Computer-Based Automation, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985

It has been recognized that productivity improvement is an important issue of the 80' s. It is regarded as the most efficient way to improve national economy and to enrich the quality of life. The key to productivity improvement is advanced automation, especially computer-integrated automation for engineering design and office operations as well as manufacturing processes. This is the theme of 1983 International Conference on Advanced Automation, ICAA-83. This book contains the articles which are the revised and updated version of the papers presented at the ICAA-83 Conference. Traditionally, automation is synonymous with mechanization; but this Conference has treated automation from a different point of view. We consider automation as a process to unify various automated information processing systems for performing business, administration, design, engineering and manufacturing functions, in addition to the traditional fixed automation in production. In other words, design automation and office automation form an inte­ gral part of factory automation to accomplish comprehensive computer-integrated manufacturing and production. In engineering and manufacturing today, quality design and high productivity are synonymous with the use of computers, robots, expert systems, and other computer-based technologies. The greater the degree of computer-based automation exploited and implemented, the greater a nation's ability to survive in tomorrow's extremely competitive world market.

Computer-Aided Design.- Automatic Generation of Knowledge Base from Electronic Diagrams for Computer-Aided Design.- CAD Application on PC Board Design.- SPICE-2P: A SPICE-2 Incorporated with a Partition Scheme.- A CAD Program for VLSI Placement and Routing.- BRUTUS: An Interactive Graphic Editor for IC Layout.- PLAMG: An Automatic PLA Minimizer and Generator for VLSI System Design.- CAD of Truss Structures by the Interactive Simplex Method.- Low Cost CAD/CAM System for Machine Parts.- Computer-Assisted Methods for Defining 3D Geometric Structure of Mechanical Parts.- Computer-Aided Finite Element Analysis: Interfacing Symbolic and Numerical Computational Techniques.- A Theoretical Proposal for a CASD System Extending Jackson’s Method for Program Construction.- Robotics.- Coordinating Multiple Robot Arms to Increase Productivity.- Design of a Computer Aided Robot Design System.- A CAD Tool for the Kinematic Design of Robot Manipulators.- Computer Vision and Image Processing.- A Graph-Theoretic Approach to 3-D Object Recognition and Estimation of Position and Orientation.- Industrial Computer Vision.- Integrating Vision and Touch for Grasping of an Object.- Spherical Shading Correction of Eye Fundus Image by Parabola Function.- Automatic Welding: Infrared Sensors for Process Control.- Computer-Aided Manufacturing.- Present State and Future Trends in the Development of Programming Languages for Manufacturing.- On-Line Identification and Suppression of Time Varying Machining Chatter in Turning Via Dynamic Data System (DDS) Methodology.- Microprocessor and Programmable Controller Based Industrial Automation.- Production Scheduling Automation in an Aluminum Metal Products Plant.- Machinability Data Base Systems for Automated Manufacturing.- An Integrated Approach to Design, Implementation, and Testing of Digital System.- V. Local Area Networks, Databases, Graphics.- Implementing Priority Functions in Local Area Networks.- The Design and Implementation of a Distributed Database System.- A High Level Graphic Database for CAD.- A Graph-Theoretic Approach to the Hidden Line Elimination Problem.- Contributors.