This NATO workshop volume presents research results on sensor-based robot manipulators in the areas of sensor fusion and integration, sensory information processing, and parallel algorithms and architectures.

Inhalt
I. Sensor Fusion and Integration.- An Integrated Sensor System for Robots.- Robot Tactile Perception.- Uncertainty in Robot Sensing.- II. Vision Algorithms and Architectures.- Robotic Vision Knowledge System.- Algorithm for Visible Surface Pattern Generation a Tool for 3D Object Recognition.- Knowledge-Based Robot Workstation: Supervisor Design.- Robot/Vision System Calibrations in Automated Assembly.- III. Neural Networks, Parallel Algorithms and Control Architectures.- A Unified Modeling of Neural Networks Architectures.- Practical Neural Computing for Robots: Prospects for Real-Time Operation.- Self-Organizing Neuromorphic Architecture for Manipulator Inverse Kinematics.- Robotics Vector Processor Architecture for Real-Time Control.- On the Parallel Algorithms for Robotic Computations.- Report on the Group Discussion about Neural Networks in Robotics.- List of Lecturers and Participants.