A sensor used for measurements in the calibration of production robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 121-125

  Everett, Louis J ^a   Ives, Thomas W ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; LIGHT; PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; POSITION CONTROL; POSITION MEASUREMENT; SPHERES;

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; PRECISION SPHERES; PRODUCTION ROBOTS; ROBOT CALIBRATION; SHORT RANGE DEVICES;

SENSORS;

EID: 0030081121     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.481756     Document Type: Article

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