Automatic orienting of polyhedra through step devices

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 550-556

  Zhang, Ruiquan ^a   Gupta, K ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MOTION PLANNING;

ARBITRARY ORIENTATION; CENTER OF MASS; CONVEX POLYHEDRAL; CONVEYOR BELTS; INITIAL ORIENTATION; PRECOMPUTING; SENSORLESS; SLOW SPEED;

BELT CONVEYORS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

POLYHEDRA;

EID: 0031628950     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.677031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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