This paper is concerned with the actual implementation of a machining laser robot. The interactions between workpieces and beams over the various possible tasks and the various optimisation criteria are so complicated that no general model is available. A "learning-by-doing" iterative process based on a coding, by human experts, of the decision system under the form of "behaviour rules", is proposed as a solution when the device is attempted to be given some autonomous behaviour. The example of a restricted experimental variant, early stage in the robot life, is more detailed.

Date Published: 17 January 1985
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 0521, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, (17 January 1985); doi: 10.1117/12.946205

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0521:
Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision
David P. Casasent; Ernest L. Hall, Editor(s)