Performance evaluation of programmable robots and manipulators

Abstract

The Workshop brought together representatives of industry, academic institutions and government agencies, including the potential designers, suppliers and users of a new generation of manipulators and robots which include varying degrees of control by both people and computers. The Conference was motivated by the lack of common bases for com- paring one such device with another in terms of performance, or one task with another in terms of how well a given device will perform it.