Curve tracking and reproduction by a robot with a vision system have broad
application in industry. This article describes tracking control using the
orthogonal decomposition control method. The data recorded in the tracking
procedure are pre-processed by the Kalman filtering algorithm. Thus, tracki
ng and reproduction of any kinds of regular and irregular smooth curves wit
h a high speed and a high accuracy are achieved. (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons
, Inc.