CAD-based automated robot trajectory planning for spray painting of free-form surfaces

Industrial Robot

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 426-433

  Chen, Heping ^a   Sheng, Weihua ^a   Xi, Ning ^a   Song, Mumin ^b   Chen, Yifan ^c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Painting; Robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION PLANNING; PAINT SPRAYING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SURFACES;

FREE-FORM SURFACES; ROBOT TRAJECTORY PLANNING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ROBCAD;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 0036391035     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910210440237     Document Type: Article

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