Automatic selection of fixturing surfaces and fixturing points for polyhedral workpieces

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 833-841

  Ding, Dan ^b   Liu, Yun Hui ^a,b   Wang, Michael Yu ^a,b,c   Wang, Shuguo ^d  

^a IEEE

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fixture design; Form closure; Grasping; Precise localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DESIGN; HEURISTIC METHODS; INDEXING (MATERIALS WORKING); QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; THEOREM PROVING;

FIXTURING POINT; FORM-CLOSURE CONDITION; OPTIMAL FIXTURING POINT; POLYHEDRAL WORKPIECES; WORKPIECE POSITIONAL ERROR;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 0035707089     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.976003     Document Type: Article

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