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Robots, as flexible machines capable of performing different tasks, are being used more and more in industry, but for some tasks (assembling mechanical parts, for example), it appears that in order to operate successfully robots need feedback information about the state of environment. The necessity for increasing robot adaptability demands the introduction of sensors’ information in control algorithms together with elements of artificial intelligence to gain a higher degree of independence of the robot. In practice, only positional sensors are used as an obligatory part of a robot, with the purpose of feeding the robot control system with information about the state of the robot itself—internal coordinates and their time derivatives.
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Djurović, M. (1989). Sensors in Robotics. In: Introduction to Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82997-0_7
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