Automated packing systems - A systems engineering approach

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 533-544

  Whelan, Paul F ^a,b   Batchelor, Bruce G ^c  

^a IEEE

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CONTAINERS; FACTORY AUTOMATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PALLETS; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED PACKING SYSTEMS; SHAPE ORDERING; SHAPE ORIENTATION;

PACKAGING;

EID: 0030242522     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.531901     Document Type: Article

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