Advances in Robotic Guidance and Visual Servoing (Technical Insights)

Publication Date	March 2008
Publisher	Frost & Sullivan
Product Type	Report
Pages
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	FRS00644

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Summary

This research service gives a detailed assessment of emerging trends in robotic guidance and visual servoing.

Content

Executive summary
- Scope and methodology
  - Overview
  - Scope of the research service
  - Research methodology
- Key research findings
  - Technology snapshot
  - Key technologies and innovations
  - Analyst insights
Robotic guidance and visual servoing--technology primer
- Technology snapshot
  - Visual servoing
  - Approaches to visual servoing
- Technology analysis
  - Traditional versus modern vision-guided robotic systems
  - Implementing a successful robotic guidance application
Applications viewpoint
- Overview of applications
  - Overview
  - Other application segments
- Assessment of application areas
  - Automotive production lines
  - Container industry
  - Pharmaceutical industry
  - Printing industry
  - Packaging industry
  - Food and beverage industry
Technology impact and adoption factor analysis
- Technology adoption factor analysis
  - Analysis of technology drivers
  - Analysis of technology challenges
- Technology impact analysis
  - Technology trends
  - Technology roadmap
Strategic analysis and worldwide innovation assessment
- Strategic analysis
  - Growth strategy
  - Swot analysis
- Worldwide innovation assessment
  - Us
  - Europe
  - Australia
  - Korea; japan; and china
Global technology developments
- Corporate research
  - Motosight for bin-picking applications–motoman inc.--usa
  - Robotic vision cell for inline inspection--belden machine corporation--usa
  - Vision-based wafer pre-alignment--cognex corporation--usa
  - Automotive paint system using vision guided robot--ford motor company--usa
  - Lettuce inspection using vision guided robot–fanuc robotics--uk
  - Trueview–vision guided robotic system--abb robotics inc.--usa
- University research
  - Waste management using vision-guided robots--idaho national laboratory--usa
  - Obstacle detection in mobile robots using single camera stereo vision--bob jones university--usa
  - Autonomous robots mimic biological vision--university of buffalo--usa
  - Internet-based manufacturing using robot and vision systems–ajou university--south korea
  - Robot tracking with high-speed visual servoing–university of strasbourg--france
  - Smart robot cameras for automated inspection–university of cincinati--usa
  - Slip prediction using visual information--california institute of technology-usa
  - Tracking of human heads using robotic vision–shanghai jiao tong university--china
Patent analysis and key contacts
- Patent analysis
  - Recent patents
  - Patent analysis–worldwide
- Key contacts
  - University contacts
  - Corporate contacts
Decision support database
- Database tables
  - Consumer electronics contribution to electronics industry--world (2002 to 2012)
  - World electronic components contribution to electronics industry (2002 to 2012)
  - Manufacturing enterprises worldwide (2002 to 2012)
  - Contribution of manufacturing industry to gdp--world (2002 to 2012)