An overview of the University of Louisiana robotic gripper system project

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-84

  Kolluru, Ramesh ^a   Valavanis, Kimon P ^b   Smith, Stanford ^c   Tsourveloudis, Nikos ^b  

^a Center for Advanced Computer Studies   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

Author keywords

controlaf; grippers; limp material; suction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY CONTROL; GARMENT MANUFACTURE; GRIPPERS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MANIPULATORS; MATERIALS HANDLING; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; TEXTILES;

AUTOMATED HANDLING SYSTEM; ROBOTIC GRIPPER SYSTEM;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

EID: 0036216850     PISSN: 01423312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0142331202tm050oa     Document Type: Article

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