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Advances in Robotics and Automation: Historical Perspectives

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Historical perspectives are given about the impressive progress in automation. Automation, including robotics, has evolved by becoming useful and affordable. Methods have been developed to analyze and design better automation, and those methods have also been automated. The most important issue in automation to make every effort to paying attention to all the details.

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Abbreviations

PTS:

predetermined time standard

ROBCAD:

robotics computer aided design

RPTS:

robot predetermined time standard

RTM:

resin transfer molding

RTM:

robot time & motion method

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  1. System Science Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yukio Hasegawa Prof.

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  1. PRISM Center, and School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 315 N. Grant Street, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Shimon Y. Nof

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Hasegawa, Y. (2009). Advances in Robotics and Automation: Historical Perspectives. In: Nof, S. (eds) Springer Handbook of Automation. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78831-7_1

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