Feature-based robot machining for rapid prototyping

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 213, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 451-459

  Song, Y ^a   Chen, Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Collision detection; Feature extraction; Robot machining; Tool path generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001346632     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954405991516921     Document Type: Article

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