This 2-volume work represents the proceedings of the First European Workshop on Fault Diagnostics, Reliability and Re- lated Knowledge-Based Approaches held in the Island of Rho- des, Greece (August 3l-September 3, 1986). This Workshop was organized in the framework of a joint research project spon- sored by the Commission of the European Communi ties under the Stimulation Action Programme. The principal aim of the Workshop was to bring together people working on the numeric and symbolic (knowledge-based) treatment of reliability and fault diagnosis problems, in order to promote the...

Long ago~ the welfare of a sooiety used to depend heavily on the skill and dedioation of its oraftsmen - the miller~ the blaok- smith~ the oobbler and the tailor. These oraftsmen aoquired their skill by a long and poorly paid apprentioeship to some master of their oraft. They learned by imitation and experienoe~ and by tri- al and error. They did not read books or study soienoe~ they knew nothing of the theory of their subjeot~ the geometry of their ru- dimentary drawings~ nor the mathematios underlying their primitive oaloulations. They oould not explain how or why they used their methods;...

Der Band Autonome Mobile Systeme 1999 gibt einen Uberblick uber aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Gebiet autonomer mobiler und/oder robotischer Systeme. Dabei werden Fragestellungen zu Sensorsystemen, Umgebungsmodellierung, Lokalisierung und Navigation von mobilen Robotern inkl. Laufrobotern sowie der Planung und Ausfuhrung von Manipulationsaufgaben behandelt."