Mechatronics design for product enhancement

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-119

  Hewit, James R ^a   King, Tim G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active vision; Actuators; Automation; Design; Education; Mechatronics; Robotics; Sensors; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER VISION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PRODUCT DESIGN; SENSORS; SURGERY;

MECHATRONIC DESIGN; MECHATRONICS; PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0030172125     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3516.506147     Document Type: Article

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