Handbook on robot performance testing and calibration

This handbook is for all those involved in robot performance testing and calibration, and offers many new suggestions and practical guidelines, hints and advice. Finally it is material for a future revision of the standard ISO 9283 and the standardisation of robot calibration. Besides the handbook itself, this volume contains the following reference documents; - Measurement Tools for Robot Testing. - Performance Criteria and Related Test Methods (IRIS-DIS 9283, Part 1). An entirely new suggestion for an international standard on robot performance testing (not contained in the latest version of ISO 9283; 1998) and being is aimed at improving precision of criteria and test-procedure definition, at improving reliability, precision and reproducibility of data evaluation, and at improving user assistance in implementing the criteria defined. - Standardisation of Calibration (IRIS-DIS 9283, Part 2).