Automated modular fixture planning: Geometric analysis

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-15

  Wu, Y ^a   Rong, Y ^b   Ma, W ^b   LeClair, S R ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD CAM; Computer aided fixture design; Fixturing geometric analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FACTORY AUTOMATION; FIXTURES (TOOLING); GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AUTOMATED MODULAR FIXTURE PLANNING; COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL; FIXTURING GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0031994379     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-5845(97)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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