Robotics and real-time control :

DOCUMENTS DISTRIBUTED DURING LECTURES


This is a list of the various documents I handed out in lectures in 1997, in an approximation to chronological order of distribution in 1998 ( down to the dividing line, anyway ). I think it's complete. I'll mark them as "issued" if and approximately when I distribute them in 1998.

Most are retrievable as pdf files on request, but some are fraudulent; all you get is a skeleton, without pictures. That's because I did a lot of cutting and pasting by traditional means in 1997 to keep up with events. I had hoped that I'd get proper machine-readable copies of everything during this year, but it's clear that constraints on my time mean that this isn't going to happen. ( If you need a copy with the real pictures on it, ask me - I still have some. ) If I change any of the files from the 1997 versions, I'll ( eventually ) mark them as "changed".

TitleChangedIssued in 1998
773 Background.renamed as -no
773 What is control ? yes
773 What is real-time ?yesyes
773 Sorts of real-time.yesyes
773 What is control computing ?yesyes
773 1132 printer.yesyes
773 Transducers.yesyes
773 Open loop control.yesyes
773 Control theory.noyes
773 Control theory principles.noyes
773 PID controllers.noyes
773 Analogue hardware.yesyes
773 Neural networks.noyes
773 Fuzzy control.noyes
773 Digital control systems - a case study.yesyes
773 Programmable logic controllers.yesyes
773 Hierarchical systems.yesyes
773 Adaptive control.yesyes
773 Communications.yesyes
773 Machine tools.yesyes
773 Numerically Controlled tools.yesyes
773 Flexible manufacturing systems.noyes
773 FMS in action.noyes
773 Group technology.noyes
773 People and machines.yesyes
773 Psychology.noyes
773 Interfaces for people.noyes
773 Scheduling - Leinbaugh.nono
Designing the document factory. yes
773 System design.noyes
773 Programme design.yesyes
773 Testing.noyes
773 Control system architecture. yes
773 Scheduling tasks.yesyes
773 Rate-monotonic analysis.noyes
773 Real-time languages.yesyes
773 PFL.yesyes
773 PDL.noyes
773 Things that go wrong.noyes
773 The Therac accidents.noyes
773 Fault handling.noyes
773 Fault recovery.noyes
773 Intelligent failure management.noyes
773 Intelligent diagnosis and recovery - an example.noyes
773 Robots.yesyes
773 Robots and people.yesyes
773 Controlling robots.yesyes
773 Robot geometry.yesyes
773 Step by step to robot control.yesyes
773 Perception.yesyes
773 Compliance. yes
773 Robot programming. yes
773 Robot programming languages.yesyes
773 Subsumption architecture.noyes


Alan Creak,
May, 1998.


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