The prospects for sensory arrays and microprocessing computers in manufacturing industry

A brief survey which discusses the most relevant industrial robot projects incorporating sensory feedback, provides a background for the main contribution. A cheap and reliable sensory system which can be readily adapted to the task of component part orientation, is seen as an immediate need. Line-scan cameras coupled with a microprocessing computer are the basic ingredients of the proposals which are founded on a considerable history of intelligent automation research at the University of Nottingham.