Modeling and controlling variation propagation in mechanical assemblies using state transition models

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 124-140

  Mantripragada, Ramakrishna ^a,b   Whitney, Daniel E ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

In process adjustments; Mechanical assembly; Modern control theory applied to mechanical assembly; Tolerance progagation in mechanical assemblies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

STATE TRANSITION MODELS;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0033078959     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.744608     Document Type: Article

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