masaki, Maurice J. Dunne, and Hideo Toda. (cont.) Progress in visual feedback for robot arc-welding of thin sheet steel / W.F. Clocksin [and others] -- Intelligent assembly robot / Michinaga Kohno, Hiroshi Horino and Mitsunobu Isobe -- Simple assembly under visual control / P. Saraga and B.M. Jones -- A robot system which acquires cylindrical workpieces from bins / Robert B. Kelley [and others] -- Flexible assembly module with vision controlled placement device / W.B. Heginbotham [and others] -- Vision system sorts castings at General Motors Canada / Richard D. Baumann and David A. Wilmhurst -- Pattern recognition in the factory : an example / Jean-Paul Hermann -- A CCTV camera-controlled painter / E. Johnston -- Forging : feasible robotic techniques / R. Kelley [and others] -- Automatic chocolate decoration by robot vision / A.J. Cronshaw -- OMS-- vision system / P.F. Hewkin and H.-J. Fuchs -- The PUMA/VS-100 robot vision system / B. Carlisle [and others]. (cont.) S.A.M. opto-electronic picture sensor in a flexible manufacturing assembly system / W. Brune and K. Bitter -- Vision system separates gathering from processing / G.I. Robertson -- Westinghouse grey scale vision system for real-time control and inspection / Arkady G. Makhlin and Glenn E. Tinsdale.