From its inception in 1983, ESPRIT (the European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology) has aimed at improving the competitiveness of European industry and providing it with the technology needed for the 1990s. Esprit Project 623, on which most of the work presented in this book is based, was one of the key projects in the ESPRIT area, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). From its beginnings in 1985, it brought together a team of researchers from industry, research institutes and universities to explore and develop a critical stream of advanced...

Calibration is playing an increasingly important role in industrial robotics. Higher accuracy demands are being placed on flexible assembly and manufacturing systems which in turn require robot manufacturers to produce higher quality precision robots.

Yom 28.-30. Oktober 1976 fand auf Einladung des Max-Planck-Instituts fUr auslandisches offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht in Heidelberg ein Kollo- quium tiber Probleme des Grundrechtsschutzes in Europa statt. Die Vortrage und Diskussionsbeitrage des Kolloquiums werden hiermit veroffentlicht. Bei den Vortragen handelt es sich urn Kurzreferate, die in die Diskussion einge- ftibrt haben. Zusiitzlich zu dem mtindlich Vorgetragenen enthalt dieser Band Eckart Klein (S. 133), eine zusammenfassende einen erganzenden Bericht von Wtirdigung des Kolloquiums (S. 205) und eine Auswahlbibliographie (S....

From its inception in 1983, ESPRIT (the European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology) has aimed at improving the competitiveness of European industry and providing it with the technology needed for the 1990s. Esprit Project 623, on which most of the work presented in this book is based, was one of the key projects in the ESPRIT area, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). From its beginnings in 1985, it brought together a team of researchers from industry, research institutes and universities to explore and develop a critical stream of advanced...