Reliability and flexibility - A mutually exclusive problem for robotic assembly?

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 343-347

  Wilson, Myra S ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

BEHAVIOR BASED ONLINE EXECUTION SYSTEM; FLEXIBILITY; HIGH LEVEL PLANNING SYSTEM; LOW LEVEL EXECUTION SYSTEM; RUNTIME EXECUTION SYSTEM; UNCERTAINTY; WORKCELL;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0030127470     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.488953     Document Type: Article

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