<title>Ocular Manipulator For Robotic Vision</title>

Abstract

An electro-optical subsystem which adds the X-Y random access motion and focus of human vision to robotics vision systems is described. The capabilities of the human eye and that of the new ocular manipulator to perform industrial inspection and solve character recognition problems are compared. Both the optical servo and computer control aspects of the subsystem are discussed. Applications to specific industrial problems requiring optical image manipulation are also described.