Tuning robotic part feeder parameters to maximize throughput

Assembly Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 216-221

  Gudmundsson, Dadi ^a,b   Goldberg, Ken ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; FEEDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; THROUGHPUT;

POISSON ARRIVAL PROCESS; ROBOTIC PARTS FEEDERS;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

EID: 0032680827     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445159910280083     Document Type: Article

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