Assembly planning and plan decomposition in an automated microrobot-based microassembly desktop station

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-92

  Fatikow, S ^a   Munassypov, R ^b   Rembold, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Birsk Branch of Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of Higher Education Bashkir State University   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Assembly plan accomposition; Assembly planning; Microassembly; Microrobotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; FACTORY AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

ASSEMBLY PLANNING; MICROROBOT BASED MICROASSEMBLY DESKTOP STATION (MMS); MICROROBOTICS;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0032002507     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008851409235     Document Type: Article

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