1 Introduction. - Robotic Practice 10; Exploiting Mathematics 11; Making Sense of Sensors 12; Computing for Design 13; Future Directions 14. - I: Sensor Information Processing. - 2 A method for grasping randomly oriented objects using touch sensing. - 3 Method of contour recognition. - 4 The design of sensors for a mobile teleoperator robot. - II: Mathematical Concerns. - 5 Constrained average path tracking for industrial robots. - 6 The application of spline functions to trajectory generation for computer-controlled manipulators. - 7 Kinematic equations of robot manipulators. - 8 Solution of kinematic equations for robot manipulators. - III: Practical Concerns. - 9 A strategy to achieve an assembly by means of an inaccurate flexible robot. - 10 Trajectory planning for a multi-arm robot in an assembly task. - 11 Cooperation of two manipulators in assembly tasks. - IV: Computer Aids to Robot Design. - 12 A CAD system for programming and simulating robots' actions. - 13 The development of a suite of programs for the analysis of mechanisms. Language: English