Miniature Robots for a Desktop Flexible Micro Manufacturing System

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 6-12

  Aoyama, Hisayuki ^a   Iwata, Futoshi ^a   Sasaki, Akira ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

DESKTOP FLEXIBLE MICRO MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; MINIATURE ROBOTS;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 0030086188     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/37.482131     Document Type: Article

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