Sensory Systems for Robot Control: Conference Report Available to Purchase

A symposium on this subject was held at the New Connaught Rooms in London on 21 October 1992. Twelve papers were presented and about 30 delegates attended. All but one of the papers came from a university: Brunei, East London, Ghent in Belgium, Greenwich, Nottingham, Salford, Sheffield and Surrey. The exception was a paper from Advanced Robotics Research Ltd. It was significant, and widely commented on, that the papers were virtually all from academic institutions while the delegates were all from industry. Methods and systems described in the papers were in various stages of development; none was commercially available or in industrial use. In fact, in many cases the objective behind presenting a paper at this symposium was to canvass industrial sponsorship to enable the project to continue or to bring it to market.