An optimum design for 3-D fixture synthesis in a point set domain

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 839-846

  Wang, Michael Yu ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixture synthesis; Form closure; Greedy algorithms; Workholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLAMPING DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

FIXTURE SYNTHESIS;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 0034472491     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.897795     Document Type: Article

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