This paper describes recent work on manipulation strategies that rely on “coarse-fine” robot hardware and direct sensing of part-workpiece relationships. The experiments reported use an extremely precise, high-bandwidth planar “wrist” and an industrial vision system to perform accurate alignment of small parts. The system architecture, experimental hardware, and programming methods employed are all discussed.
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Taylor et al. (1985) studied this question.